Experience White Gold Wielder (The Second Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, #3) Translated By Stephen R. Donaldson File PDF

one was okay. It wrapped up the plotlines from the previous two novels in the second trilogy, but I've already stated that I liked the first trilogy better, In the first chronicles, Covenant was exploring and coming to an understanding of The Land, In the second chronicles, Covenant totally understands The Land, Donaldson seems to go out of his way to have his heroes wandering around discovering new creatures and landscapes, Far too much of the second chronicles involves the party traveling with no clear goal, but White Gold Wielder is at least punctuated by some epic conflicts,

There's very clear parallels to the third book in the first trilogy, The first half of the book goes toward winning the war and accomplishing the thing that needs to be done, in this case ridding Revelstone of the accursed Raver Gibbon.
But even after the battle is won, Lord Foul's torment has been too extensive for The Land to recover on it's own, It is necessary for Covenant to journey to Mount Thunder in a plotline ripped directly from "Lord of the Ring's" to confront Lord Foul directly, In this case the ending makes sense, even if the author tries to build up some tension about whether Covenant is really in his right mind,

But before the party gets to Revelstone they have to fight some ice giants or something, which kind of come out of nowhere, And in between Revelstone and Mount Thunder, there's some angsty emotional conflict between Covenant and his friends that I find boring, I'd be interested in reading an abridged version if such a thing were possible, Since, I've DNF'ed sitelinkThe Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, I'm abandoning my plans to reread this book and the series, For my reviews of what has gone before and led up to my abandonment of this series, see below,

Lord Foul's Bane,

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The Illearth War,

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The Power That Preserves,

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The Wounded Land,

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This book wasn't what I remembered it being, When I wasor so, I recall reading this novel for the first time and thinking it bleak and unrelenting, Nonetheless, the ending moved me and the story had a profound impact on me for years to come, My memory was of the characters struggling through a cold and lonely landscape, suffering terrible tragedy after terrible tragedy, However, I also vaguely remember it feeling like a frigid, difficult, and even somewhat boring slog, As an adult, the difficulty remains, But the other adjectives are questionable,

White Gold Wielder picks up immediately after The One Tree, Thomas Covenant, Linden Avery, and the remaining members of the Search leave the isle of the One Tree and attempt to return to the Land, They wind up being blown north, into icy waters, Eventually, they must travel on foot over ice floes and across a wintry landscape to head south into the Land, They meet up with old friends Sunder and Hollian and head to Revelstone, where Covenant plans to confront the Clave, even though he does not have a new Staff of Law with which to fight them.
But even if he destroys the Clave, will that be enough to defeat Lord Foul Or is a second confrontation with the Despiser inevitable

Much of this book deals with loss and how the various characters deal with it.
Although there are certainly physical confrontations creatures to be fought, elements to be battled, demons to be exorcised Donaldson remains focused on the psychological, As people sacrifice themselves to keep Covenant alive, how can he deal with the grief or the feelings of inadequacy What can he do to live up to their expectations For Linden Avery, the doctor with the dark past, how can she accept that to heal she may first have to do harm Is there another way out, rather than asserting her will on to another being This is thorny, knotty, dense stuff and it sometimes devolves into handwringing and navelgazing.
However, Donaldson keeps the pages moving with enough plot so that the inner voices of the characters do not become all consuming,

After so many years, I had forgotten how the final conflict between Foul, Covenant, and Avery played out, which made the ending of the book both bittersweet and satisfying.
The understanding that Covenant comes to relies on the acceptance of losses, both large and small, It's also a very adult moment, where pain mingles with joy, hope with sadness, There is none of the cheery triumphalism I often see in epic fantasy, Although vastly different, Donaldson writes in the tradition of Tolkien, where great victories are achieved at great price, And, as always, I appreciate that the emphasis is not on the myth of redemptive violence, Love has other tools to fight evil than simply killing,

The objective part of my brain says that Donaldson's occasional excesses and deficiencies as a writerstoryteller make this a three star book, The emotional part of me still leans toward the four star rating, probably because, for a young teenage boy who hated himself, this book gave me hope, Hope that even a life that looked ugly, clumsy, and unlovable could be made meaningful, Looking at this work through the lens of many more years of life experience, I have my doubts as to whether the answers here are sufficient, But I am grateful that myyearold incarnation had these ideas to turn to in an hour of need, Ipak na silu.

