# The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204 "2004-08-24T02:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/1 "2004-08-24T02:13:50Z")
I just found out about this and am totally stoked! :eek: 😃 There will be 4 books in the series and the first book comes out 10/14 according to [amazon.com](http://amazon.com). [![](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0399152326.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) ](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0399152326.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) I’m sure some haters will post here, but I’m hoping to hear from some more excited fans of the series! Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/2 "2004-08-24T02:19:33Z")
If you like that you’ll love [this site](http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com) , where SRD does an amazing gradual interview, that he updates every day. ALthough, I think the man should be writing more, and talking less. I’m excited, even though I have very conflicting feelings about Donaldson’s work. But I can’t help but love Thomas Covenant. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/3 "2004-08-24T02:21:55Z")
_waiting 60 seconds_ Also, I meant to mention that there is an excerpt from the first chapter on the site, as well as some odd attempt at a trailer. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/4 "2004-08-24T02:44:09Z")
Well this’ll be interesting, considering what happened at the end of the last one. Personally, I can’t be arsed reading about that miseryguts Thomas Covenant anymore, so I do not care. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/5 "2004-08-24T02:50:18Z")
I, too, am conflicted. I loved the stories but it was damned depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/6 "2004-08-24T02:53:09Z")
I’m not here for hatin’. However, while I enjoyed the first series, I never got past the first book of the second series. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/7 "2004-08-24T03:28:46Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I’m not here for hatin’. > > However, while I enjoyed the first series, I never got past the first book of the second series. The first time I tried to read the second series, I could not get into it. But I picked up a set again, and I went through all three in a week. Guess I had to be in the mood. As to what happened at the end of the last one, I think he’s set it up pretty well that even that doesn’t really mean anything in the long run. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/8 "2004-08-24T13:24:01Z")
Loved 'em back in the 80s- can’t see myself getting into them again. Why not the Chronicles of (IIRC) Linden Avery? ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/9 "2004-08-24T13:51:50Z")
Excellent! It’ll give me an excuse to read the first two Chronicles again. I think The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant would make a good anime. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/10 "2004-08-24T14:05:09Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Loved 'em back in the 80s- can’t see myself getting into them again. Why not the Chronicles of (IIRC) Linden Avery? I thought that too… But in the end, I have a feeling it will indeed end up being Thomas Covenant’s story again. Which is fine with me, Linden kinda pisses me off. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant/261204/11 "2004-08-24T14:06:23Z")
My brother was in a D&D campaign set in that world, and it worked really well. SRD’s way of describing the world helped clarify how the world looked and worked amazingly well. Sadly, for me, the books devolved down into the type of reading that felt good when I stopped doing it; one day, while I was in the middle of the second series, I stopped reading the book to read something else and never went back to it. Same thing happened in the 3rd book of the Wheel of Time series.