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just finished reading yet another STEPHEN DONALDSON novel. i know, you're all asking why i bother to torture myself with him after my last foray into his literary world, but this time was different.
i've started on his series of SCI-FI novels called THE GAP series and the first book is surprisingly gripping and smooth to read. it lacks a lot of the academic structure the THOMAS COVENANT series was rife with, which is a comfort: making it less of an ordeal and more of an escape. there is the very distinct theme of 'desecration' which was prevelant and the core of the COVENANT series here as well, which would appear to be the way he writes. if something ain't broke, why bother with it; or the perfect must be desecrated, which the main character does with such viciousness it sickens. that said, DONALDSON'S grasp of visual imagery is far superior to that of his earlier works and shows a maturity i really enjoy.
perhaps it's good that i dealt with an early DONALDSON trauma by suffering the first six UNBELIEVER novels. so far (and i've only read the first novel, the seemingly original world of THE GAP novels appeals to me much more than the obviously reworked worked world of THOMAS COVENANT probably because i don't read much SCI-FI, but have read a number of FANTASY and noted many LOTR references throughout the theme and storyline of the UNBELIEVER CHRONICLES.
til next....
~Kits~ (pleasantly surprised)
i've started on his series of SCI-FI novels called THE GAP series and the first book is surprisingly gripping and smooth to read. it lacks a lot of the academic structure the THOMAS COVENANT series was rife with, which is a comfort: making it less of an ordeal and more of an escape. there is the very distinct theme of 'desecration' which was prevelant and the core of the COVENANT series here as well, which would appear to be the way he writes. if something ain't broke, why bother with it; or the perfect must be desecrated, which the main character does with such viciousness it sickens. that said, DONALDSON'S grasp of visual imagery is far superior to that of his earlier works and shows a maturity i really enjoy.
perhaps it's good that i dealt with an early DONALDSON trauma by suffering the first six UNBELIEVER novels. so far (and i've only read the first novel, the seemingly original world of THE GAP novels appeals to me much more than the obviously reworked worked world of THOMAS COVENANT probably because i don't read much SCI-FI, but have read a number of FANTASY and noted many LOTR references throughout the theme and storyline of the UNBELIEVER CHRONICLES.
til next....
~Kits~ (pleasantly surprised)
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