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Summary: I found this to be an entertaining read
Review: While Redemption isn't as good as the Belgariad series, I found it to be a highly entertaining read. I've read everything Eddings has written and will continue to buy anything else he publishes as I've never been dissapointed.I can recommend this one...
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Summary: Highlights
Review: This is the word I must to say about this book - highlights to the works of Eddingses. The best of. Funny, adventurous, with wonderful characters. What more to want?
Great book.
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Summary: I would give 0 stars if I could...
Review: Did anyone find this book a boring, pale, belgriad-in-one-book, predictable book? You can almost make a chart with plot lines taken from previous books, without one original idea...
I'm so sorry I read/bought this book!
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Summary: Too painful to finish reading
Review: While I have enjoyed Eddings previous work (Belegard saga), this book became too painful to finish reading. This has been mentioned in other reviews, and I am afraid I must agree -- this book is a tepid, unoriginal, and boring rehash of the plot, dialogs, and personalities of their earlier works. If you are looking for a good rainy day book, buy the Belegard series instead - even if you already own it, re-reading it will be more pleasurable than torturing yourself with this book. (This is public version of an earlier anonymous review)
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Summary: A few hours of my life that I want back
Review: This book seemed promising at first. The beginning, before Althalus meets Dweia (an incredibly irritating character, in my opinion) was actually pretty good. After that, the humor became stale and repetitive and more characters were introduced than I could keep track of. The plot--and I use the term loosely--was needlessly complicated, and everything happened too easily. The 'good guys' never ran into a problem they couldn't handle, which made this a *very* dull book. I'd never read Eddings before, and I don't think I'm going to touch the Belgariad after this. One star.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: As an avid reader of the fantasy genre, I have always viewed the Belgariad as one of the better series that have beenput out. I fondly recall the adventures of Garion and the way the Eddingses portrayed the age-old struggle between good and evil.
In the Redemption of Althalus, we find a similar struggle, but a plot that is devoid of any real interest or excitement. Often during the 700 page book, I simply wanted to put it down in frustration and boredom. I am not sure yet why I finished it. Perhaps it was out of deference for previous good work.
In Redemption, there are many characters, some of them interesting, but they are put into a mix of abysmal dialogue and very little in terms of plot twists or significant tension. Almost the entire time, the "good guys" are winning! So, the reder is subjected to one victory after another, poorly written and with little flare.
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Summary: so much fun
Review: I agree with another reviewer that too many people are giving this book a bad rap! Yes this book is similar to the plot of "The Belgariad" but so what!?! God forbid a FANTASY story have the plot line of "Man and group of friends embark on quest to stop and evil god and his minions w/help from a god god". I mean if a reacuring plot was a crime half of the greatest books ever writen would be considered trash!!! Yes, it seems worse because Mr. Eddings also wrote "The Belgariad", but so what, this book has enough originality to make it good. This book was simply a blast to read. I highly recomend this book to anyone who enjoys humor, action, fantasy, and a lil romance.
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Review: The Redemption Of Althalus was fairly good but i would rate it 3 stars compared to other books that he has written. Frankly i found that it resembled the Belgariad series a lot. The story was similar and the characters were almost exactly like the characters of the belgariad. For example, Althalus resembled Belgarath, and Andine resembled Ce'Nedra, and of course Eliar was almost exactly like Garion. Of course they all looked physically different but their personalities were very close. Overall, i liked the book but prefer the Belgariad series by far.
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Summary: Unimaginative, boring tripe.
Review: Looking for a good book to pass the summer away? Look farther. This book is a compilation of self-contradictions, weak characters, and a really, REALLY boring plot. The writing is essentially weak, the dialogue and descriptions are terrible. The book sounded like it had potential, but it was one of the most worthless and unimaginative fantasy novels I've ever read. Save the time you'd spend reading this book and do something more interesting with it -- like smacking yourself on the head with a hammer.
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Summary: I'm sure I've read this before...
Review: After reaching the halfway halfway mark for this book I was overwhelmed with a sense of deja-read -- I've read this book before. Double checking the title and publication date, I verified that this was, indeed, the first time I've read this title. Or was it? "The Redemption of Althalus," while not the latest from David and Leigh Eddings, is the last in a long series of Fantasy books that follows much the same plot as the others. Hero A goes off on a grand quest from Deity B to thwart the plots and machinations of Evil Deity C with the assistance of a colorful group of characters, D, E, F, G and H. For a long-time author, falling into a rut of this size is inexcusable. This is not to say that the book is completely unenjoyable. One things that the Eddings team does well is character and dialogue. However the same character templates are used from book to book. The perpetrators are the same -- only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, as it were. If you are a fan of David Eddings you'll be disappointed, but you won't find the book completely unreadable. If you're looking at this book as an introduction to the authors, you owe it to yourself to find a copy of "Pawn of Prophecy" and start with the good stuff.
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