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Summary: Good reading... but the end wasn't enough.
Review: After reading through all six books (elenium and tamuli) I eagerly sought the ending to find out what happens... in the end, everything that had to be wrapped up was, but it missed a lot of stuff! Does Kurik's son, Khalad find Krager? Does Elron get skewered by Stragen? Are Sarabian's wives punished for betraying him? What happens to Kring and Mirtai (more to the point, how does the domi's tribe react to her presence), Will Ulath ever take Sarak's bones back to Thalasia?!?A little bit on Kalten's wedding might have been nice also (like, maybe "he lived happily ever after" or something suitably cloying along those lines) I'd maybe suggest a last book to tie the entire series back together... something taking care of all of the above mentioned and maybe what happens to Talen as a Pandion Knight (and princess Danae's pursuits concerning him). On the whole, worth reading, but if you hate loose ends, this'll drive you nuts!
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Summary: Excellent! David Eddings at his finest!
Review: An excellent conclusion to the Tamuli! Bravo! More! More!
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Summary: After finishing this trilogy my first response was "blah"
Review: As a big fan of Eddings' Belgariad and Elenium I was truly disappointed by what turned out to be a dull repetetive bore. The plot is in a word: STUPID. It can be entertaining enough while you wait for the next Robert Jordan book to finally come out, but on the whole I can not shake the feeling that Eddings is running out of ideas and/or was under heavy pressure from his publisher and had some undergrad English major ghost write this for him.
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Summary: An excellent sequel to the books in the rest of this series.
Review: David Eddings masters the written word and this book proves it. The book uses figurative language to describe everything from battles to scenery. Even thought its length is intimidating, Eddings uses every page for the plot, unlike some books which have nothing but filler. It is my recomendation that you read this and everything else written by David Eddings.
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Summary: Summa Cum Laude
Review: Eddings has done it again. The last book of the Tamuli trilogy, he wraps up another epic adventure of our favorite hero Sparhawk and his companions. Why read this book? My thoughts are because once you've bought and read The Diamond Throne and it's continuing books of the Elenium series, you'll be hooked. The Tamuli is just a continuation of the same characters further down the journey of time. We get reprisals of Sephrenia and Vanion, the Pandion Knights, Ulath, Tynian, Bevier, the Gods and Goddesses, Princesses and Queens, politics and Primates of the Church, new religions with a "pagan" and Eastern flavor. If none of these words entice your curiousity about this book, nothing will.
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Summary: Everyone who has reviewed this book is entirely correct.
Review: Everyone who put forth a review, both good AND bad, is right. True, the series became very repetitive near the end. ALL the characters with their one-liners, everyone murmuring "Be Nice" and all the casual violence. Yes, at the same time, the books were fairly hard to put down, they were a quick paced read. However, the last book, The Hidden City, the entire last half seemed rushed. It looked as though Eddings didn't know how to finish so he relied heavily on the concept that assorted Gods of Styricum wouldn't mind ferrying armies around. Armies, that in my opinion weren't really needed, as someone pointed out in another review, Sparhawk could have easily erased all the enemies and had his Queen back in a flash. But Eddings at the last minute came up with rather shallow "limits" along the lines of Scottie's transporter being broken when they most needed it. All in all, an entertaining book, but you do get tired of all the same sarcastic remarks by different characters, after awhile all their personalities sort of blend. I've read better books, as well as worse.
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Summary: Everyone who has reviewed this book is entirely correct.
Review: Everyone who put forth a review, both good AND bad, is right. True, the series became very repetitive near the end. ALL the characters with their one-liners, everyone murmuring "Be Nice" and all the casual violence. Yes, at the same time, the books were fairly hard to put down, they were a quick paced read. However, the last book, The Hidden City, the entire last half seemed rushed. It looked as though Eddings didn't know how to finish so he relied heavily on the concept that assorted Gods of Styricum wouldn't mind ferrying armies around. Armies, that in my opinion weren't really needed, as someone pointed out in another review, Sparhawk could have easily erased all the enemies and had his Queen back in a flash. But Eddings at the last minute came up with rather shallow "limits" along the lines of Scottie's transporter being broken when they most needed it. All in all, an entertaining book, but you do get tired of all the same sarcastic remarks by different characters, after awhile all their personalities sort of blend. I've read better books, as well as worse.
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Summary: Not so very bad
Review: Fantasy readers are very amusing. When they (once in a lifetime!) get a series with witty oneliners and genuinely sharp humour, they think it sucks. When they (once in a lifetime!) get an ending that doesn't drag on for 50 pages, they think it sucks. It seems to me that some people here are really missing the point. When I was 100 pages into Tamuli, I had a perfect grasp of what Eddings was doing; not a breathtaking, bone-crunching, millennial epic of some kitchen boy or other saving the world, but an elegant and well-crafted parody of the most ridiculous cliches of the genre. No wonder the vast majority of teenage fans didn't get it - and so Eddings had to go back to writing about Belgarath and some other old friends. I'm not saying this series is a masterwork. It started well, kept its pace well into the second volume, even most of this third one was very readable. What sucked was, yes, the end. Eddings made (again) himself to stop laughing, and this time he substituted it with sugary tears of sweet happiness. Not exactly my idea of a good time, but I can't altogether bash a book with a six-year-old goddess expressing her wish to eat somebody's heart. And the Trolls were especially hilarious.
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Summary: Rather disappointing....
Review: First time i read it almost four years ago.......and i liked it....loved it, actually..........Unfortunately, i picked it up again two weeks ago decided to read it once more. However, last time when i read this i had not read Jordan or Goodkind, and Eddings seemed the master of fantasy to me. This time i had, and this book showed me how much Eddings really does lack. It is a good series to read while waiting for Jordan or Goodkind to come out with their next book.....
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Summary: Let's have another series
Review: Having read some of the reviews prior to typing my 2 cents worth, I must confess to being a little surprised at some of the reviews. Having read the Belgariad and the Malloreon, I thought that both the Elenium and the Tamuli series were superior. Once I had started reading, it was always a shame to stop. The one reservation about the series was the ease with which Sparhawk's enemies are destroyed at the end. Having had Sparhawk and his friends running around madly for 3 novels, Cyrgon bites the dust in just 3 pages once the main event begins! Also, I have to agree with the comments about Caalador's accent - it really was annoying. What's worse, he was faking it! Aside from that (and it really is a very small issue), both of the Sparhawk series were great reads, with good characters, and I would like to see another seies. There has to be someone on the other side of their world that doesn't like them.
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