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Summary: Tolkien? Tolkien who?
Review: That's right. I can honestly say I enjoyed this book more than Tolkien. There's nothing wrong with The Lord of the Rings, I love it too. But there just weren't as many characters in it to connect with as there are in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Covenant is a leper who is forced into a world of absolute beauty, as cruel a thing as you can do to someone inflicted with this unfortunate disease. Even worse, he nearly kills himself saving The Land, and when he is finally allowed to return, he finds that the Land has been defiled. To quote from the book: "The cruelest thing that you can do to a man who has lost everything is to give him back something broken." This sums up the feel of the entire second trilogy. This series is quite simply the best piece of fiction ever written. Better than The Lord of the Rings, better than the Elric series (by Moorcock), and even better than, dare I say it, Star Wars. I gave this book a five, but that's just because I can't give it a 500.
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Summary: A fantastic ending to a brillant series
Review: The development and change undergone by the central character is what is so remarkable about this series. Strip away the incredible setting and fantastic story sub-plots, and you'll find that this is a remarkable twist on the human condition and sprit. The story could not work without the central character as a leper, and the way in which all aspects of the story line are concluded is one of the most satisfying I've ever read. These are deep novels, not shallow tales, which ultimately make the best reading.
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Summary: A heartfelt tale
Review: The final book of the 2nd Chronicles does not fail to excite. This book is nothing but amazing. This book is full of so much emotion that it is hard not to feel it inside yourself. This book does take a while to read, only because it is so deep. You have to focus totally on what is happening to realize the vision that Donaldson is trying to invoke in all of us.Covenant, Linden, and some of the Giants return to the Land in an effort to destroy the ruthless Clave and eventually take a path that leads them to Lord Foul himself. This book is a GREAT ending to the series. Questions are finally answered and plots finally come to a close. Sadness is something that runs rampant through this book. Be prepared for your heart to go out to one of the most troubled heros in the fantasy genre.
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Summary: THE LAND IS GONE!!
Review: The first trilogy developed a 'LAND' that was as perfect a setting for a fantasy book that has ever been written. The characters were developed to be a part of the 'LAND'. In this trilogy the 'LAND' was destroyed. I kept waiting for the 'LAND' to be restored. Thomas remained as a perfect anti-hero. I missed the Lords.
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Summary: Haiku Review
Review: The Land is restored;
Great wrap up to both series.
Points are ground to dirt.
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Summary: Well-written series weakened by a whiney hero
Review: The only real flaw in Donaldson's six volume Thomas Covenant series is the hero, Thomas Covenant. Covenant is a leper is the "real world" who inexplicably gets transported to the "Land", an idyllic world of tree huggers threatened by the nasty Lord Foul. Fortunately, Covenant's white gold wedding becomes a talisman of almost unlimited power in the Land. Unfortunately, Covenant is effectively crippled by his own moral and ethical weaknesses, and therefore is reluctant to use this power. In short, he is unwilling to be a "hero", even though the Land is doomed without him. I constantly felt like slapping him to stop him from feeling sorry for himself and do something, but pages would go by as Covenant would let his friends down rather than live up to his responsibilities. Very good book, great settings, but a very unappealing central character.
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Summary: My initiation into reading
Review: The title of this last book in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenantis gives a different idea of the ending of this book, than conceived in the book. It is brilliant that Mhoram's assertion to Covenant in the very first book of the six is the crux from which the ending is created. It stinks of an author who can start a myriad of ideas, then complete them all by the end of the book so that the whole plot is finally disclosed, everything making sense. The cleansing of Thomas in the Banefire is one of the pinnacles heading many highlights in this book. These were the first Sci-Fi books, First and Second Chronicles, that I had read. I've since read others, including Tolkein and Feist, and though they may be of similar merit to my mind, none surpass the intimacy felt with Donaldson's story and its characters.
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Summary: Maybe the second series surpasses the first.
Review: There is so much to like in The Second Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant. Linden Avery is a totally believable and ( for me ) sympathetic character. I like Vain, the Sandgorgons, the meeting with Elena in Andelain; that tears my heart out every time. I like the Bloodgaurd's admonition to Linden, "You must give him succour. We see that he holds you in his heart". I like the camorra for the Giants at the end of "The Wounded Land". Strangely, I like the Second Chronicles more than the First, even though, yes, I realize that events in the first trilogy have big consequences in the second. The six books that comprise the Thomas Covenant novels stand out as the best that sf/fanatsy has to offer. I put them up there with Frank Herbert's 'Dune' and that is no mean company to be in.
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Summary: I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happened
Review: These two series is by far the greats works of fantasy the world has ever seen. Thomas Covenant is amazing in how he denies his love for The Land for so long, hating what they did to him, bringing him to a world of incredibly beauty, and him, a leper with no love for anything, and then, when the need arises, gives his own live so that The Land might continue. Thomas Covenant is a man to admire. The way this series is developed is amazing. The depth of thought put into this series inspires awe. If I was to be placed on a desert island, I would take with me these two series.
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Summary: An Incredible Conclusion
Review: This has got to be one of the most incredible conclusions to a fantastic series ever created. While a fan of much of Science Fiction/Fantasy this is a series of books that will always be unique and separate. This book has everything and brings the whold six-book series to a conclusion that was brilliant and fantastic. While, I must admit, the book The One Tree is somewhat long-winded, it sets up this book perfectly and so the conclusion is everything you could want in this series. Don't read this if you've skipped the preceding books but if you've read the series this is incredible.
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