Tri zvezdice se u ovom slucaju odnose na celu sagu pve i druge hronike o Tomasu Kovenantu, Neverniku i Nosiocu Belog Zlata,

Jako realistican iako pise cistu epsku fantastiku, Nekada i presurov u predstavljanju bola i ptatnje, unutrasnje borbe koju vodi svaki covek, jada koji donose ocekivanja naspram mogucnosti i realnosti, Ali zar takav i nije ovaj zivot,

Koegzistentan stil pisanja, prozet jakim recenicama i cvrstom formom, Ne gubi nit.

Ume da dovede radnju do "epskih" proporcija,

Plagijator.

Resanja koja okrecu radnju u jdnom ili drugom smeru su precesto slabo razradjene ideje,

Predvidljiv, jos vise time sto se trudi da to ne bude, Kontraefekat. This is the third and final novel of the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and stands as the sixth novel out of all the series, For some twenty years, this was the final Covenant novel, until author Stephen Donaldson wrote the third series, It is now book six of ten,

As a finale to the second chronicles and, for decades, to the entire series, this book is both satisfying and somber, Donaldson writes no completely happy endings, As with the first series, victory can only be obtained at great cost, Many characters lose their lives in this final installment of the second series,

That being said, this is one of the most satisfying endings to a longrunning series I have ever read, There is a great deal of "closing the circle" here, Locations and occurrences from the first few books return in a new form, Old violations are made right, And the truth of how the Wild Magic, the Arch of Time, and Lord Foul himself work only hinted at in the first five books are finally made clear to the reader.


Perhaps most importantly, the characters of Covenant and Linden are resolved in powerful and profound ways, Each achieves much in this last novel, And if you thought Covenant was an S, O. B. before, I can say without providing any real spoilers, he completely redeems himself in this novel, I had come to like him before this when I first read the series grudgingly in the first Chronicles, and then more genuinely in the previous two books of this series.
But his behavior in White Gold Wielder cements Covenant for me as one of my favorite characters,

And what can I say about Linden Avery, Much though I like Covenant, and even characters like Foamfollower, Pitchwife, Bannor, and the First, Linden is far and away my favorite character in this series, She is rich, complicated, interesting, . . and her plight is one with which I always empathized, Unlike Covenant, I'd have made a lot of the choices she made, And indeed, her love of Covenant is perhaps one reason I came to like Covenant so much, She does not disappoint in this novel,

For many years, White Gold Wielder stood as the capper to this series, and for that reason, much as I love it, I could not fully enjoy reading it because I knew that it represented the end of my journey in the Land.
Now, with four books coming after it, there is nothing to mitigate my pleasure in this novel, Indeed I read almost the entire second half o fit inhours again this most recent time through, This happens most of the time once I get to the midpoint of this novel, I can't put it down until the end,

