White Gold Wielder: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book Three

I read these when they were first published. I had to wait for each of the last 3. I missed so much in that reading . Yes he overdoes the obscure vocabulary but it doesn’t bother me. The characters are still brilliant , Foamfollower and the giants are still my favourites . This time I saw more of the fear of what we are doing to the earth. I was too young too worry about it last time , very few of us did then and the pressure on us all to be more than we are .I read deeper. I loved it . And despite the vocabulary , it’s an easy read

I first read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant in my late teens, then again in my early 30s. I'm now in my mid 40s and completed them for the third time. The more experience of life and of myself, the more these books resonate. This is high fantasy at its best, offering me an opportunity to consider my own flaws and spirituality through the context of a fantasy land.Each time I've read these, the second chronicles always resonated more. The concept of the Sunbane is one that fascinates me: natural law and its corruption; the blind acceptance of it by the people. I think of it every spring, when the ferns grow up the forestry where I walk my dogs. They seem to grow faster than natural law would allow, although I know fine well that that is impossible, is it not?As a linguist, there is another dimension to these books. I read on Kindle, one advantage of which is that I can get to dictionary definitions easily, and I still find that I have to do that rather a lot. Unlike other reviewers, I don't feel like the author is showing off or using five syllables where one will do. He has a real knack for choosing just the right word in many cases.What really gets me about these books is the inward monologue of the main characters and I can relate to it so well. There is a deep spiritualism to these stories that I can't possibly have understood in my late teens, and yet I still considered these books among my favourites at that age.

I m still reading this book but its very slow going, the book lumbers along focusing very much on the characters rather than the story I'm sure some people would love that part of the book but its not really for me, I don't mind a little of that so it sets the story line up along with the characters involved but I would personally prefer a quicker moving storyline. I will finish the 3rd chronicles but I don't think I will go to the fourth. its just note for me!

Fabulous storytelling, engaging characters and relentlessly page-turning. 5 stars for the book.One star lost due to the poor quality control evident in the Kindle version. Looks to me like it was scanned in, run through optical character recognition and then not proofread. Character names are misspelled ("Cail" becomes "Call") and at one point, Hollian is amusingly said to be "smiting faintly". There's also a mystifying "rsssssssss" about half-way through.Do the errors detract from the story? No. But they are distracting. Enough so to make me want to point them out in a review!

An incredible end to what is without doubt one of the greatest fantasy books of the twentieth century. Unparalleled, and unequaled.

Kindle purchase. Downsizing the physical book collection to save space. Moved to the Kindle version as one of my favourite reads.....

A wonderfully described world of magic and imagination which completely illustrates the struggle between madness and normality in our universe.

Read these books over 10 years ago and they have not lost their charm.Donaldsons beautifully crafted world still grips my heart.These books are my Andelain under the Sunbane of modern life.