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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 4925373" data-attributes="member: 4789"><p>I tend to agree in general - but I have an exception for Covenant.</p><p></p><p>I first read those when I was a callow teen and ignored the event - and as I read further found that great chunks of plot of the rest of the first trilogy is him feeling complete guilt for it, and trying to atone. Then upon really paying attention, at that point in time, he believed the world was a dream and had no real consequences - so it didn't matter. But then he found out it did ( Not unlike Raskolnikov not being unaffected by murder in Crime And Punishement), and that was one of the things that tied him to the land. So it wasn't a casual thing - it became one of the keystones of the books. And it was funny too, in that Covenant is one of the few fantasy protagonists (I won't say hero) to whom the killing of the bad guys felt like murder, and he felt guilt over it.</p><p></p><p>One thing about Donalson's writing, good or bad, sex is never something casual, it has great emotional power, and can really affect people.</p><p></p><p>--Gets off soapbox</p><p></p><p>As my username might indicate I feel great attachement to the works of Donaldson, notably the Covenant series. So I sometimes feel the need to discuss my views when it comes up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Mhoram, post: 4925373, member: 4789"] I tend to agree in general - but I have an exception for Covenant. I first read those when I was a callow teen and ignored the event - and as I read further found that great chunks of plot of the rest of the first trilogy is him feeling complete guilt for it, and trying to atone. Then upon really paying attention, at that point in time, he believed the world was a dream and had no real consequences - so it didn't matter. But then he found out it did ( Not unlike Raskolnikov not being unaffected by murder in Crime And Punishement), and that was one of the things that tied him to the land. So it wasn't a casual thing - it became one of the keystones of the books. And it was funny too, in that Covenant is one of the few fantasy protagonists (I won't say hero) to whom the killing of the bad guys felt like murder, and he felt guilt over it. One thing about Donalson's writing, good or bad, sex is never something casual, it has great emotional power, and can really affect people. --Gets off soapbox As my username might indicate I feel great attachement to the works of Donaldson, notably the Covenant series. So I sometimes feel the need to discuss my views when it comes up. :) [/QUOTE]
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