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| Title | : | Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #1) |
| Author | : | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | November 1989 by Del Rey / Ballantine (first published June 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Epic Fantasy |
Stephen R. Donaldson
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 3.72 | 41526 Users | 1570 Reviews
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He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero--Berek Halfhand--armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of Despiser, Lord Foul. Only...Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used! Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...
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| Original Title: | Lord Foul's Bane |
| ISBN: | 0345348656 (ISBN13: 9780345348654) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #1, Thomas Covenant #1 |
| Characters: | Thomas Covenant |
| Literary Awards: | Gandalf Award Nominee (1978) |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 41526 Users | 1570 ReviewsAppraise Epithetical Books Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #1)
A Swedish friend told me I just had to read this series - it was like Tolkien but better. I borrowed the first three, and dutifully read them, waiting for the point to dawn. It never did. Tolkien, to me, is all about the language and the names, and Donaldson's names ranged between uninspired and downright moronic. ("Berek Halfhand". Bleah.) It just grated.To add insult to injury, I managed to drop one volume into the bath while reading it, so I had to buy a new copy to return to him. I've notIt's not so much the story--in itself, this is a well-crafted fantasy world, complete with noble horse-riding peoples, stern giants, and delicate elven-folk on a quest of profound importance against an enemy of world-shattering magnitude--as much as Donaldson's overwrought prose that makes this series something of a drag to read. Donaldson wants his tale to carry all the mythic import of Tolkien, but he doesn't quite have the poetic flair that makes Tolkien's characters live and breathe for us.
Another series I did in one long weekend, this was probably one of the most influential series I read during high school. For some reason I absolutely hated the main character Thomas Conevenant (probably because he was an ass) and my one driving passion was to keep reading until he was killed off. Until of course the last book in the second series where I got over it and decided he should live and then he was killed off. As an interesting aside, this series made it remarkably less likely that I
A most repulsive main character,Verified PurchaseThis review is of the Kindle editionPublication date: May 16, 2012Publisher: Del ReyLanguage: EnglishASIN: B007WKEM9QThis book has a large number of fans. I, however, dislike it intensely. Early in this novel the main character, Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, rapes a young girl who has helped him and believed in him. I read on but never regained any sympathy for Covenant. Several reviewers say that readers like me don't understand the book, that
So many people love this series. Not sure why. The hero is a leperous (no, not lecherous) rapist and incredibly whiny. The bad guy is named Lord Foul, ferchissakes. I hated everything about the first few chapters of this book. Once the main character forced himself on a girl, and then the author tried to make it a sympathetic moment (for the perpetrator), I hurled it at the wall in disgust and never finished reading it. Right around the same level of arrogant sexist manhood as Piers Anthony.
The Thomas Covenant books have always held a special place in my heart. I freely admit that the series is not for everyone; the singular nature of the protagonist turns a lot of readers away before the first book (this one) is halfway finished.Compared to other heroic fantasy, I find the Covenant books to be somehow more believable, and to have more emotional impact. The theme of redemption, present throughout the series, resonated with me when I first read the books twenty years ago, and
*Soul-saddened SIGH*.....Damn, damn, DAMN...life can really be full of suck. This book really torched my hopes and dreams. NOT because it was nightmarishly horrible (which it wasnt) but because I wanted it to be so brimming with steaming chunks of mouth-watering awesome that I could write a stinging, snark-filled anti-anti-Thomas Covenant review...my rant against the ranters.I suspected I had a excellent chance of really liking this story because most of the criticism of the series revolves
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