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Anyone else waiting for Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson?

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MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 09:50

Only 10 days left till the second book in the third trilogy of Thomas Covenant books is published. I've been waiting two years for this book. Anyone else?

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MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 13:36

Clearly not as eagerly anticipated as Harry Potter .

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tribpot · 29/09/2007 13:40

I haven't read the first book yet, although the first two trilogies are some of my favourite books. What's number one like?

MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 13:41

Very good as far as I can remember. It was two years ago. I wish SD would write faster
I've just read an online summary of the previous seven books and it's made me want to start them again.

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tribpot · 29/09/2007 17:37

Yes - I lost all of my originals in a house fire a few years ago, then bought one of the trilogy-in-one-volume jobbies (what is the proper name for those?) and seem to have lost that too. I see on Amazon the trilogy-in-one-volumes are still available, I might re-read those and wait for all three of these to be available.

Very mixed reviews on Amazon. I think if I were Donaldson I wouldn't have revisited Thomas Covenant. Did you read the Mordant's Need ones? I thought they were just dreadful. And I started the Gap Into .. yadda yadda and couldn't get on with them at all.

MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 17:49

No, I've only read Covenant. And there are four books in this, um, trilogy . With two year gaps between each book. Gah!

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tribpot · 29/09/2007 17:52

Flipping 'eck. In that case I am definitely going to wait. But you go right ahead and in 2011 I'll be back in touch to see what you thought

I only read the most recent Robin Hobb trilogy (are you a fan?) once I knew the last book was out, in hardback at least. But it hasn't been sufficiently good to warrant buying the hardback (and thus messing with the 'all the books the same height' thing, which is possibly freakish of me, but possibly normal) - and Leeds libraries have one copy to share between all the branches.

MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 17:56

Not read Robin Hobb either. Is he a fantasy writer? I wasn't into fantasy at all till my dad (a huge fantasy fan) bought me the first two Covenant trilogies for Christmas. It took me a whole year to get through all six books back-to-back so two-year gaps now are a bit much.

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tribpot · 29/09/2007 17:59

Oooh, Robin Hobb is really good. She's a she, btw, not that you could really be expected to know that. Well worth it if you have time in between Donaldson!

Twiglett · 29/09/2007 18:07

I thought the 2nd trilogy went really off the boil .. am very surprised to hear there is a 3rd trilogy

Twiglett · 29/09/2007 18:09

isn't the point of a trilogy that its 3 books

this is like trilogy cubed isn't it?

so do you agree that 2nd trilogy was bad .. and if so is 3rd trilogy worth the effort .. 1st trilogy (read long time ago) was amazing IIRC

MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 18:10

You're right, Twglett, I definitely preferred the first trilogy. The Illearth War (2nd book) was my favourite.

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MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 18:12

Third 'trilogy' has started off good, but still not as good as the first trilogy. Tbh I've been waiting so damn long for the second book that I've forgotten the first one. Can I re-read it in 10 days I wonder?

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tribpot · 29/09/2007 20:43

Isn't Hitchhikers a "Trilogy in Five Parts"? This is a totally spurious question, I quite easily see how a trilogy should be a saga of three books.

MrsSeanSlater · 29/09/2007 20:50

Tri means 3. Dictionary says a trilogy is 3 related novels, films, etc.

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MrsSeanSlater · 30/09/2007 12:19

Obviously you already knew that but I thought i'd look it up for confirmation.

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fishie · 30/11/2007 23:50

sooo, have any of you read it? have just finished runes one (first in third) which was good enough to make me continue.

LyraSilvertongue · 30/11/2007 23:52

I'm reading Fatal Revenant but I'm finding it hard going tbh, probably because of the two-year gap between books (I'm also MrsSeanSlater btw).

BoysAreLikeReindeer · 30/11/2007 23:57

Oh, I loved the two Thomas Covenant trilogies.

I found the newest one hard going, but I think that was because previously I read all six straight off (crikey) so nothing to plunge straight into as it were.

And also in hardback it was Too Heavy for marathon reading sessions.

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