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| Original Title: | The Power That Preserves |
| ISBN: | 0345348672 (ISBN13: 9780345348678) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #3, Thomas Covenant #3 |
| Characters: | Thomas Covenant |
Stephen R. Donaldson
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 4.01 | 22557 Users | 329 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Power That Preserves (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #3) |
| Author | : | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
| Published | : | October 12th 1987 by Del Rey Books (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Science Fiction |
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"A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication."--Los Angeles TimesTwice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange otherworld where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.
Now he was back--to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul. The Lords were besieged and helpless. No place was safe, and Foul's victory seemed certain. Only Covenant could avert it. Desperately and without hope, he set out to confront the might of the Enemy. Along with him traveled a Giant, a Bloodguard, and the madwoman he had wronged. And in Foul's Creche, Lord Foul grew in power with each new defeat for the Land. . . .
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Ratings: 4.01 From 22557 Users | 329 ReviewsCommentary Of Books The Power That Preserves (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #3)
This is magnificent! I've reread the first Thomas Covenant trilogy after some 30ish years, mainly because I want to read the latest, concluding trilogy in the series but need to refresh my memory first. I enjoyed 'Lord Foul's Bane' and loved 'The Illearth War', but I had forgotten just how tremendous this final book of the First Chronicles is.It ties up a lot of loose ends from the first two volumes, bringing the stories of such wounded characters as Lena, Trell, Triock and Foamfollower to theirI'm giving this book 5 stars, because I can't give it 4 1/2. I've given the first two 4 stars each. The Power that Preserves was by far the best book in the trilogy. The siege of Revelstone is epic, and Covenant's final showdown with Foul was its equal. This is great fantasy writing.
Covenant as cantankerous and full of contradictions as ever; Mhoram as wise and understanding; at one moment valuing one person's need above his whole world; Saltheart Foamfollower the best friend a person might have. The part where he carries Covenant through the lava stream, even on his shoulders, and eventually throwing Covenant to the other side. I have considered that sacrifice often in recent years. To help someone that much at such cost to oneself. A remarkable thing.Also, the fact that
Too eldritch, too loamy, too mordant, too incondign.I am being a little sarcastic here. Usually it's pleasing when a book sends me to the dictionary, and this is definitely one that stretches me, like the others. After a while it is tiring, especially because, as alluded to above, Donaldson will seize on an adjective and wrangle it about like a Labrador Retriever with a water toy. The ground is loamy, then the atmosphere is loamy, the tears are loamy, the smoke is loamy, ad nauseum. My second
In this, the third and final book of the Illearth War series, Donaldson (enervated beyond all reckoning, but yet with a gargantuan exertion whose puissance he could not attribute) (or something like that) pries his gaze out of his navel, stops trying to use plot to expostulate an impenetrable personal philosophy, and actually puts the storyline front and center. It's as Dire and Grim and Fraught with Self-Inflicted Misery as the other two books, but reads as legitimate fantasy, with the
I'm about to move, so I am going through my books and deciding which will come with me and which will ... stay in a local charity shop.This entire series will soooooooooooooo stay right here. It sure has to be among the worst, most boring and direst fantasy spectacles I have ever had the misfortune to buy and read. I hated this 15 years ago, and my feelings haven't changed. Except that these days I also find it terminally overwritten.
Another series I did in one long weekend, this was probably one of the most influential series I read during high school. For some reason I absolutely hated the main character Thomas Conevenant (probably because he was an ass) and my one driving passion was to keep reading until he was killed off. Until of course the last book in the second series where I got over it and decided he should live and then he was killed off. As an interesting aside, this series made it remarkably less likely that I
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