Audio Books Update: "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" I'm happy to report that, after much to-ing and fro-ing, Ballantine Books (now a small subsidiary of PenguinRandomHouse) has agreed to renew Scott Brick's license for audio book versions of Covenant 1-3. In exchange, he has agreed to...

Bad new for US readers holding out for the paperback release of The War Within - there won't be one. From SRD's New page: Berkley, the publisher of THE WAR WITHIN (Book Two of "The Great God's War," has decided not to release the book in paperback. The sales of TWW in hardcover, and of SEV...

SRD at one point said that he was allowing for - or perhaps even contracted for - 18 months between books, but "may not need that long". It was 17 months between SD (Nov '17) and TWW (Apr '19). 18 months from April '19 puts us at October '20. So if he's making good progress on book 3, June...

The 'world-building' - which Donaldson all but abandoned for the Last Chronicles - is at its most considered, for Donaldson. I'm a bit frustrated that there's no map. I suppose it's not crucial to the story - the text gives the general geographical relationships between locations - but it would hel...

Agreed. Yes, I think all will be resolved. At least, I hope so. If not, I suspect the resolution will be quite the opposite; I doubt there will be any middle ground. I don't think there will be much passage of time between Books 2 and 3 at all. I suspect 2 & 3 will feel more like a single story,...

Savor Dam wrote:I've considered Belleger and Amika to be cognates of belligerent and amicable, so I've mentally pronounced them accordingly.

Likewise.

But surely the enemy has made his presence known. The raiders are abroad and the monks of the great God are in the capital. Ah, that is true. I had forgotten about the attacks on the Southern ranches. It's a good point, and it would be hard to justify a "liberator of knowledge" nation tre...

Okay, I may be jumping the gun on this discussion, given that Book 2 only just came out, but I have an idea about book 3 that I wanted to share. I don't think this will happen ... but it's a possibility. SPOILERS AHEAD. The Magisters of the Last Repository are the bad guys. They hold all the knowled...

I think the book really picked up when Donaldson focused on Estie. She could have so easily been a cliched character, but Donaldson gave her nuances and complexities that elevated her above the stereotype. Obviously, there's a key matter that needs to be resolved with her in the third book. It will ...

I'm listening to The Obelisk Gate, the second volume of the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. Really liking this series so far.

Thanks for the link, Wayfriend! Very interesting!

(In other news, my UK edition of TWW arrived yesterday! Woo hoo! )

The audiobook for The War Within is now available at audible.

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-War-With ... 0525499180

Thank you for the kind words. I hope people find my comments useful. I finished The War Within last night. I liked it, and am looking forward to the concluding volume. It's quite different from his other work - I'd call it political intrigue in a fantasy setting. There is much scheming and plotting,...

I reread Seventh Decimate a few weeks ago, and I must say, I enjoyed it more the second time. I also empathized with Prince Bifalt more this time through - or rather, I found the story more balanced in his favour. The first time I read Seventh Decimate, Bifalt just seemed impossibly unwilling to see...

Sorry for the long delay in posting again. I'm a slow reader, and Real Life has been eventful (for good reasons, mostly). I'm 150 pages further in - now at page 350 of 576. The pace has really picked up, for the better. I wouldn't call it fast-paced, by any means, but there's a lot less discussion a...

Congrats, Kevin!

I also managed to purchase a Lettered when the book was first announced. No idea what letter though.

I've been waiting for decades for a small press to do a signed limited edition of this series. So looking forward to seeing it in a few months.

HBJ

I don't want to spoil anything, but I will say that it's not nearly as static as AATE was. We are shifting between locations, getting the narrative from different character points of view, and seeing more of this world. When reading AATE, the story felt stalled while all the dialogue between charact...

I'm 200 pages into The War Within - about one-third. My initial impressions are a bit mixed. Donaldson has introduced new characters and new locations, and has established the basic premise of the novel. But not a lot has actually happened. Most of the chapters so far have been characters meeting, t...

Yes, I wanted to show it was longer and just give people an idea of the physical dimensions of the book. SRD estimated that TWW was about 2.5 times the length of SD. The ARCs seem to confirm that estimate. I will start reading TWW today. I'm a slow reader, but will post spoiler free impressions when...

I received my ARC of The War Within a couple of days ago. Here are some pics showing it's size and text size compared to Seventh Decimate. www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/930/IMG_1783.JPG www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/930/IMG_1784.JPG www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/930/IMG_1785.JPG Text in ...