--- Lalith Vipulananthan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Debbi wrote:
snippage
instead the reader is asked to
accept that a violent, brutal act is the first
impulse of a hero. :P
Well, this forms part of the fundamental reason why
the first Covenant
trilogy strays from the majority of
From: Doug Pensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did not like the first book of that series but thought the
second one was
OK. I hate books where the main character is pathetic. And
the woman in
that book was pretty pathetic in the first one. But she got
better in the
second...
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From: Lalith Vipulananthan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:51 PM
Subject: Thomas Covenant (was RE: Question about Spoilers)
George wrote:
Lalith Vipulananthan asked:
Just out of interest, how old
From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The second trilogy in more than one word:Even more depressing.
awful
Wah. Why did you find it awful? Did you also think that _The
One Tree_ was
almost entirely redundant?
To be honest, I don't remember. I read them a long
From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And I really like the Mirror of her Dreams two
(three?) books.
I did not like the first book of that series but thought the second one was
OK. I hate books where the main character is pathetic. And the woman in
that book was pretty pathetic in the
Horn, John wrote:
From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And I really like the Mirror of her Dreams two
(three?) books.
I did not like the first book of that series but thought the second one was
OK. I hate books where the main character is pathetic. And the woman in
that book was
George A wrote:
The first Covenant trilogy in one word:
Depressing.
The second trilogy in more than one word:Even more
depressing.
I didn't make it very far into the first trilogy for
that and other reasons.
--- Lalith Vipulananthan wrote
George wrote:
Lalith Vipulananthan asked:
Deborah wrote:
jumping in
I was ~25 when I read the first book, which I only
finished because a good friend had highly recommended
it. I nearly tossed it after the
rape-and-then-she-falls-in-love scenario, as that is
so far from real life that I couldn't stand it.
You did only read the
John Horn wrote:
From: G. D. Akin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first Covenant trilogy in one word:Depressing.
great
Agreed.
The second trilogy in more than one word:Even more depressing.
awful
Wah. Why did you find it awful? Did you also think that _The One Tree_ was
At 01:07 AM 3/14/2003 +, you wrote:
John Horn wrote:
From: G. D. Akin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first Covenant trilogy in one word:Depressing.
great
Agreed.
The second trilogy in more than one word:Even more depressing.
awful
Wah. Why did you find it awful? Did you
--- Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Deborah wrote:
jumping in
I was ~25 when I read the first book, which I only
finished because a good friend had highly
recommended it. I nearly tossed it after the
rape-and-then-she-falls-in-love scenario, as that
is so far from real life that I
Debbi wrote:
Hmm, well it *was* a long time ago...I'm not sure if I
learned that through conversation -- I really don't
recognize the other characters you named below (like
the one name, though!) -- it's entirely possible that
my friend discussed further storyline(s) in an effort
to
George wrote:
Lalith Vipulananthan asked:
Just out of interest, how old were you when you read these books?
In my early 30s.
Thus shooting a hole in one theory I'd developed with Ritu that age is a
determining factor in one's enjoyment of the Covenant books. Most of the
people I know who
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