It’s hard to know exactly where to start here, which seems to be how Stephen R Donaldson felt when he decided to take one more trip to the well for The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The Runes of the Earth is filled with the retelling of tales any fan of the earlier books already know-and surely no one would pick this up and start reading here-so why all the backstory? The Runes of the Earth is a pretty bad book on countless levels. It follows in the tradition of the Second Chronicles-give the readers something broken-by allowing long years…
Tag: real world
The Wounded Land
When the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant came out, I had already read the first Chronicles at least twice. I read The Wounded Land greedily and found it to be just as compelling as the first books. It was kind of tough having to wait years between books. The Wounded Land starts off with our real hero, Linden Avery. A doctor who has a lot of secrets and has burdens laid on top of her from the moment she arrives in town. The first three chapters or so take place in the real world and the Second Chronicles breaks the tradition…
Google’s Art Project
Dear old Mom wanted to be an Artist when she grew up. She took one of those mail order courses where you draw a turtle and bought a lot of books containing the Works of The Masters. She sketched three things a day, and yet, she never got past that kind of middle school phase where her work looked ok, but never looked exactly like Art. I went through a small Artist phase myself, sketching and drawing and never becoming any better. The Wife went to college and studied Art. She painted mostly abstracts on 3×4 foot canvases, with an…