David Eddings

[Witch_King]

I'm going to re-read the Belgariad and the Mallorean. Sorry if I spelt those slightly wrong. Anyway, this is a 10 book series. There are also now 2 additional new books that go along with it, and infact a third book about the author himself and his ideas about his own series. Now Eddings has 2 addition 3 book series involving the same characters and infact I myself consider those 6 books part of the series overall but I saw that on amazon.com they thought otherwise. Anyway, I did not finish 'The Lord Of The Rings', however with those books I can still wait because there are 3 movies, one comming out each year.

The David Eddings books were great the first time I read them. This was about 10 years ago. A long long time ago...

[Stoned_Coder]

I love your taste in books dean. Try out the riftwar saga by raymond e. feist too. This starts with a book called magician. They are excellant. Also the book of words by j.v.jones which is a small 3 book series that is also excellent.The first book in that series is called the bakers boy.

[EvenFlow]

The Redemption of Althalus was one of the worst books I've ever read. The Belgariad is really good, but the Mallorean is pretty much the same but isn't as original.

[basilisk]

i loved the belgariad (must have read it multiple times) but agree with the above the redemption of althalus has really lost the plot (i got bored after a couple of hours)... i am afraid terry pratchett rules at the moment and douglas adams of course

[Witch_King]

I don't think I'll ever read 'The Redemption of Althalus'. I considered downloading it as a Microsoft Reader e-book, but I read all the bad reviews and decided otherwise.

I think this book is much different than Eddings original series such as the Mallorean and Belgariad, Tamuli and Elenium.

I'll look up j.v.jones. See, I just moved into a new home and it is like paradise here, and I want to relive some books I read about a decade ago. I want to see what they are like now. Than I intend to write my own book. Actually I have the plot already. It's not so much fantasy as horror.

I'm glad others liked these books. Remember that Eddings is about 85 years old now. At least I though that he was old, because I remember looking it up about 5 years ago, thought he was 80. I guess I should confirm this because I could be wrong.

[basilisk]

70 years - born 1931

http://www.sffworld.com/authors/e/eddings_david/

have read the elenium and tamuli as well and they were okayish