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Summary: FLASH: Jerk Milks His Fans
Review: Clue Mr. Eddings: These collections are meant to be published after you are DEAD...but milking your loyal fans for this trash seemed better for your wallet, eh?Eddings wrote a semi-okay fantasy series that many love - good for him. Like Terry Brooks, he latched onto a genre with a somewhat small but incredibly loyal following and milked it for all it was worth. He was successful...and it all went to his head. Go to your local library and read this introduction. And then defecate on this lousy excuse to chop down trees. The sheer arrogance of this man is astounding, as is the superior tone that runs throughout most of this. Garbage through and through, only Eddings-stroking dimwits need apply.
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Summary: Good in some places, boring in others.
Review: I have read all of David and Leigh Eddings books and loved every one. This book answered a lot of my questions and clarified certain things for me but I was rather shocked at David Eddings attitude in the introduction. It didn't seem right to me that such a good series was writen by such an arrogant and presumptuous man. He should be incouraging budding new authors not ignoring them!!!
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Summary: Not a new story, but very interesting
Review: I really enjoyed this book; it was very informative and all that material (especially the Holy Books and histories) really made some things clear to me that didn't really come out in the Belgariad and the Mallorean. However, this is obviously NOT a story. It wasn't intended as a story, just a sort of compilation of all of the things that put the stories together. I'd only recommend this to people who have at least read the Belgariad in it's entirety, if not the Mallorean as well. But then, hey, who's picked up the Edding's series and put it down before the end?
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Summary: Best auther today
Review: I really liked the father daughter relationship between Belgarath and Polgara.It has been awhile since I read these books,and I'm excited about reading all of David Eddings books.
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Summary: A great follow up, for those who want to know
Review: I first must place my displeasure of all those who think is is a bad book. SCREW OFF!!! This is the kind of book for those who want to make an Eddings theme MUD, or who want to write a story in the same world (not to be published without the sayso of David of course). It may not be an actual story, but it great for people who just want to know other things. Though i think the next Eddings book should be about the history of the Ulgos, that would make for an interesting story for sure.
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Summary: waste disposal unit
Review: David Eddings has always been an arrogant jerk. This is not an opinion, this is a fact. This book manages to capture that smug attitude and arrogance, and combine it with a load of the most boring reading you will ever come across. he finally admits that he could care less about the genre, and writes to make money - and then goes on to tell the readers that they can't do, they don't have "it" like he does, and to give up. Oh, yeah. And he provides some back writing for his little fantasy world which pays his bills. Not terribly interesting reading, mind you - this is no Silmarillion - and this is supposed to be complete. Heck, at least Tolkien had a good excuse to publish incomplete writings that were not up to par with his best stuff...he was dead. This is milking it. And it comes as no surprise from the jerk who is David Eddings.
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Summary: Borish, pedantic nonsense!! DO NOT BUY!!!
Review: David Eddings is easily one of the best living fantasy authors around, but this is ridiculous. The Rivan Codex is far too detailed to be enjoyable, and it serves only to recount and clarify aformentioned events that Eddings has already written ENOUGH about. Die-hard Eddings fans want NEW material, not old stories retold!
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Summary: it is a VERY VERY BAD BOOK
Review: The only saving thing about this book is that it is written by david/leigh eddings.After 13 books in the series it is getting boreing.This book is just everything in the other books without one thing it is not a story. I salute the eddings couple for trying to milk money out of the belgaraid but enough is enough
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Summary: Warning: This is not a story!
Review: This book is for die hard fans of the belgariad and the mallorian only. It is more like an encylopedia than a book, it is a very detailed history of Garion's world, but it is a bit boring at times
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: A great follow-up to his other series', The Belgariad and The Mallorean. It has the real historical books such as the Book of Torak and the Book of Aloria that you only got to read bits and pieces of at the beginning of his books. I only wish this wasn't his last book on this incredible story.
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