Against All Things Ending
by Stephen Donaldson
fantasy
NOOOOOOOO !!!
Struggled through this enormous time -- I just want to know how it all end -- and it DOES NOT END ! This book is:
The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (3 of 4)
copyright 2010
read in January 2014
rated 4 / 10: bad but could be read
I considered 5/10 but decided that "readable" was just too much. This book is barely -- or not -- readable.
Is there anyone who has died in the previous nine books ? Well yes, thousands... and they are all making an appearance in this book. Worse yet -- they appear yet offer nothing useful...
Oh yes, we know the answer, they say, But we're not going to tell you. Hints of disaster are fine but actual facts are verboten.
Covenant himself has been dead for the last two books. Dead in a way that allows him to see all and know all, in the past present and future. Now he's alive again and willing to talk...
Guess what ? Now Covenant has amnesia... Good grief.
Then there's the pace of the story telling...
Ten people are running to a deadline. We are told who is first in line. And who is second... and third... In fact every person is placed in line. Then they pause...
And start running again. And guess what ? We are told the order in which each person now runs... Okay, it's exactly the same order. But Donaldson lists them all again. In order. In. Pointless. Order.
Still, I struggled on. Thinking, it's going to finish. Eventually. Then I reached the end...
And it did not end.
There's yet another book in the series :-(
Good grief.
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