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Yep, the prologues were hard to get through but then you're fine and the books are so well written. If you were to see any of them walking your way you'd recognize them immediately. I still need to get them so my Captain can read them.
 
Hah... Yeah. I actually have the whole series, as well as the Separate books on Belgarath, and Polgara's lives. Mmm... Tasty Tasty books.
 
Yup. A good read. I enjoyed both the series with Garion and his crew.
 
If you read them carefully you'll find continuity errors in Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress when it comes to things in the series. For one thing in Polgara she mentions Prince Gerund, not Prince Geran- big difference. And there was never any proper explanation as to what the Task is Poledra had to do or what genders her children were. Deliberate on his part, I know but still annoying. And now he's dead so we'll never know. He and his wife wrote a lot of great stuff like The Redemption of Althalus. The only thing is that the main in that book is a character much like Belgarath. He had a tendency to reuse types. Look at the Elenium, you've got Polgara, Garion, C'Nedra... only they're a bit different.
 
Oh no my friend. Get Pawn of Prophesy and just read. If you're not hooked by the first paragraph of Chapter 1, then there's no hope for you. And If you've not read it then we've already given away too much I'm afraid.
 
Neither of those answers really help me decide if I want to pick it up or not, so in the absence of anything encouraging me to do so, I'm going to default to "not".
 
It is a very, very good series, in my opinion. That being said- it's good enough that I would hate myself for spoilers.
 
I agree that the series is a good read. Without giving away any details of the plot, I recommend it highly as a fantasy series to read.
 
You must change that to a 'yes'. Pick up Pawn of Prophesy and if you aren't hooked then, okay. But I think Eddings is one of those authors who is up there and is ignored. He's better, in my opinion, than Anne MacCaffrey.
 
Wow I have not read Anne MacCaffery in forever--I'm so hooked on Brandon Sanderson lately--The Mistborn trilogy and Warbreaker are some of my all time favorite fantasy books.
 
Have you read the Brandon Sanderson book 'The Emperor's Soul'? Another great read.


BTW, don't forget to post an initiative roll for the fight.
 
I do hope everyone is adding the bonuses for their respective MECT skills. The only reason I haven't is because Alexander is currently not in his mecha.


Captain Hesperus
 
JayTee said:
Neither of those answers really help me decide if I want to pick it up or not, so in the absence of anything encouraging me to do so, I'm going to default to "not".
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I'll tell you this if you read Sanderson--a lot of his books start out with stories that look like the same old tired tropes we have seen 1,000 time before. He takes old standbys like "the Heroes Journey" and turns them on their ear. I'm so tired of the same hackneyed stuff that I just love what he does.
 
[QUOTE="Captain Hesperus]I do hope everyone is adding the bonuses for their respective MECT skills. The only reason I haven't is because Alexander is currently not in his mecha.
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dammit I knew I forgot something--but even with that added I still be dead last so---oh well lol.
 
I saw that you didn't have it added in, so I did for you. Just doing my part.
 
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