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rhondacrockettThe Land is back! The Land is back! The Land is BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!
Stephen Donaldson is writing more Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. :DDDD
I love these books. They were my first proper adult fantasy. Think kinda like Narnia, but with rape and madness and despair and white gold and leprosy. Love love LOVE! Three scenes in particular have stuck with me: from the Chronicles, Covenant, going crazy because he can't get back to the Land where he's left his friends in the middle of terrible danger, stumbles into a revival meeting, which doesn't help his sanity at all; from the Second Chronicles, as an uncomprehending Linden watches the members of a cult in the real world being controlled by Lord Foul sacrifice their hands to a bonfire, Covenant screams, "Foul! Even children?"; and also from the Second Chronicles, Linden's experience of the real horror of the Sunbane, the Fertility cycle. I repeat: love love LOVE!
So of course, when I spotted a NEW BOOK IN THE SERIES, I had to get it. After reading seven-odd chapters standing in the shop ^.^ This is billed as the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. So it will be a trilogy of trilogies. There's something satisfying about that.
In other news I am currently sitting at the computer reserved for the duty supervisor (it's ok, the duty manager said I could have it) and it feels most peculiar. The angle on the rest of the room is all wrong and I feel tucked away from people. I'm also a little nervous about irate members of staff accosting me. Or worse - students asking me for assistance! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! Well, the students do that anyway. I dunno, I must have a helpful-looking face or something. Or I look old and knowledgable about these things. Or just old. Whatever it is, I keep getting people asking me how the computers work. And not just older people, who maybe aren't familiar with computers; it's people my age and younger o.O'
I had dinner last night with LJ (that's Lorna Jane, not LiveJournal lol), Ruth and Francesca last night. I haven't seen Fran in years. She seems fine, the same as I remember her.
(Remember how nervous I was about students asking me for help? It just happened. Twice. IN A ROW!)
Anyway, Ruth and LJ were on fine form; despite claiming that they were tired and had loads of work on, Fran and I could barely get a word in edgeways. And we all tried on LJ's engagement ring. You know, just in case we never got one of our own lol! Nah, it was more like, "Hey, you have a cool piece of jewellry, mind if I try it on?" It was quite heavy. One large diamond, and four little bitty ones around it, set in gold. It was nice but it wasn't very showy.
On American politics, because it seems that everyone has to say something about it, well, I predicted that Bush would get it but that it would be close. *shrugs* It's no skin off my nose. Suck it up and get on with it.
ANYWAY, to repeat the good news, THE LAND IS BACK!
And now I'm going to post this and run away before any other students can grab me for help!
Stephen Donaldson is writing more Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. :DDDD
I love these books. They were my first proper adult fantasy. Think kinda like Narnia, but with rape and madness and despair and white gold and leprosy. Love love LOVE! Three scenes in particular have stuck with me: from the Chronicles, Covenant, going crazy because he can't get back to the Land where he's left his friends in the middle of terrible danger, stumbles into a revival meeting, which doesn't help his sanity at all; from the Second Chronicles, as an uncomprehending Linden watches the members of a cult in the real world being controlled by Lord Foul sacrifice their hands to a bonfire, Covenant screams, "Foul! Even children?"; and also from the Second Chronicles, Linden's experience of the real horror of the Sunbane, the Fertility cycle. I repeat: love love LOVE!
So of course, when I spotted a NEW BOOK IN THE SERIES, I had to get it. After reading seven-odd chapters standing in the shop ^.^ This is billed as the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. So it will be a trilogy of trilogies. There's something satisfying about that.
In other news I am currently sitting at the computer reserved for the duty supervisor (it's ok, the duty manager said I could have it) and it feels most peculiar. The angle on the rest of the room is all wrong and I feel tucked away from people. I'm also a little nervous about irate members of staff accosting me. Or worse - students asking me for assistance! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! Well, the students do that anyway. I dunno, I must have a helpful-looking face or something. Or I look old and knowledgable about these things. Or just old. Whatever it is, I keep getting people asking me how the computers work. And not just older people, who maybe aren't familiar with computers; it's people my age and younger o.O'
I had dinner last night with LJ (that's Lorna Jane, not LiveJournal lol), Ruth and Francesca last night. I haven't seen Fran in years. She seems fine, the same as I remember her.
(Remember how nervous I was about students asking me for help? It just happened. Twice. IN A ROW!)
Anyway, Ruth and LJ were on fine form; despite claiming that they were tired and had loads of work on, Fran and I could barely get a word in edgeways. And we all tried on LJ's engagement ring. You know, just in case we never got one of our own lol! Nah, it was more like, "Hey, you have a cool piece of jewellry, mind if I try it on?" It was quite heavy. One large diamond, and four little bitty ones around it, set in gold. It was nice but it wasn't very showy.
On American politics, because it seems that everyone has to say something about it, well, I predicted that Bush would get it but that it would be close. *shrugs* It's no skin off my nose. Suck it up and get on with it.
ANYWAY, to repeat the good news, THE LAND IS BACK!
And now I'm going to post this and run away before any other students can grab me for help!
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Date: 2004-11-05 12:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-05 02:14 pm (UTC)Be warned: sometimes his style can be pretty florid and he likes to use big obscure words. The dialogue of the people of the Land can seem stilted; you have to remember you're dealing with folk from another world so it stands to reason that they're not gonna have the same speech patterns. The philosophy can also be hard to grasp; I still haven't figured out what Covenant was talking about at the end of the Second Chronicles.
But if you can be ok with that and let him carry you away, well... :D It's a rush.
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Date: 2005-07-06 11:52 am (UTC)Hmm, having read an interview with the author recently, I feel I ought to warn you: the hero does something pretty despicable in the very first book. (Apparently, people have felt compelled to go up to the author and tell him they threw his book across the room at that point.) I originally read the books out of order, so I knew about it before I read it, and I got to see the consequences and how Covenant takes responsibility for what he did. I can't tell you what exactly he does, cos it spoils a major plot point, but just to let you know.
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Date: 2004-11-05 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-05 02:04 pm (UTC)XDDDDDD
I take it you mean these covers?
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0747532745.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0747538484.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
E-mail me and we'll sort out the details!