the chronicles of thomas covenant the unbeliever

Thomas Covenant is the world's most miserable, gloomy, wretched, irritating, hateful, abhorrent, despicable, contemptible, disheartening, forlorn, self pitying excuse for a (make believe) human being it's ever been my misfortune to read about. I will spread my misery.' I flung it from me and now avoid this writer like the plague. A female protagonist starts the first book with 'Oh woe is me.

Donaldson and said 'oh no it's not like that.' I tried it. A friend recommended another completely different series of books by Mr. I will bemoan my fate constantly no matter what.' I threw it away. I will make everyone around me miserable. My life is awful, I dare not believe anything good. Run.run fast and run far don't get caught in this book! I had to finish the first trilogy (for some reason) once I started, and I was miserable! I picked up the first book in the second trilogy and it was again 'Oh woe is me. These books established Donaldson as one of the most important figures in modern fantasy fiction. Stephen Donaldson came to prominence in 1977 with the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, which is centred around a leper shunned by society and his trials and tribulations as his destiny unfolds. The first book in that series, Lord Foul's Bane, received 47 rejections before a publisher agreed to publish it. It is believed that a speech his father made on leprosy (whilst working with lepers in India) led to Donaldson's creation of Thomas Covenant, the anti-hero of his most famous work (Thomas Covenant).

McKillip, Steven Erikson, and Tim Powers. The writers he most admires are Patricia A. Tolkien, Roger Zelazny, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and William Faulkner. Donaldson earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and master's degree from Kent State University.ĭonaldson's work is heavily influenced by other fantasy authors such as J.R.R. Donaldson spent the years between the ages of 3 and 16 living in India, where his father was working as an orthopaedic surgeon. His father, James, was a medical missionary and his mother, Ruth, a prosthetist (a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices). He has also written non-fiction under the pen name Reed Stephens. Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novelist in the United Kingdom he is usually called 'Stephen Donaldson' (without the 'R').

The chronicles of thomas covenant the unbeliever