[LMB] What is wrong with Thomas Covenant books OT:

[Azalais Aranxta]

Quoting Mark Allums <mallums at tyler.net>:

> Raye Johnsen wrote:
> Does [Thomas Covenant regret his action]?  I do not get
> that feeling.  I read it and
> > reading the rest of the book it appears to me that he
> > regrets its consequences, but he never actually
> > regrets doing it.  He acknowledges that he's a piece
> > of shit for doing it but he already thought so low of
> > himself that it makes utterly no change in his
> > attitude.  It does *nothing* save characterise him as
> > an utterly selfish being.  He does not spare even a
> > thought to the consequences to his victim, and except
> > when confronted with the wider consequences to himself
> > he doesn't even think about it.
> 
> Not sure we read the same book.  He was sorry the morning after, and 
> decided to help The Land as penence, even though he didn't even really 
> know what was going on.

IF I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me "Are we reading the same
books?" I'd be wealthy.  The fact that your interpretation is different from
hers does not mean yours is right and hers is wrong.

That one's right up there with "if you don't like X, why are you a fan of the
series" for being insulting.

~malfoy