September 13, 2004
The Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant After more than 20 years, Stephen R. Donaldson returns to The Land. Be sure to check out the "preview" pop-up on the left-side of the page.
Just a guess, but I'd wager that Monkeys are much more likely than "the general population" to have read & enjoyed the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Right?
I loved those books. I can't wait for the next ones--should be soon, no?
However, that "trailer" was not the best I've ever seen.
Yeah I read 'em. He's awfully harsh with his characters, though.
Read his fist one many years ago. He's been near the head of my personal list of SF Authors Not To Bother With Again ever since.
I read the first of the Covenant series not too long ago. The story idea fascinated me, still does, in fact, but I just can't get past some of those absolutely dumbfuck character names, like Lord Drool. I mean, come on, work at it a little bit.
Heh! Lord Drool. Beautiful. Thomas Promise vs. the Spittle-King.
I loved the first trilogy, was less impressed with the second.
(I find voyages, like road movies, to be a little underwhelming, usually).
I believe the SF/fantasy author who dies with the longest multi-ology wins. Who's in the lead, I wonder? Pratchett?
Hey now, WTF is wrong with "Lord Drool"???
He should have called him Lord Black
if this is the guy i'm thinking of, yeah, i started reading the first book but never finished (don't think i finished anyway). so to make sure i'm on the right book here - main character is a dude with leprosy, gets transported to somewhere else, half a hand missing, won't admit to himself that anything he sees is real? or is this a different book i'm thinking of?
anyway it either didn't grab me or i never realized there was more than one book. but perhaps i ought to give it a try again...
That's the one CLF - he gets awfully wordy, but a lot of his ideas are neat.
Discworld isn't really a multi-ology because each book stands alone - even the running series don't necessarily have to be done in order, though it does help (esp for the later Watch books, which I have just re-devoured in a weekend orgy of Ankh-Morpockism). How many series in total? I think at least 5 now (Wizards, Witches, Watch, Personifications, and now Wee Free Men and it's sequel) not to mention all the stand alones.
Multi-ology ought to be saved for those crazy, epic, 800 pages a volume and still 6 bloody books and every single one a cliff-hanger to drive you batty. That said, I've really enjoyed Kate Elliot's door-stopping Crown of Stars series - really just one massive novel in six volumes, the last of which is coming out sometime in the next year.
My wife loves Chronicles. I think Donaldson is one of the crappiest fantasy writers to ever come down the pike, much less be taken seriously.
Still, a healthy marriage can support these little differences of opinion.
One of the crappiest rodgerd? I dunno, I figure it's Robert Jordan first, daylight second but that's me.
The crappiest IMHO is Moorcock. The fucker just phones his prose in.
But when Moorcock is good, he's exceptional.
Its just a pity he wrote about 7 million volumes of shit to drown it all out.
Has anybody had a chance to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell yet? I'm back and forth on whether to spend the money for hardcover, but it looks damned interesting.
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