{"id":4577,"date":"2024-10-16T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2024-11-19T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:01:57","slug":"thomas-covenant-the-unbeliever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/16\/thomas-covenant-the-unbeliever\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another charity shop find! A mere \u00a31 for the trilogy of Stephen Donaldson&#8217;s <strong>The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent, The Unbeliever<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a fantasy series started in the mid-1970s in that early wave of post-Toklien novels and I read the first volume way-way-back when I was in my middle-teens (recomended by <a href=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/stargate-one\/\">the owner of Stargate One bookshop)<\/a> but feel that a great deal went over my head at the time and I have the memory of it being something intriguing that I should return to later in life. At the time I was starting to read writers like Le Guin, Heinlein and Clake. It&#8217;s later in life and &#8211; bearing in my my current noticing of the little synchronicities in life &#8211; probably time to give the first novel at least another read.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking nervously at my ever-increasing tsundoku&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another charity shop find! A mere \u00a31 for the trilogy of Stephen Donaldson&#8217;s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent, The Unbeliever. It&#8217;s a fantasy series started in the mid-1970s in that early wave of post-Toklien novels and I read the first volume way-way-back when I was in my middle-teens (recomended by the owner of Stargate One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}