Recommendations
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:32 am
Stephen R. Donaldson: The Chornicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. There is also The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. There are ten books in total(3, 3 and 4).
These books are the kind of brilliant epic fantasy books that I think it takes a white mind to write. It starts with an author in late 20th century America who is spurned by his Christian community because he contracts leporsy. His wife leaves him and takes their son, and he spent some time in a leprosarium in Louisiana before returning home. He has an accident that causes him to lose consciousness, then finds himself in "The Land", where he must combat the forces of Lord Foul the Despiser using the power of his white-gold wedding band. He thinks it is just a dream. Every time he returns from the land, he wakes up in his own world just hours later, though months have gone by in The Land. A day in his world is equal to a year in The land, so, when the Second Chronicles starts ten years after the first ended, over 3,500 years have gone by in the Land. Thomas Covenant actually dies at the end of the Second Chronicles, and a female doctor who accompanies him to the Land in The Second Chronicles takes over as the new protagonist in The Last Chronicles, wielding the white-gold wedding band that he gave her before he died.
Check Stephen R. Donaldson out! I hope to make more recommendations in the future.
These books are the kind of brilliant epic fantasy books that I think it takes a white mind to write. It starts with an author in late 20th century America who is spurned by his Christian community because he contracts leporsy. His wife leaves him and takes their son, and he spent some time in a leprosarium in Louisiana before returning home. He has an accident that causes him to lose consciousness, then finds himself in "The Land", where he must combat the forces of Lord Foul the Despiser using the power of his white-gold wedding band. He thinks it is just a dream. Every time he returns from the land, he wakes up in his own world just hours later, though months have gone by in The Land. A day in his world is equal to a year in The land, so, when the Second Chronicles starts ten years after the first ended, over 3,500 years have gone by in the Land. Thomas Covenant actually dies at the end of the Second Chronicles, and a female doctor who accompanies him to the Land in The Second Chronicles takes over as the new protagonist in The Last Chronicles, wielding the white-gold wedding band that he gave her before he died.
Check Stephen R. Donaldson out! I hope to make more recommendations in the future.