I MOST STRENUOUSLY OBJECT!! I did not say "My favourite epic fantasy till date is Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant." Mine was the second comment.
I know if one digs, one may discern who said what in the trail below, but Ritu likes TC, not me. George A P.S. Sorry for the top post. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Decline in SF? > ritu wrote: > > > > G. D. Akin wrote: > > > > > > My favourite epic fantasy till date is > > > > Stephen Donaldson's _ The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant_. > > > > > > ----------------------------------- > > > > > > You must've seen something in there that I didn't. I easily > > > put that series > > > on the "not recommended for any reason" list. > > > > Let us see: excellent characters, a fascinating premise, a detailed, > > alluring world and, imo, one of the best denouenments in a fantasy > > series. Also, I enjoy Donaldson's prose :) > > > > There is very little about these series that I don't like [and no, > > Covenant doesn't irritate me], I even remember regretting the years > > these books were undiscovered by me. :) > > However, I rarely recommend the series to people [you'd notice I just > > mentioned it- didn't tell Gautam that he should read it]. I have > > discovered that very few people react to these books the way I do - most > > people I have met/talked to find these books rather bleak and depressing > > and most of them find TC to be an irritating, whining git. :) > > I read the first one, and didn't see what my fantasy-reading peers saw > in it. (This was in high school.) I think my biggest problem with it > was that TC was irritating and whining. I didn't know the word "git" at > that time. :) I didn't want to be reading a book about someone I just > wanted to slap upside the head and say to, "Get OVER it, man!" or > something similar. I had enough such people to deal with just being in > high school, and slapping *them* upside the head wasn't really an > option, either. > > I think that whatever else you enjoy might not be an indicator of > whether or not you'll enjoy TC. I could be wrong, though. > > I also never really got into Eddings. I got his first book out of the > library, and it was OK. They didn't have the second book. I bought > it. I never got more than about 10 pages into it. It's still with me, > waiting to be read. I've had friends who were *totally* into Eddings, > and friends who didn't have patience with his stuff. All a matter of > taste, and taste can be tricky. > > The fantasy I've been recommending is Elizabeth Moon's. The neat thing > about it, IMO, is that it goes into a little bit of detail about things > you have to think about when you're an army on the march (like digging > latrines every night) and what *really* happens when you have a > battle-wound. Not in horrific detail, but not pretending that stuff > doesn't matter. It was the most realistic fantasy I'd read when I read > it. (I starting to read it almost by accident, but that's another > story.) > > Julia > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
