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From: schmidt@reed.UUCP (Alan Schmidt)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: TC the Unbeliever
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 15:37:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 15:37:20 1985
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Summary: 

:-o | Yikes! Not fifteen! I couldn't make it through any more than the first 
:-o | three. 
:-o | 
:-o | Covenant doesn't seem real to me. His actions don't make sense.
:-o | The reason I read as much of it as I did was to pick out more of the
:-o | background (which makes a good setup for a DND campaign).
:-o 
:-o Such is your opinion.  I guess it's only to be expected; people can only
:-o judge from experience.  Most people who've never experienced being an
:-o outcast wouldn't be able to understand, much less judge clearly.
:-o 
:-o I find Linden Avery (second Chronicles) hard to understand and harder
:-o to accept.  But I have never had *her* experiences, so I cannot judge.
:-o Anyone out there willing to step forward?

Oh, all right, if you INSIST.

Linden, like Covenant, was selfISH, but thought she was selfLESS.  Her
entire system of ethics was pulled out from beneath her when she
realized it was based on a faulty premise.  

Everyone's been an outcast at one time or another.  You cope.  You
learn to live with it.  Covenant coped relatively well.  Covenant's
fault wasn't that he was an outcast, but that he couldn't relate well
to people.

I liked the first three.  The second chronicles were a little tedious,
though I liked Linden Avery.  Donaldson forgot that part of the appeal
of the first chronicles was that each book was complete unto itself.
Also, as has been said before, though I'm not sure any more whether it
was this news group, Donaldson really didn't have enough story material
for three books the second time around.  I think he wrote three because
it's vogue to write in trilogies.

If he writes three more, I hope he follows more closely to the first
trilogy than the last.

Alan Schmidt
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