Re: Hmmm...Is anyone still here? And, should I read the new books?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:08:06 GMT, Mandorallen <Mandorallen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On 2007-03-27, Daniele Pennese <daniele.pennese@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:39:52 +0000, William Marnoch
>><william@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>After The Redemption of Althalus and The Elder Gods I decided against
>>>reading any future Eddings books, unless they somehow got good
>>>reviews. The reviews for the later books in The Dreamers seem to be
>>>even worse than the reviews of the first book.
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>> What's basically different from the so loved previous sagas? I'm
>> asking because i've recently discovered Eddings and i'm planning to
>> read all his works...however i've heard only bad comments about the
>> dreamers

The biggest problem with The Dreamers is that the quality of the
writing and dialogue and characterisation  is abysmal, far inferior to
The Elenium, for example, and Eddings didn't seem to be putting any
effort into the writing. 

The Redemption of Althalus isn't quite as bad, but it does suffer from
poor characterisation (except for the main character) and poor
plotting (the bad guys never seem to have a chance of winning and the
ending is pathetic). 

>By all accounts (not having read them myself), there's not a lot of
>difference at all, which is the problem. He's basically recycled plots,
>characters, and events from his previous books, meaning that if you've
>read everything else, you've basically already read the Dreamers series.

That's part of it, but it isn't just reusing previous elements, it is
reusing previous elements and not using them as well as in the earlier
books. 


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William Marnoch

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