I met Stephen Donaldson at a book signing in a small San Francisco book store back when the first trilogy was being published. For a long time my friend and I were the only ones there so we ended up talking to him. Finally another lady came up for his autograph on a book, but then proceeded to complain about the vocabulary in his novels.
"Look lady, if you can't figure out that roynish is a bad thing from the context the ur-vile was roynish then you probably won't get the rest of the book either."
I loved it.
Classic. Donaldson would be someone I would like to meet.
I liked the way his photo in the back of the book had him smoking a grit with a cloud of smoke. Seems like a cool guy.