Wednesday Reading

[sp23]

Just finished reading:

Pawn of Prophecy (Book 1 of the Belgariad) by David Eddings

Reading now:

Queen of Sorcery (Book 2 of the Belgariad) by David Eddings (a re-read for the umpteenth time. One of my favorite fantasy series

Comments

[liliaeth]

I loved most of Eddings early work. It's a pity that his final series was such a mess.

[sp23]

I love The Belgariad and The Malloreon, liked the next series with Sparhawk, and read all ten books, but never felt the need to go back and read them again. And I just could not get into his other books at all. It was a great disappointment to me.

[liliaeth]

Uhuh, I can read and reread the Belgariad and the Mallorean over and over again. And the Sparhawk series is ok.

But then I tried reading 'the dreamers' and it was a mess. It was like he took a short story, and tried to make it a full novel, by writing the same scene over and over but from different perspectives. Which is fine, if each new perspective ads something new to the story. but when it doesn't, after a while you just start skipping over the repeated scenes because you've already read them.

[sp23]

Yeah, I don't remember how much of the first book of the dreamers series I got through, but it wasn't very much before I realized that it just wasn't working for me at all. I think I may have tried another of his later books, but I must have wiped it from my memory because I can't remember anything at all.