Re:
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, by Stephen Donaldson.
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Originally Posted by caleb72
I loved these as well - first two trilogies. I haven't read the last one.
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The last (third) chronicles are going to be four books, as you probably know.
I've read the first two of the set and have the third on my shelf (yes, as hardcovers - hope that's not considered sacrilege here
.). I've put off reading the third, decided to wait until the last comes out (when I'll probably go back to the start). I thought the first of these new chronicles ("The Runes of the Earth") was very good, although it seemed to get a little lost for while, but the second left me with more questions than answers (eg: the newcomers, the Insequent, that don't seem to make much sense yet with respect to what has gone before).
I'm wondering if he's written these last chronicles like he did
The Gap series, more as one big story rather than the well defined parts of the earlier chronicles. I know with
The Gap series I was tempted to stop after the first book, it was just so ... ugly, is the best I can come up with. But what came after made sense of it. With
The Gap series (Sci-Fi for those that don't know about it) I think you really need to read all five books as a single story (like it was one big book) to really get it, and it's now firmly entrenched among my favourites.