Enduring Covenant's agonies.

[Lord Zombiac]

Having read "aftermath" and "those who part" reminds me of the things I had to read with a sense of frustration.

I vividly remember enduring "the Power that preserves" and the fact that Covenant no longer had access to hurtloam to heal his leprosy.

I vividly remember enduring Covenant's Elohim imposed catatonia in "the One Tree."

What I had forgotten was how Covenant and Linden had fallen in love, and how Covenant had allowed his self pity to make him cold to her after the failure of the quest for the staff of law. The change that comes over Covenant after he faces Gibbon/Sheol in the hall of gifts is breathtaking. His sense of purpose and his vision is so well honed at this point. He has truly become the white gold wielder now.

And that Linden had cried out: "I love you" and made him pause before his personal cammora in the banefire, and that he returned from it clean shaven and ready to love her again was really awesome!

There is more suffering in this series and more glory in overcoming those agonies than any literature I have ever read.

I'm really psyched about this wonderful rediscovery of TC.

If I've said it once, I'll say it a million times: I had thought my childhood impressions of this book were complete hyperbole until I began to re-read these books and discovered, to my astonishment, that this saga is better than I had even thought it was!

[StarRider]

The change that comes over Covenant after he faces Gibbon/Sheol in the hall of gifts is breathtaking. His sense of purpose and his vision is so well honed at this point. He has truly become the white gold wielder now.

Agreed. He utters the greatest line of any book when he says. "I'm going to see Foul". "There are some things he doesn't understand." "I'm going to explain them to him."

Maybe not verbatim, but close enough. It still gives me goosebumps to this day.

[Barnetto]

If I've said it once, I'll say it a million times: I had thought my childhood impressions of this book were complete hyperbole until I began to re-read these books and discovered, to my astonishment, that this saga is better than I had even thought it was!

I'll second that.... I'd all but given up on fiction entirely until I rediscovered the Chronicles of the Unbeliever again a year ago....