Books - Eddings - The Belgariad, and the others

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:24 pm

This is a series I remember mentioning on whatever iteration of forum we had 8 years ago, and peeps here generally scoffed at it and dismissed it as a "Rings" ripoff.

Well screw y'all.

I've already burned through the first 5-book cycle of The Belgariad, I'm in the second book of the second 5-book series, I have Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara the Sorceress, and The Rivan Codex to get through after I'm through The Mallorean, and this is a perfectly good way to spend about 4k (guessing) pages of light reading. Great characters, well-defined world, and just a good story overall.

It's great to read stuff like this every decade or so, when you've forgotten most of the details.

Screw you for judging me.

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Post by **thibodeaux** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:08 pm

Ghey.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:39 pm

Maybe, but it is epic gheyness.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:06 pm

Isn't this the "Cold War meets Tolkien" thing?

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:49 pm

No idea. Fantasy, a quest, interesting characters, a well-fleshed-out world with a history.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:43 pm

Just finished the second 5-book series. Just so very excellent.

Going to have to drag the next and final 3 books with me to California... and I have them in hardcover. Sigh. But I'm still looking forward to another couple thousand pages of goodness.

It's great to find a great book and reread it every 10 years, or so, after you've forgotten the details. It's like finding an old love and reliving the passion. Or something.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:14 am

Totally ghey.