Stephen R Donaldson

Attention Royce: New Thomas Covenant novels

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Stephen Donaldson’s website has a blurb up you might be interested in.

Coming Fall 2004!

The Runes of the Earth

the first of four books in …

The Last Chronicles of

Thomas Covenant

There’s also a .pdf of “chapter one of the prologue” up for download.

I still need to read the first Thomas Covenant novels. Yes, the ones you’ve been telling me to read since we met in 4th grade (or whenever you read them, I suppose). I’ll get around to it one of these days, I swear…

iTunes: “Desire” by Yello from the album Essential (1985, 3:43).

Upcoming reading material

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I’ve been between books for a while now, and have been casting about for what to read next. My next book I’m now good for — I can’t think of the title right now, but Candice loaned me a book last night that explores many of the different religions and/or cults (depending on your point of view) in the world today, from Mormonism to Scientology, should be interesting reading.

Today I was reading this thread on the Home Theater Forum where they’re discussing some of the reviews that have been coming out for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. On [page two of the thread conversation turned to whether or not the film would capture that near-undefinable “magic” or “epic” feel of really good fantasy or science fiction. In the course of the discussion quite a few books and series were mentioned, and I thought I’d jot some of them down so I can pull from this list next time I need to find a book to dive into. Here’s what they’ve mentioned so far:

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