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Thu Jun 25, 2009, 7:37 PM
  • Listening to: The rattling AC
  • Reading: The Wounded Land
  • Watching: My cursor blink
  • Playing: Starcraft (sort of...)
I've discovered a new series. If anyone reading this a fan of the "epic fantasy" story, (think Lord of the Rings), you need to go to your library right now and check out these books.

Take LotR, add realistic characters, add the darkness and complexity (but cut back the gore) of Saw, a good dose of Heinlein's "World as Myth", a huge bucket of karma, an amazing world and you've got something like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. I'm not sure what it is about these books, but they draw you in and make you care. I have not been able to put these down since I picked them up. So if your tired of the Tolkien clones, cop-out endings (*cough* Deathly Hallows *cough*), and kid table fluff (not that fluff isn't fun, but it does get boring) this is the series for you. ((Btw, If you've ever tried to refute "fantasy is for kids" argument, this is a good one to look into.))

In other news, this is kind of a long winded explanation of why my ink drawings haven't gone back up. They are coming... as soon as I finish "The Wounded Land".

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"they draw you in and make you care"

*MY SIGNATURE HERE* :P

But don't rush through it too qiuckly, I'd say :) Rest about it, walk with it :D :)
I'm so glad I could persuade two friends to read "along" those days, and I mostly remember our fascinated conversations, which could go on for a few hours, hehe...

Aaahh, Revelstone :love: :lol: (btw I read Runes of the Earth in English)

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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors! Oscar Wilde.
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Wounded Land did slow me down a little bit. I'm almost at the end of WGW now, (they're in Andelian). The making me care part is really becoming clear in this last one, especially Linden and Covenant's relationship takes its twists and turns (and I want/ed to smack both of them!). Anyway, thanks for the comment.

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Melenkurion abatha!

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