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Not long after the completion of Thomas Covenant’s adventure in the first trilogy ( ‘Lord Foul’s Bane‘ in 1977, ‘The Illearth War‘ in 1978 and ‘The Power that Preserves‘ in 1979), Stephen Donaldson presented the second trilogy. First book of the ‘Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant’’ was published in 1980 as “The Wounded Land“. It has been ten years since ... Read More »

“The Veteran and Other stories”, is a collection of five fictional tales by the famous thriller writer Frederick Forsyth. Written with the typical Forsyth attention to immaculate details of real life professionals, each story makes an interesting read, with a game-changer twist at the end. THE VETERAN: A man is kicked to death, by two rogues, on a pavement of ... Read More »

At the end of second book, “The Illearth War”, we left Covenant in his living room, sick with the knowledge that he might have done more damage, rather than any help to the Land. He starts roaming the country around at night, and confronts a girl endangered by a snake. Just when he is trying to help the girl, he ... Read More »

The first book of these chronicles, “Lord Foul’s Bane”, ends when Covenant wakes up in a hospital bed and believes that his whole adventure in the Land was just a dream; his way to escape from the reality of his leprosy. A month passes and the mounting pressure of his loneliness and the town’s aversion to him, drives him to ... Read More »

“The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant”, by Stephen Donaldson, is a series of adventures of Thomas Covenant in the world called “The Land”. This series is quite popular and the writer is compared with J R R Tolkien at his best. The writer grew up in India, where his father worked with lepers. This can be seen in the way he ... Read More »

In my personal opinion king makers are more respected then the king himself. And anyone who achieved a remarkable success mostly have someone to inspire him. It could be a cricket coach for a cricketer or a teacher for a student, it could be Vasishtha for Ram, it could be Albus Dumbledore for Harry Potter and Gandhiji for Nelson Mandela ... Read More »