In message <news:46125745$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
"~~ Shelly ~~" <~~ Shelly ~~@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> spoke these staves:
>
> Did anybody besides myself like "The Redemption of Althalus"?
I actually liked it as well.
It is difficult to gauge the quality properly when one has read both
the Elenium and the Belgariad (with various se- and prequels), because
much of the tone is the same. /The Redemption of Althalus/ (tRoA) is
certainly not original, but it is, IMO, arguably the best work Eddings
has written in that style. The other series has, IMHO, a tendency
towards the longwinded, which is somewhat reduced in tRoA, while
focusing on the Eddings' strengths and de-emphasizing their weaknesses
(world-building and plot-consistency is, for instance, not something
they should attempt to instruct others at -- despite of /The Rivan
Codex/).
All in all I think /The Redemption of Althalus/ to be one of their best
books, but to have relied too heavily on their successes in the former
fantasy works, and thus contain too few new elements.
--
Troels Forchhammer
Valid e-mail is <troelsfo(a)gmail.com>
It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
|
