The One Tree (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 2)

by Stephen R. Donaldson
The One Tree (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 2)
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1161 ratings, 3.87 average rating, 19 reviews (more data...)
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June 1997 (first published 1982) by Del Rey

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Paperback

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Unknown

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0345418476   (isbn13: 9780345418470)

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Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge ...more






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Valerie
Valerie rated it: 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars
09/21/08

bookshelves: cypresslibrary, fantasy-sf
Read in January, 1985
recommended to Valerie by: Jeff
The original anti-hero, paving the way for all those who were not good by the conventional sense.
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Peter
11/29/08

bookshelves: fantasy
Read in November, 2008
Not a bad book. One complaint I have is that there are too many instances where someone could have warned Covenant, but for whatever vague reason, they didn't and then he almost makes the wrong decision when he is stopped and the person that, for whatever reason, couldn't warn them before all of a sudden can warn them. Anyway, I do like Covenant and have learned to like the new character, Linden, but this, while interesting, is slightly less interesting than the original chronicles. Here's h...more
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Rob
07/21/07

Read in January, 1988
Another series I did in one long weekend, this was probably one of the most influential series I read during high school. For some reason I absolutely hated the main character Thomas Conevenant (probably because he was an ass) and my one driving passion was to keep reading until he was killed off. Until of course the last book in the second series where I got over it and decided he should live and then he was killed off.

As an interesting aside, this series made it remarkably less li...more
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Gaither
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11/05/08

Read in January, 2008
As with all the other Thomas Covenant novels, it is at times a little slow, nearly always grim/depressing, and periodically a bit frustrating. But despite all that, it is a fairly good read. Perhaps the biggest allure is the very striking psychologic undertones. Each of the supporting characters is a veritable archtype for some aspect or another of the human psyche, and the main characters are very well-developed.
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Alexander
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06/21/08

Read in June, 2004
This series is a good example of me reading books just because I hate not finishing or I hate not knowing the ending of a series. The only problem with these is that he keeps writing them. The main reason that I do not like this series is that I do not like the main, main character Thomas Covenant. I think not liking the main character is a little bit of a problem. Don't you think?
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Jay
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06/12/08

See review for Book 1 in 2nd chronicles.
Note of interest - cover artwork published outside the US for the ship in the story (by Peter Goodfellow) bore striking resemblance to the LP album cover for Sail On Sailor: Mustard Seed Faith. Great book, fascinating plot and characters.
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Nigel
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03/12/07

I read this as a teenager, and found it to be a real page-turner - it's about a character afflicted by leprosy, who moves between two different dimensions, each one with its own rules of time and space. For some reason I identified with the themes as a teenager. I can't imagine why.
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Taylor
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05/19/08

recommended to Taylor by: my father
recommends it for: more mature readers
Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery find that the answer to healing the Land is far away, where the Elohim live, the ancient people who never die, and live as animals or trees or other forms of nature.
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Ben
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04/05/08

bookshelves: fantasy_and_sci-fi
Read in March, 2008
Stephen Donaldson rapidly grows in my estimation. Not only does each new book introduce me to new vocabulary (about which I am unashamedly nuts), the characterization is superb and the writing is great.
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David
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08/05/08

Continues the saga begun in the first book. I read these in the early 1980s and meant to go back and look at the first trilogy, but never got around to it. They are now a bit hard to find.
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Dev
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05/17/07

Donaldson's unique talent for delivering fantasy in a way that's literary, quiet, and yet still very absorbing has always been a mystery to me.
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Mike
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08/01/08

Pure fantasy. A leper traveling between reality and a fantasy kingdom where he is a reluctant hero.
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Paul
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11/27/07

This is starting to get painful. Why do I do this to myself? 6 months. 6 bloody months to finish!
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--tw
08/10/08

My formative years. Perhaps I'll try some recent stuff to see if he's just a schlockmeister.
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Daniel
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08/05/08

Unfortunately not a stand alone book. Also nowhere near as good as the 1st Chronicles.
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Hadas
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10/29/07

bookshelves: fantasy-sci-fi
At this point I was so sick of the writing but wanted to know what happened next.
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Tommy
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09/07/08

Continues to be an outstanding series.
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Kirk
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04/15/08

Read in May, 2008
Nothing goes well for the main character.
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Kathywelch
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09/03/08

See book 1 of the earlier series
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Mimx
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01/09/09

Read in January, 2009


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