![]() The books on the whole were rather good, once you'd got used to the idea that Donaldson and Tolkien were similar insofar as they both wrote books: there, though, the simliarity ended. ![]() Reading it was rather like being shouted at. It included some very dodgy line drawings and very big print. A thin volume, a missing chapter from The Illearth War, was published afterwards called Gilden Fire. ![]() The trilogy was Lord Foul's Bane, The Illearth War, and The Power that Preserves (all written in the late seventies, pretty much) the second Trilogy (called, unoriginally, The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: 'cos now he did believe) included The Wounded Land, The One Tree, and The Power the Preserves (early eighties). 'Comparable to Tolkien at his best.' said The Washington Post, without saying whether Donaldson was akin to Tolkien when Tolkien was at his best, or when Donaldson was perhaps the ambiguity answers the question sufficiently anyway). His first trilogy, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, was compared to Tolkien (as, let's face it, every new fantasy writer seems to be. American writer of fantasy and science-fiction, and rather prolific at that. ![]()
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