Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.books Subject: Re: Chron. of Thomas Covenant Message-ID: <5250@duke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:46:56 EST Article-I.D.: duke.5250 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:46:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:15:18 EST References: <366@aicchi.UUCP> Organization: Duke University Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.games.frp:1116 net.books:1218 I read the first of the Covenant chronicles and thought it was well written (although sort of a downer -- I know too many people in real life who look for every possible way to avoid good feelings to be real comfortable with it in literature). The second beek ended up against my Wall Spot (where all books that exceed a certain frustration level end up). The reason may seem silly -- certainly my wife thinks so. But the demonic things that Donaldson introduces in the second book are all named with Sanskrit words that represent very good things in Buddhism or Hinduism (moksha, for example). The ``cognative dissonance'' was simply too much for my little mind, and knocked me out of the book every time. After all: would devout Catholics be happy with a book in which the main villains were named Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? -- Opinions stated here are my own and are unrelated. Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)