In all honesty, I didn't finish reading this because I really struggled to get involved in Donaldson's intricately woven world, and eventually lost interest. Donaldson has really striven to create a rich and complex alternate world with realistic/flawed characters and a not too implausible unreality...
Donaldson takes a lot of flack for his thesaurus influenced prose style and his kind of cheesy names like "Lord Foul", but the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a remarkable creation. The idea of a protagonist who steadfastly refuses to believe in the reality of the fantasy world he finds himself in...
I never could decide if I liked this series, so I kept reading. It is strange, eerie and complex. It is not easy reading and no happy endings, for the most part.
I never could decide if I liked this series, so I kept reading. It is strange, eerie and complex. It is not easy reading and no happy endings, for the most part.
Is there a protagonist more unlikeable than Thomas Covenant? I've yet to find one in all my years of reading fantasy. In fact, I was so entirely off-put by this character that my antipathy towards him makes me unable to appreciate anything worthy the series might contain. He's a foul, despicable man...
I am (albeit slowly) removing my reviews from goodreads since it has become Amazon. For more on why that bothers me and should bother you, please go to my profile and also here:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/580861137What I learned from this book.Don’t agree to read the book Robert tells you i...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. Good. Much better than it should have been, damnit, given the over-sell job. This chap knows what he's doing with his metaphors and symbols (but can he stretch the 'leper' business for nine volumes?) and still has a fertile imagination for the details of his world...
A Swedish friend told me I just had to read this series - it was like Tolkien but better. I borrowed the first three, and dutifully read them, waiting for the point to dawn. It never did. Tolkien, to me, is all about the language and the names, and Donaldson's names ranged between uninspired and dow...
I first read this book when it was released in 1978 and was immediately captured by the rich and varied world that Donaldson had built. This series was a significant departure from other well known fantasy novels of this time as the characters faults and issues are detailed as the story moves along....
I first read this book when it was released in 1978 and was immediately captured by the rich and varied world that Donaldson had built. This series was a significant departure from other well known fantasy novels of this time as the characters faults and issues are detailed as the story moves along....
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