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Against All Things Ending

The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant • Book 3

3.71 ABR Score (5.1K ratings)
★ 3.92 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.06 Audible (379)
33h 11m Released 2011 Fantasy

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Donaldson ends the world in chapter one — and then dares you to sit with the fallout for 33 hours.

  • Great if you want: dense, consequence-heavy epic fantasy that never takes shortcuts
  • Listening experience: slow and weighty — existential dread sustained over days of listening
  • Narration: Reynolds commands Donaldson's dense prose with measured, brooding authority
  • Skip if: you haven't read the earlier Chronicles — this rewards no newcomers

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About This Audiobook

Against All Things Ending is the third novel in The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, following the catastrophic consequences of Linden Avery's resurrection of Covenant, which has awakened the Worm of the World's End. With Linden searching for her adopted son Jeremiah and Covenant's fragmented mind offering little guidance, the survivors of the Earthpower era must confront dangers that dwarf anything the earlier chronicles contained.

Tim Gerard Reynolds narrates Donaldson's dense, archaic prose with a controlled authority that handles the series' characteristically complex moral architecture. The thirty-three-hour runtime requires exactly the kind of deliberate pacing Reynolds brings, and his performance gives the novel's epic ambitions a human scale through careful attention to the characters' individual voices.