Wednesday, February 04, 2004
hey hey miss amazon/chris/elethea...
if you are depressed, mayhaps thomas covenant isn't the greatest idea. i mean, the self-loathing is almost overbearing. home dude is terminally ill and hates himself. they are great books, don't get me wrong, just don't read too much into it or you might start trying to draw similarities between yourself and this dying 50 year-old man with absolutely nothing left in the world besides this platinum ring that has magical powers in some far off universe. at the very beginning, didn't he show up in the other world as a result of trying to overdose on some sort of medication? just don't get too sucked in to the down side of the book, and look at it as a tale of redemption and a testament to the elastic nature of the human spirit...
i don't want to sound all crisis counsellor on you, but seriously, lol. if you want some good fantasy that isn't so bubbley, read Raymond E. Feist's serpantwar or something. at least the people in that one aren't trying to kill themselves all the time. depression is addictive, so just be wary. i'm sure you know all this, and on a side note, that first chronicles of thomas covenant were really good :) i'm probably not even remembering it right.
if you are depressed, mayhaps thomas covenant isn't the greatest idea. i mean, the self-loathing is almost overbearing. home dude is terminally ill and hates himself. they are great books, don't get me wrong, just don't read too much into it or you might start trying to draw similarities between yourself and this dying 50 year-old man with absolutely nothing left in the world besides this platinum ring that has magical powers in some far off universe. at the very beginning, didn't he show up in the other world as a result of trying to overdose on some sort of medication? just don't get too sucked in to the down side of the book, and look at it as a tale of redemption and a testament to the elastic nature of the human spirit...
i don't want to sound all crisis counsellor on you, but seriously, lol. if you want some good fantasy that isn't so bubbley, read Raymond E. Feist's serpantwar or something. at least the people in that one aren't trying to kill themselves all the time. depression is addictive, so just be wary. i'm sure you know all this, and on a side note, that first chronicles of thomas covenant were really good :) i'm probably not even remembering it right.