If you have liked the other novels in this series, White Gold Wielder is well worth a read, Reread this and all the Covenant books in preparation for the anticipatedth and final Covenant book publication in fall,, A magnificent ending to the Second Chronicles Donaldson is even better in this trilogy than in the first! Unlike other reviews I've read, I liked the second trilogy as much as the first.
And I can understand why the author took almost two decades to tackle his third trilogy The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, I attempted to read the first trilogy when I was much younger than I am now, around, and just couldn't get into it, And not because of the "big awful" that happened near the beginning of the first book, . . just because I hadn't experienced enough life to scratch the surface of the meaning of the books, The antihero has become more popular these days, And in the first trilogy, Thomas Covenant WAS a very hard hero to like, But his struggles are the same struggles that I have experienced in life, The journey through guilt, dishonor and disbelief to redemption is one that I have lived, Thomas Covenant was a real person, flawed, dealing with his life and the "dream" of the Land in the only way he knew how, And in the end of the first trilogy, he found that balance within himself, redeemed himself, In the second trilogy, we have TWO deeply flawed characters, but they are damaged in different ways, Linden Avery was driven by her powerlessness in the face of despair and death, Thomas Covenenant, in the second trilogy, was driven by similar demons, except that he had experienced redemption and was put to new challenges, the loss of what he had loved and saved.
Both Linden and Avery in the end were able to turn their weaknesses into strengths, and redeem themselves, It was a vastly satisfying read, It doesn't MATTER if the Land is real or not, What matters is the journey of the main characters, And what they conquer in themselves in infinitely satisfying, I didn't know that there was a third trilogy until I was reading reviews of Thomas Covenant online which I always do after reading a series, because I'm sad it's over and want to read other people's views on it.
But I'm excited to start reading it, . . it's a series of four books, but the fourth hasn't been released yet, And Donaldson said he waited so long to start because he was afraid he wouldn't be able to bring the story to completion and due it full justice, In the end, he decided to face his fears and make the attempt, because the greatest thing he risked was failure, And in that, you can see that much of WHO his characters are is drawn from within himself, Which makes for the best writing, I would recommend these books to anyone, And I've seen them given horrible reviews, But people giving these books horrible reviews usually haven't read the entire series, and I'd wager my admittedly unimpressive bank account against the fact that they haven't struggled with some of the things that Covenant struggles with on a daily basis.
If you understand the why of a person, you find their journey fascinating, no matter how unappealing they may seem when you first are introduced to their character, Le nuove cronache di Thomas Covenant l'Incredulo si concludono con un volume che richiama le atmosfere della prima trilogia di Donaldson e con un finale altrettanto epico, Forse solo questa somiglianza con i libri precedenti può essere rimproverata all'autore,
Con L'oro bianco si conclude il percorso di crescita interiore dei due protagonisti, Thomas Covenant e Linden Avery, il cui approfondimento psicologico è stato l'elemento più efficace dell'intera saga, Il tema della colpa e del sacrificio è affrontato più volte e in più personaggi, con differenti punti di vista, creando un sistema di valori che ribalta il modello tolkieniano, chiaramente noto all'autore, in segno negativo.

Dal punto di vista stilistico, il tono epico e altisonante che ha caratterizzato l'intera saga viene di nuovo riproposto, con tanto di inserti poetici molto efficaci,
In sintesi, Donaldson ha creato un universo che, con un sapiente dosaggio di high fantasy e dark fantasy, sa avvincere il lettore, grazie anche a un'ottima scrittura dei personaggi.
La saga resterà sicuramente nella mia memoria, ma difficilmente potrò considerarla una pietra miliare del genere fantasy, a causa della sua scarsa originalità contenutistica, Donaldson's unique talent for delivering fantasy in a way that's literary, quiet, and yet still very absorbing has always been a mystery to me, The author's writing habits have snowballed for me at this point, You know how once you notice something, that you can't unnotice it That's the case here,
However there were some surprises in the plot, which were enjoyable, The ending, though very Catholic in theme, made sense and was a satisfying conclusion, There was one giant and I use that term literally and figuratively unfinished tale in the book, To avoid spoilers, I will say no more, but once you've read it, you will know

what I mean,
Overall, I'm glad that I revisited this series which I've enjoyed since I was a teen, The strengths of it: the characters, world building and raw struggles are very memorable and poignant, especially with our challenges today: corruption of power, environmental disaster, coming into an accurate understanding of our past actions, questions of what is loyalty, how to challenge the very human trait to want power, how to deal with mistakes.

However, I wish the writing was better, FYI, Donaldson wrote a trio of follow up novels to this series more recently, I read the first two, but couldn't bear to go further, What glimmers of hope, humor or beauty reside in the original were absent in the new ones, Also, they were enormous and direly needed an editor, Don't bother, Covenant fans. .