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A Fellow Reader.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 3:13 am
by Serpreme
Hello all,i am a new and big fan of Thomas Covenant...but after reading his the first trilogy i cant seem to bring myself to read the second after checking out the first couple chapters. It just feels to me my little world in the Land has been lost.....3000 years is a long time and well....everyones gone and such but what i want to know is....is it still the same land we all know?
Does the lords have any impact? i feel lost when i read the book =(
Also have any of you read A song of Ice and Fire?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 9:13 am
by amanibhavam
Do not refrain from reading the Second Chronicles. It's worth every effort, believe me. It is a different world, yes, but later on you will have Giants! plenty of them! and you will visit strange lands with strange folks inhabiting them, and in the end... but I will not spoil it.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 9:20 am
by Vain
That's like NOT reading the Third Chrons
Read them - you'll love them and hate them
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 12:13 pm
by Damelon
Read the Second Chronicles. What happened to the Land certainly made me mad.
But you would be missing out on some wonderful scenes if you don't read them.
Read it!!
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 1:04 pm
by Romeo
The second Chronicles are just as good as the first. The fact that the beauty of the Land has been marred gives strong fuel to the story, and to the development of the characters. If Covenant went back to the Land and everything was hunky-dory, you'd have fifteen hundred pages of him sitting in Andelain twiddling his thumbs. <grin>
"You will not fail, however he may assail you. There is also love in the world."
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 3:35 pm
by Guest
=( ya but i liked the new saved land =( we didnt even get to enjoy it before 20 pages later its 3000 years and its gone! =(
But i read the 3 books in 3 days so i think i'll give myself a break
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 8:52 pm
by danlo
Aside from some books in the Gap Saga, The One Tree is, imho, the best book SRD has ever written! (Hoping that will change when the 3rd Chrons appear!)
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 9:04 pm
by duchess of malfi
The Second Chronicles can be very painful in places -- what has happened to the Land is terrible. But there is still a lot that is very worthwhile in reading them! The scene set in Seareach near the end of TWL is truly beautiful. Makes me cry every single time I read it!
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 9:30 pm
by Sevothtarte
I put TWL aside after the first few chapters for some weeks. The changes to the Land, Linden, Sunder - I didn't like any of them. That's don't like as in annoyed, not as in what an a**hole... still, I want to know what happens to him. The latter is the way I didn't like Covenant at the beginning of the First Chronicles.
Anyway, I'm glad I continued reading later, I like the Second Chronicles more than the First by now.
Read on, you won't be disappointed. It will hurt like it did in the First Chronicles, most probably even more, but it's worth it.
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 3:32 am
by Damelon
danlo wrote:The One Tree is, imho, the best book SRD has ever written!
I agree. The most interesting bad guy in the Chronicles is in
The One Tree.
Best Covenant books
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 6:37 am
by Guest
I agree as well -- One Tree was the shizzo (that's hip hop for 'best'
)
In fact, the whole 2nd chonicles was quite a bit better imho ... much more original and imaginative. If I had the film rights, I'd just jump into Wounded Land and do a prologue a la Fellowship of the first chronicles in 10 mins or so. Then, you get dropped right into the Land's equivalent of post-nuclear-holocaust and away we go with something QUITE original and stunning. Hell and blood!