What's the most unsettling part of the Chronicles?

[stormrider]

Hey, now. I'm a misogynist, and I like Linden.

Hah! Joke or not, I shall use this against you and all Linden-lovers forevermore! Well... I would if it weren't for the fact that I'll probably forget about it within the next 3 hours.

[emotional leper]

Hey, now. I'm a misogynist, and I like Linden.

Hah! Joke or not, I shall use this against you and all Linden-lovers forevermore! Well... I would if it weren't for the fact that I'll probably forget about it within the next 3 hours.

Well, I can't be a Misanthrope without being a Misogynist, now can I?

[stormrider]

Ahhh. Now that's solid logic.

[emotional leper]

Ahhh. Now that's solid logic.

Yep. It stops the raving female masses in their tracks every time.

[lucimay]

whut duz?


hey! stormrider...LOVE the Alex avatar!!!

[Rivenrock]

1. The Community of Retribution members putting their hands in the fire. Including children. Yeesh.

Right with you there. Plus:

2. Joan's taste for blood.
3. The Elena/Covenant romance theme...ick factor nine! This (along with the first Gap novel, the exaggerated objectification of Terisa in Mirror of Her Dreams) is one of the things that always makes me hope that in the years since he wrote these books that Donaldson managed to get himself some therapy to deal with his warped view of women.

Seriously, did the guys mother breastfeed him till he was fifteen while periodically locking him in a cupboard?

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[amanibhavam]

1. The Community of Retribution members putting their hands in the fire. Including children. Yeesh.

Right with you there. Plus:

2. Joan's taste for blood.
3. The Elena/Covenant romance theme...ick factor nine! This (along with the first Gap novel, the exaggerated objectification of Terisa in Mirror of Her Dreams) is one of the things that always makes me hope that in the years since he wrote these books that Donaldson managed to get himself some therapy to deal with his warped view of women.

Seriously, did the guys mother breastfeed him till he was fifteen while periodically locking him in a cupboard?

I do not think so. He just knows the dark recesses of the human soul very well. Not all of us dare go in those places even in broad daylight...

[emotional leper]

1. The Community of Retribution members putting their hands in the fire. Including children. Yeesh.

Right with you there. Plus:

2. Joan's taste for blood.
3. The Elena/Covenant romance theme...ick factor nine! This (along with the first Gap novel, the exaggerated objectification of Terisa in Mirror of Her Dreams) is one of the things that always makes me hope that in the years since he wrote these books that Donaldson managed to get himself some therapy to deal with his warped view of women.

Seriously, did the guys mother breastfeed him till he was fifteen while periodically locking him in a cupboard?

I do not think so. He just knows the dark recesses of the human soul very well. Not all of us dare go in those places even in broad daylight...

And some of us run screaming into them with boxes of chocolates, shouting, "ME LOVAH ZIGGY STAHDUST! MAKE YOU FISH BOWL SOUP!" and then wonder why those dark recesses run away screaming...

*sniff*

I'm so lonely.

[Rocksister]

Maybe someday SRD will write an autobiography so his fans can know where the dark recesses originate from. I'll be on pre-order...........

[emotional leper]

Maybe someday SRD will write an autobiography so his fans can know where the dark recesses originate from. I'll be on pre-order...........

I wonder what those novels Covenant wrote about after coming back to reality were about, and if they were him telling the story of what had happened to him. Didn't SRD always plan to write a second chronicles, and didn't he originally intend for first and second chronicles to be seven books?

...

I smell... Conspiracy?

[goatlips]

So many awesomely effed up moments mentioned in this thread. A couple that I didn't see mentioned:

- Vandals smearing excrement and urinating in the hut that contains Covenant's office.

The next two seem rather subtle, but these were really effed up moments for me:

- Covenant's "bargain" in TPTP, where he manipulated Elena into assuming his perceived responsibilities.

And one item that made me dislike Covenant's character more than anything:

- Covenant's refusal to grant Honninscrave the caamora he requested for Cable Seadreamer.

Such a scumbag move...he wasn't going to bring down the Arch of Time by cremating the poor mute giant's body. A huge betrayal, in my opinion.

[Worm of Despite]

1) TC's story about the leper who slit his wrists. Not sure why, but nothing (except broken bones) disgusts me more than someone cutting their wrists. Just way too personal, I guess--like medieval battles or something.

2) TC biting into the razor-bun.

3) Tull’s Tale/the slaughter at Coerci. Nothing particularly grossed me out—just the pure wrongness of it.

[High Lord Tolkien]

3) Tull’s Tale/the slaughter at Coerci. Nothing particularly grossed me out—just the pure wrongness of it.

The worst part about that was that the Raver succeeded.
I expected the Lords to show up and save the day.
Many Giants would have been killed but somewhere, most of the Giants would still be alive, hidden or something.
But no.
I was stunned.

[Worm of Despite]

Yeah. It's as if one corrupted giant nullified their belief system or turned their conscience inside out, so they just dropped everything and waited to be slaughtered.

[earthbrah]

Dang, so many good ones already listed, what to dooo...

I'll list three of my own that haven't been said yet:

1. Foamfollower deciding to give the last of the hurtloam to that Cavewight. That one still bothers me.

2. The Waynhim giving Covenant some of their blood which gave him super speed. Loved that one.

3. And he used that super speed to run all the way to Revelstone, and engage in the soothtell. Man, that bloodletting of his really rocked me. I read the Second Chronicles before any others, and this scene really stuck out as the sickest--that was, until I read about the Giants just sitting there allowing their heads to be exploded. Jeezus!!!

4. Of course, the very sight of Marid was enough to chill my bones. I'm so visual, it messed with me, gave me "Children of the Corn" style nightmares!

Ok, that's four. So I messed up, SHUT UP.

[SGuilfoyle1966]

I am now finished with The One Tree, again.
Moment that still makes me shake, after knowing what happened the first time,
When the command planted by Linden takes hold, and Covenant says just one word.
"Nom."

It's like, holy crap, what is she THINKING?

[amanibhavam]

Actually I think that was a stroke of a genius. A desperately ingenious solution to a desperate situation.

[earthbrah]

I'm re-reading TIW right now. Ahamkara, or Warhaft Hoerkin, was a chilling scene. The Warhaft who was found by Hyrim, Korik, Shetra et. al. in the Sarangrave. He was dead, but was not. His skin was cold as ice, yet he still breathed. And his gurgling, moaning voice...dude, freaky

[Zenlunatic]

Hmmm...top 3 "Dude" moments...

1) Hile Troy freaking out and killing the Bloodguard Ruel in Doriendor Corishev

2) Little Pietten's love of blood

3) The Raven possessing Linden at the end of WGW