The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)

Read this once. Started Fatal Revenant and realized I had to go back. Like all Donaldson material, it bears repeated readings well.

Pretty disappointing follow-up to one of my favorite series. One-dimensional characters, confusing story, and when did Donaldson start using profanity?

This is a wonderful series of books. I hope to read the next one, just have't been in the mood. I love Thomas convenant.

Tried to finish this one but just couldn't. The other Covenent books were some of my favorites but I just could not get into this one.

With a return to "The Land" we find Linden Avery once again transported to this twisted and mythical world. A land which seems to always call on the needed.

My return to Stephen R. Donaldson's world was at first confused. Again I asked myself, how many times will they ask "why?" and start to act and actualize and take control of their destiny's without fear ruling all things.

Just when I thought I would fail to turn another page, the story turns. My interest perked I continued unto the final page.

(See 2nd book, Fatal Revenant.

Holy crap! More Covenant! It's the Lord of the Rings with a ten cent vocabulary. And I need some camora.

I'm really trying to get into this book. Now I remember how hard it was to finish the other Thomas Covenent books. Boring doesn't cut it.....Slow and irrelevant. I don't think I can do it Cap'n....

An enjoyable introduction to this next series of Covenant books. There's a lot of exposition and not much happens action wise compared to other Covenant books, but there are three more to go.

I had forgotten how annoying Stephen Donaldson’s style is and how infuriating his characters are. Twenty years ago, maybe more, I read the first and second chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. I remembered liking them a lot, even looking forward to the sequels at that time, so I was pleased to see a new series appear. But my memory over the years has played me false. Once I started to read the new book, I remembered that Thomas Covenant (the character in the old books) drove me crazy with his indecisiveness, and Stephen Donaldson (the author) drove me crazy with his circumlocutions. Get to the point already! And now the new book is more of the same. The author saves up the bits of action and doles them out in small pieces, just enough to keep your interest. Well, no more! I give up! One star is my code for “I gave up before the end”. Sorry Stephen, not your best work.

Very talky and repetitive. I'm not sure though, that I wouldn't enact a Ritual of Desecration and have done with it...