Personally, the Black Company series and the Garret PI series by Glen Cook are two of my favorite series, two and three after TCOTC. Very interesting view on fantasy. The first three books of the Black Company series are especially good. The later books are enjoyable, just not quite the same for me....

I always thought of Foul as having multiple reasons for the War in the first chronicles. First, he wanted to drive TC as close to despair as he could. Show TC the land and its people and then slowly destroy it in front of him. Also, Foul hated his prison and the Creator. If he can't escape his priso...

Foul came from outside the Reality of the Earth, not just from another place, so he wouldn't really be an extraterrestrial, I wouldn't think.

I've always gotten the impression that Foul thinks the mere act of escaping Earth (and by doing so, the destruction of such) would be the defeating of the Creator, not any actual struggle between the two. This makes sense to me, since if Foul is really just TC's dark side, his escaping would be TC's...

The way I looked at it was that the same amount of activity was happening regardless of the number of days allowed. So a two day Sun of Rain would have the same amount of water as a 7 day Sun of Rain, just coming down in a shorter amount of time. Looked at this way, the shorter span of the days woul...

My favorite is in TWL at the beginning. I can't find the actuall quote but it goes something like:

"What is the best way to hurt someone who has lost everything? Give him back something, broken." -TC

I thought it setup the second chronicles very well.

We hear about Kevin and how he died during the Ritual, but what of the other Lords of his Council? He couldn't have sent them into exile as well, if he had the Seven Wards would be unnecessary. The surviving Lords would have been able to keep teaching the other survivors. Some lore might have been l...