Can I just remind people posting in this thread that rather than just a single line listing what they're reading (or have just read), it would be useful if they could include a short review/ description of the work so others can get some idea of whether they'd like to read it, thanks
The Runes of the Earth - Stephen Donaldson
Continuing the story of "The Land" from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, this new series features Linden Avery "The Chosen".
As before, some thousands of years have passed in The Land, but Lord Foul has, it seems, risen again and is threatening destruction again, this time by influencing Covenant's son and driving his ex-wife insane.
He also has arranged for Linden Avery's adopted son, who appears to have some link with The Land, to be kidnapped.
Linden Avery returns to The Land to discover that the Harauchi (the people who formed the Bloodguard) have assumed the position of "Masters" and decided that since Earthpower was the cause of so many of the problems of the past (eg the Desecration caused by Kevin Landwaster) that they should deny all knowledge of it to the people in the hope that this will prevent more destruction, but they fail to realise that Earthpower was also its salvation.
This book is more classic Donaldson, somewhat overblown and over-written (as usual a good editor could have trimmed out some of the excess, and just *how many* times can you use a word like "crepuscular"?!), but none the less his descriptions are vivid and striking and his characters thoughts and actions credible.
For those who have followed the stories of The Land, this one is worth reading.
(One minor chuckle, it's generally agreed that, in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, "The One Tree" is a bit of a waste of space, achieving nothing much except increasing the page count. In the synopsis at the start of TRotE it gets about one paragraph...!!
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