Product Description

This complete "Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" contains the books "The Wounded Land", "The One Tree" and "White Gold Wielder". 4000 years have passed since Covenant first freed the land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41091 in Books
• Published on: 1994-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1246 pages

Customer Reviews

The entire chronicles
One of the reviewers of this series states that Donaldson is a storyteller rather than an author; this could not be closer to the truth. The stories are brilliant, well thought out and very well written. Covenant is an objectionable sod at first - well - at last, too. The characters leap out of the pages at the reader; the giants are - well, giants. Larger than life characters who could not be nicer people: articulate, erudite, creative and above all, faithful to the death. In the second chronicles, when Covenant meets the Giants of the search, he is so overcome with emotion, and the description of his emotion is such that I wept with him.
The Haruchi, the Bloodguard, are so stoic, so unyielding, that you wish you could shake a little humanity into them, yet in the end, they are far more human than could be imagined. There is total good in his books, just as there is total evil. Every extreme of human emotion is laid bare.
One book I read, yet never see advertised, is Koric's tale, an out-take of the First Chronicles. It really is quite short, but serves to give the reader an insight into the personality of a superb character; a major character, yet one who loses out in the first trilogy, whether to a shortage of space at the time, or because he was, very mistakenly, ruled out as a major player when the book was first written.

Cashing on the first trilogy
I loved the first trilogy. What I loved was the apparent doom and gloom of the seemingly unwinnable war against the Grey Slayer, coupled with Covenant's defeatist attitude, all being turned on its head. You could look at that series of books as three books about a man in a mystical foreign land and leave it there, but you would be missing the point. It is a story about how the world is what we make of it, and that even when all seems confusing and broken (including ourselves) there is hope.

Now the second trilogy has none of that. The first trilogy is nicely wrapped up and leaves us with an impression upon our minds, but the second trilogy is just a sequence of events in some mystical land. As far as I am concerned there is nothing of great interest here, although it is well written. Don't look for the same depth in this series -- it isn't there. The first series is the work of art, and this is the money maker (just like what happens in the film world).

High Fantasy = Highly Boring
I think I have to agree with majurcic on this on. This series is boring in the extreme. Have attempted twice to read the trilogy and the farthest I have got is midway through the second book of the first trilogy. You are always saying to yourself....its going to get going soon..pg 120...its going to get going soon pg 345...its going to...oh sod it lets read Magician again. Also the Land reminds me of my back garden (green and boring), how readers can compare this to LOTR is beyond me, apart from the main character (who has "mind how you go" Leprosy) there is no depth to anything else. If fantasy is what you want then I suggest Feist, Salvatore or the new daddy of them all Robert Jordan.