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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Chron. of Thomas Covenant
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:46:56 EST
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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)