When did you know...?

[Nom vs. Vain]

When did you know... that you were hooked on TCTC? What paragraph, sentence, word.... trapped you into reading 7 and soon to be 10 books?

[iQuestor]

There are many for me, but the first one was the boat ride where Covenant was transported to Revelstone by Saltheart Foamfollower.

"Ahh Unbeliever, with three words you will break my heart..."

(I dont have LFB with me, but that is the gist. )


Also:

Mhoram realizing the oath of peace was the reason the new Lords were not as strong as the Old Lords;

Saltheart carrying Covenant through Hotash Slay

Andelain. DiamondDraught. Waymeets. The Unfettered. Ranyhyn.

Learning Hile Troy was from TC's World, and the battle scenes in TPTP and TIW, and reading on every passage to learn if TC was dreaming or not!!!

Ranyhyn rearing to Covenant.


there are so many!

[Buckarama]

I think it was about the time the bloodguard were introduced.

[Fist and Faith]

I think it was about the time the bloodguard were introduced.

That's what first got me, too. Finding out they didn't sleep, were immortal... Coming out of Morinmoss without being exhausted like everyone else (except the Ranyhyn) was. Then when they were knocking arrows aside with the backs of their hands, snapping Ramen rope in half just by pulling...

[Avatar]

"Say to the Council of the Lords, and to the High Lord Prothall son of Dwillian, that the uttermost limit of their span of days upon the Land is seven times seven years from this present time. Before the end of those days are numbered, I will have the command of life and death in my hand. And as a token that what I say is the one word of truth, tell them this: Drool Rockworm, Cavewight of Mount Thunder, has found the Staff of Law, which was lost ten times a hundred years ago by Kevin at the Ritual of Desecration. Say to them that the task appointed to their generation is to regain the Staff. Without it, they will not be able to resist me for seven years, and my complete victory will be achieved six times seven years earlier than it would be else."

--A

[Usivius]

at that time in my life, it was simply following a character who was so outside his own reality (because of others and himself), suddenly moved to a different reality where the social rules are different.. and don't judge. That transition from earth to Land and meeting Elena was all that was needed for me at that time. (her eventual rape at his hands nearly crushed me... and still, I understood it )

[A Gunslinger]

When the tale The tale of Jehannum was told. Creepy!

[Nom vs. Vain]

Are you all kidding me? Why would any of you read that far if you werent hooked yet... I was hooked since "Golden Boy" not the chapter but the poem about the boy with feet of clay... I don't think I could of made it through all of TC whinning and crying about how he didn't know how to use his power.... blah blah blah... without having read that poem first... If not that then his SRD's description of the court house... with the steps that were polished against human need... Why read so much of a book where you weren't hooked?

[Nom vs. Vain]

Avatar I can see where your coming from... I just think everyone else may need to re-evaluate or re-read LFB....

[A Gunslinger]

Are you all kidding me? Why would any of you read that far if you werent hooked yet... I was hooked since "Golden Boy" not the chapter but the poem about the boy with feet of clay... I don't think I could of made it through all of TC whinning and crying about how he didn't know how to use his power.... blah blah blah... without having read that poem first... If not that then his SRD's description of the court house... with the steps that were polished against human need... Why read so much of a book where you weren't hooked?

I started out hooked, then he raped Lena. This act took me out of the game...in fact, the 1st time I tried reading the books (8th grade) this made me put it down. When I returned a few years later, I forced my way through and was then hooked by Jehannum.

[ur-monkey]

The bit with the hypothetical 'Fundemental Question of Ethics' was intriguing enough to get me hooked, or perhaps when Covenant says to the blind beggar something like, 'Come on, old man. We didn't make the world,' to which the beggar replied, 'Did we not?'

But I didn't fall in love with the story until the Wraiths of Andelain.

[spacemonkey]

For me it's entirely different,my own personal life, for the most part,i have always been the undesired outsider and treated with utter disdain.My teenage years were very dark,not by choice but by other's perceptions of my early disability(i wear two hearing aids,HUH?? WHAT DID YOU SAY????<grinning>)also my early years were marked with horrible tragedies,seemingly one after the other,so within the first half page of LFB, [quote]But to himself he responded,Ashamed?Ashamed? His face contorted in a wild grimace,Beware!Outcast unclean! I understood TC in a rather personal way,I knew what this felt like,i knew intimately the rage that instantanuosly erupts when confronted in such a crappy way and treated like something less than dirt.
From there on out I read on knowing i had some weird connection to TC, and later understanding the feeling of futility of great,enormous power and the inability to wield it,(For those of you who haven't read the Who,Who Thread,I'm a bodybuilder and very strong)So, yes i do have the power to hurt them but to what ends?What will it gain me?In the end nothing. I understood how TC felt up until he rapes Lena,that was the vast difference between he and I.Although i do have the physical power to respond i withhold and let the old Wiccan proverb catch up to them.(Be careful in what you do,as it will return to you seven-fold)In most cases it did and i was the one who witnesses their own private down fall.SO,before the first page was even played out i was definately hooked.I still remain hooked after reading the series 12 times completely.Sorry to have such an eloborate answer BUT, you did indeed ask!

[Avatar]

We like elaborate answers.

I must say, I liked the poem too. "These are the pale deaths..."

But I don't see any contradiction in having to read a long way before getting hooked. Hell, I just read a book recently where I really wasn't enjoying it for the first 100 pages or so. Then it suddenly got good.

--A

[Cail]

I think it was about the time the bloodguard were introduced.

Yep. Bannor was what sold me on the story. I was pissed when I started TWL and realized that Bannor was long dead.

[spacemonkey]

NAH!!!! Bannor ain't dead, he just went home!!!!! I mean face it you CAN'T KILL BANNOR!!! He's total B.A. so death's got nothing on him!!!!

[Kil Tyme]

For me, just reading the book's back cover about how a guy finds himself in an alternate reality was enough to start me to get hooked, but to quote iquestor...

There are many for me, but the first one was the boat ride where Covenant was transported to Revelstone by Saltheart Foamfollower.

That's exactally the period in the book when I Knew for sure I was gunna be hooked.

Following all the sad trials and events of TC and Atairan up to this point, to now meet this laughing and happy giant fellow full of stories and humor, that's when I knew I was hooked.

Foamfollower's question caught him wandering. "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"

Absently, he replied, "I was, once."

"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"

Covenant folded his arms against the gunwales and rested his chin on them. As the boat moved, Andelain opened constantly in front of him like a bud; but he ignored it, concentrated instead on the plaint of water past the prow. Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."

"Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more – with one word you will make me weep."

[Usivius]

thanks for the quote Kil. Brings back how potent th writing truly is in such a few short words...

[ur-monkey]

Yeah, that is a great quote.

[A Gunslinger]

That is a damn fine moment.

[balon!]

I realized that i loved TC when Nom went berserk in the bowles of Braithairrealm.