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To: pepsi_junkie

She probably would have slept with him anyways was the really disgusting part about it.

What’s worse is he sleeps with the daughter from the rape years later.


76 posted on 08/15/2017 12:26:02 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
I forgot that. It's been 30 years since I read them, give or take. But as I recall Thomas Covenant starts the books as a leper who wakes up in a fantastic world where everyone thinks he's the second coming of their most important hero because he's missing half his hand and he had a white gold ring which is supposedly a super-metal with magic powers in this world. But since he's (a) a miserable SOB and (b) a misanthrope and (c) thinks these are all delusions and he thinks he's going insane, he refuses to accept any of it. He instead takes the position that any playing along he might do would be accepting the delusion, so he's intentionally a jerk. He wont help, treats them all badly, watches as the get murdered and yawns until, in a crisis some sort of random dumb luck kicks in to save the day at the end of each book when things like his magic ring, which he insists isn't magic and he won't try to use, spontaneously shoots power beams at the bad guy and ruins his plan, the end. Then in the next book, in spite of all that he's seen and the people he's met he's still that same miserable SOB who refuses to believe in where he is, refuses to treat anyone well, won't help, thinks his ring is not magic, etc.

The second trilogy was better because they flipped it, he believed fully in this world and his own power but because of some bad mojo or other he couldn't use his magic ring (or doomsday would happen or some such thing) and he had to deal with now knowing he had the power to save the day but instead he had to sit back in agony and watch it go to poo and people die because he was helpless to act. I thought that was a much more interesting dilemma than "am I crazy? I probably am, I'll just be an a-hole to everyone just in case I am". I slogged through it but when it takes 4 or 5 big thick books to give the main character an arc where he actually grows, well, I doubt it would make a good TV show without some massive re-imagining of the main character.

95 posted on 08/15/2017 9:24:06 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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