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Summary: Eddings should have stayed with the Belgariad/Mallorean.
Review: It's not good enough to be satisfying ,there is too little action and too much politics and i hate politics. The three stars i give are going out to Sparhawk and Kalten.they are the only ones who make me laugh(a little).I'm not going to read book nr.3
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Summary: Not Bad.
Review: Not the best of the series (that honor belongs to The Hidden City), but a good book overall. While I didn't like Sephrenia's bigotry near the middle, I realize that it creates a gaping window into her history and her character. I hope that he might continue the adventures of this troupe in another series.
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Summary: One of the best books out there today!
Review: The Shining Ones by David Eddings is a New York Times best seller published by Del Ray Fantasy. This book is about a Padion Knight named Sparhawk who travels all over his world with his loyal companions. His traveling companions consist of the child goddess Aphrael, Queen Ehlana, Talen a young knight (a thief in his own time), Sephrenia (a Sytric Socceress), Khalad (Sparhawk's Squire), Tynian, Ulath, Kalten, Biver (who are all Padion Knights from different orders), and Mirtiai a giantess just to name a few. Oh, and a couple thousand soldiers. These people must fight many strange creatures such as Trolls, Drawn-Men, and long dead soldiers raised from the grave. They must also learn about the elusive and mysterious "Shining Ones". Here is a quote from this wonderful book. "That fog's moving straight toward us, and it's bringing the light with it. I don't like the feel of this, Sparhawk," Kalten said, drawing his word.
The glowing fog-bank divided and flowed around the hill upon which they stood. And as it drew near, Sparhawk could make out the shapes of bodes within the blur of light.
Sehrenia shrieked, "Defiled ones! Foul and accursed!" But the lights in the fog never faltered as they continued their glowing, inexorable advance.
"Run! Run for your lives! It's the Shining Ones!" You won't put this book down. It is so suspenseful that you will be sucked into it until you are finished with the story. If you do not like suspense, action, plot twists, and magic don't read this book. All in all this is just plain a great book. You should definitely go out and get your own copy.
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Summary: Oh my god it's so slow!
Review: This book as an OK story if you can stand reading it long enough to get to some of the good parts. All they do for most of the time is talk about strategies and the past and other boring topics that sometimes don't even matter. The jokes aren't even funny in this book. I've read some good books by David Eddings but this is DEFINITELY not one of them.
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Summary: The best book I've read
Review: This book is full of adventure and fun. A great book for ages 13 and up
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Summary: A good book, not super great, but worth reading,
Review: This book was about adventure and love, er, friendship. Eddings catpured manny views of wizardry, honor, and intelect. This was a good book, and it IS worth reading.
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Summary: Another great one from Eddings!
Review: This series is not as good as the belgariad but is still great
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Summary: A Great book!!
Review: This was the first book of David Eddings that I read, and it started me onto his writing right away. A wonderful plot, there wasn't a slow part in the whole story. To those people who said this book was awful, what were you THINKING? Congradulations on a great book, Mr. Eddings!
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Summary: It is great and so is the writter
Review: To all you people who kept on saying that this book wasn't as good as his last books your right it didn't have the same exciting story but if you had just written a ton of great books like Eddings has you would slack off a bit too if it was one of your lastn series as for the book I have seen better but usually those better books were written by authors in either the start of the wrighters carrer or in the middle not at the end. dear Mr. Eddings I don't know if you will ever see this but comming from an extremely devoted fan I LOVE YOUR BOOKS! This book was part of a terrific story.
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Summary: Full of typical stereotypes a la Eddings
Review: When I read the first book of Eddings' Tamuli trilogy ('Domes of Fire') several years ago, I was disappointed because Eddings just tried to repeat his success of the previous Elenium trilogy by featuring the same cast of characters and mixing them up with an all too familiar threat from evil foes, who'd just be there to offer Prince Sparhawk's crew of Pandion Knights some sparring partner for their, admittedly amusing, undertakings.
Now, some years later, I picked up 'The Shining Ones', because I had felt it was time to give Eddings a new chance. Oh, boy, how wrong I was.
The Shining Ones is just another string of Pandion Knights antics who stroll across the land pretending to fight for right and justice. Justice? Heck, Eddings' heroic knights are in fact nothing but a bunch of self-righteous, arrogant and brutal bullies, who order the murder of hundreds of humans just because they happened to work for the wrong side (not knowing how ill advised they've been when they chose that side) and whose biggest concern appears to be making the most wittiest comments. Sorry, I rather live without such a band of 'heroes'.
But not enough, the plot itself is horrible. The so-called enemies are plainly brushed aside like leaves in the autumn wind by Eddings' oh-so-kewl Prince Sparhawk and his omnipotent jewel Bhellion. The major informations necessary to understand the evil side's schemes are revealed by a mind-reading witch, thus successfully killing all suspense for the reader. And the name-giving Shining Ones, who are carefully built up in the first half of the book as an unpredictable force to be reckoned with, just get assimilated into the ever growing bunch of flawless heroes assembled around Sparhawk, his perfect wife Queen Ehlana, and the plainly bothersome Child Goddess. Bleh.
So, how many times will Eddings write a tiring tale about a group of witty heroes set out to rescue the world from some evil forces who are doomed to get wiped away by the protagonists who never err nor fail? I hope not many more: The Police Academy movie series also stopped after the sixth sequel....
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