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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: I am surprised these other reviewers didn't like it. I, personally, loved the book! Eddings is an amazing foreshadower, giving you just enough info to know something's not quite right, but at the same time, he keeps things hidden, so that there are surprises! I can't wait to read the third one!
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Summary: Better than the belgariad
Review: I don't understand why people are so shook up about this book. All I keep reading is, 'same as the first', and 'reading about a prophecy that we know exists and who is going to win' and 'characters don't mature, except physically'...and so on.Firstly, I think those reviewers are either missing the point because it's so big or are being deliberately obtuse. Of course we know who's going to win. Nobody wants to follow a character for ten books just to find out he dies in the end. If Harry Potter dies in book seven, J.K. Rowling would never sell another book. The key is it isn't how it all comes out, because every story has to come out somewhere, but about how the author takes us there. Of course we know who's going to win, of course we can even guess how it's gonna happen, but I wanna know what happens IN BETWEEN. The struggles they go through to get to the confrontation, the new ideas and uses of Word and Will and the cleverness of Silk and all the rest. My suggestion is to stop being so needy and just go along for the ride. David Eddings characterizes like no other author alive, and he writes funny, entertaining fantasy books. Why be so cranky when the book doesn't turn out the way you want it to? No it isn't Tolkien (thank goodness) --- it's not even in the same league as that trash --- and it isn't like any other fantasy series I've ever read. Quit beeing needy, don't worry about how the thing comes out, and just enjoy the wit and humor and the trip! Man the trip in these books alone justifies the $7.50 I spend at Borders for each of these. I recommend this series to anyone intelligent enough to appreciate the story as one of it's own, and not compare it to Tolkien's garbage or Rowling's tripe. Read up!
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Summary: Better than the belgariad
Review: I don't understand why people are so shook up about this book. All I keep reading is, 'same as the first', and 'reading about a prophecy that we know exists and who is going to win' and 'characters don't mature, except physically'...and so on. Firstly, I think those reviewers are either missing the point because it's so big or are being deliberately obtuse. Of course we know who's going to win. Nobody wants to follow a character for ten books just to find out he dies in the end. If Harry Potter dies in book seven, J.K. Rowling would never sell another book. The key is it isn't how it all comes out, because every story has to come out somewhere, but about how the author takes us there. Of course we know who's going to win, of course we can even guess how it's gonna happen, but I wanna know what happens IN BETWEEN. The struggles they go through to get to the confrontation, the new ideas and uses of Word and Will and the cleverness of Silk and all the rest. My suggestion is to stop being so needy and just go along for the ride. David Eddings characterizes like no other author alive, and he writes funny, entertaining fantasy books. Why be so cranky when the book doesn't turn out the way you want it to? No it isn't Tolkien (thank goodness) --- it's not even in the same league as that trash --- and it isn't like any other fantasy series I've ever read. Quit beeing needy, don't worry about how the thing comes out, and just enjoy the wit and humor and the trip! Man the trip in these books alone justifies the $7.50 I spend at Borders for each of these. I recommend this series to anyone intelligent enough to appreciate the story as one of it's own, and not compare it to Tolkien's garbage or Rowling's tripe. Read up!
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Summary: Clever and witty
Review: I have enjoyed most everything David and Leigh Eddings have ever written. They have a fine touch with wit and cleverness, even when their characters are in deepest peril. The average reader can easily identify with (Bel)Garion, who has been thrust into the role of sorceror/king and is still getting used to his new responsibilities. Luckily he has his grandfather Belgarath, his aunt Polgara and plenty of other monarchs to help him out. He also has his natural intelligence to help him cope when his son Geran is abducted. He is often able to keep a cool head when others around him cannot. Most anyone who enjoys fantasy novels would enjoy Eddings's work. To Sarahjames: You would do well not to try to elevate Eddings's work at the expense of others, notably Tolkien. Many, many people would disagree with your assessment. They are far different stylistically, and ultimately to each his own.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I read and loved the Belgariad series, but I was so disappointed this time. Guardians of the West wasn't up to the same standard and King of the Murgos is awful. Wooden, predictable characters, cliched speech; the witticisms between the characters became tedious and the sudden revellations where character A urges character B to look closely at character C "You know who he is!" might have been believable the first few times, but quickly irritated. I shan't be completing this series: it's just an inferior re-run of the Belgariad.
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Summary: So average it hurts.
Review: Like all of David Eddings's books, this one is addled with repeated humor, predictability and worst of all, it is written in the pompous conservative David Eddings-style.
If you want to buy the 7th book in the series just for the sake of having the 7th book in the series even though it's identical to all the other books in the series, then by all means, buy it!
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Summary: By far my favorite in the series!
Review: O.k., so like an unobservant fool I picked up this book without reading the fine print that said "Book Two..." but was pleasantly surprised that I had 6 previous books to read and 3 more to follow! From the first scene in the tunnels I was hooked. A reviewer of another of DE's books called his dialogue "annoyingly cute" or something to that effect; I personally found it to be just the right amount of "cute" (although "cute" would not be my personal choice in words). The discussion of the meaning of the word "lost" in the first chapter was wonderful. The sarcastic humor of Silk is what makes me re-read the books over and over. He is by far my favorite character in any fantasy book I've read! Just thinking about it makes me want to read all 10 again! (I havent gotten around to the final 3-ie Belgarath... Pol...and that last one- but I'll tell you, if any character deserves his own book(s) it's Silk!!!!!!!)
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Summary: This book was a breath of fresh air!
Review: Quite simply this book is the most interesting book that Eddings has writen. I challenge anyone who disagrees!
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Summary: Great series!
Review: The Belgariad is a wonderful series. When I got to the last book I didn't want it to end. The Malloreon is just as well written, putting a wonderful ending on the Belgariad. All together, these are my favorite fantasy series.
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Summary: Surprise for the brothers!
Review: The part where Belgarath and the others find out that Urgit isn't really a Murgo was great! Boy, was Silk and Urgit surprised when they found out that they were brothers! And the amazing is that both Silk and Urgit negotiates bussiness as stunningly as good as the other
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