This is a legendary Fantasy book. The world building is ok. The writing is overly descriptive, repetitive, and dry. Plot is predictable and bad. The obsessive talk of birds is interesting.

The sex stuff, for which this book is notorious, is EXTREMELY light--the fact that it became famous for having SM themes is mostly commentary on the times--there is very little erotica in this at all. Elric of Melniboné has infinitely more sexual content, for comparison--Gor is way more LotR then 50 shades...

I am glad I read this to say that I have, but I would never recommend this to anyone. ever.