David Eddings Options

[nome]

Eddings... lots to say. excellent books.

I've read his Belgariad and Mallorean series (I place them next to Redwall, Tolkein, and Rowling), but haven't gotten my hands on the other books. anyone read them?

and I would LOVE a big discussion on his books.

~Nome

[allie kiwi]

I was given the Belgariad series as a leaving gift when I finished after school work at a bookstore, and went off to University. I swore a great swear that I would 'make them last'. Yeah right - I began reading on Friday night and didn't stop til I'd finished all 5. Only the first couple of the Mallorean had been published then, and I haunted bookstores waiting for each new one to come out.

At first I was put off by the high style writing of the prologues, but once I began the story proper I was hooked. Eddings has such a wonderful sense of humour, and you really get to know the people and places they inhabit. I love the characterisation in the stories, although I agree that the women are quite polarised. I really think I could meet Silk or Belgarath in the street and know what they would say!

To be honest, I read the Tamuli series and just could not get into them. I read them the once, having gotten them from the library, but I have never been inspired to get them out again, nor buy them. If I remember correctly, it was a silly reason that put me off. Is Sparrowhawk (I think that was the name) quite a lot older than Ariel? That is something that always irks me - a big age difference.

Yes, yes, I know that Polgara is a couple of thousand years older than Durnik, but that is different - she is older for a reason. (I'm inconsistent, I know ) With Sparrowhawk and Ariel it is generational, rather than eons of living for a set purpose, and then a bride/husband at the end for a happy-ever-after ending. (Silk and Velvet irk for a simlar reason)

Allie