Thomas Covenant

[Mytical]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chr...the_Unbeliever

It is a very difficult read, and a bit darker then most, but one of my favorite series. Just learned there are four I have not read yet..which is crazy..thought I had read them all!

[PepperElf]

eventually i'll read the series again.

although on a side note i was a weird kid. i once 'merged' thomas covenant with thomas english muffins to create (in my head at least) "Thomas Covenant English Muffins". i forget if i ever used then in one of my stories... Did the same for Dune with Duncan Idaho... and Dunkin Doughnuts - Duncan Doughnuts Idaho!


so i can't think of either character without thinking of the weird stuff i use to do to the names

[AnaKhouri]

I love Thomas Covenant! I mean, I don't love him, he's a whiny little bitch, I love all the other characters. I love the Ranyhyn and Saltheart Foamfollwer especially.

I have only read the first trilogy but have the next three on tap; I had to take a break.

Have you read Donaldson's Gap series (it's SF)? I read The Real Story and it pretty much made me hate myself for liking it so I have been afraid to go further.

[Mytical]

Not that I am aware of, I might have to. And yes Thomas is a whiny jerk, but Saltheart RULES.

[Pedersen]

In The Wounded Land, there exists a passage that is one of three in the history of my reading to have ever brought a tear to me eye. Without giving too much away, I hope, suffice to say that it was the most amazing [caamora in the series.

I still remember it well.

[Tsiyeria]

I really love this series. I actually enjoyed Covenant himself...The woman that got brought over in the second trilogy REALLY got under my skin.

Also, yes, Saltheart Foamfollower FTW.

[MoonCat]

I read that a long time ago. I remember I used to keep the dictionary handy because Donaldson had at least one word on every page that I wasn't familiar with.

[Kheldarson]

I tried reading it once...couldn't get into it. I might try again at some point though. But it kind of struck me as being like Tolkien in prose, and I can't read Tolkien either.

[Mytical]

In my opinion it is even a more challenging read then Tolkien. Maybe that is why I liked it better . At the time I had started reading it I was reading Shakespeare, and it wasn't quite as bad as that

[Kheldarson]

I actually like Shakespeare. Even in the original. But Tolkien...*shudders*

[Evandril]

That's one series I tried reading, but was very much rooting against thomas in the first book, and just couldn't bring myself to read any more Have heard it was a good series, just not for me