"BillGill" <billnews2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Mandorallen wrote:
>> On 2008-01-18, Ce` <lalajia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> FWIW, I'd also avoid The Redemption of Althalus!
>>
>> I'm torn on Althalus. I enjoyed reading it the first time, even though
>> it felt like a rehash of all his previous fantasy works, and more than
a
>> little rushed.
>>
>> Those are the reasons I haven't read it since though, and why I'd
>> probably suggest just getting it from the library, reading it, giving
it
>> back, and then forgetting about it.
>>
>> Worth reading once, but probably not twice, IMO
>
> I've reread Althalus, but I don't read it along with his other books. I
> find that if I reread any of his other books I need to wait and read
> Althalus separately, like 6 months later. Then it seems to be fairly
> readable. Granted it isn't nearly as good a the Belgariad.
>
> Bill Gill
Althalus was an experiment in many ways, I think. It was Eddings first
foray
into the idea that people would buy any **** that he put on paper. It had
a
decent concept but was rushed, inconsistent, incomplete, and generally
slavishly dedicated to the ubermensch.
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