The One Book to... RULE THEM ALL

[HomeLAN]

Just don't give him the Belgarath and Polgara books. They totally ruined it for me.

Oh, I'll agree with that. The rest, however, are excellent - never mind the fact that our kiwi perfectionist seems to disagree.

 

[BeardofPants]

Sure, sure, what's not to like : one-dimensional characters, predictable storylines, a boy with a special sword... Meh.

 

[HomeLAN]

Substitute Hobbit for boy and ring for sword, and I've heard folks voice the same opinion of the trilogy.

 

[Professur]

Spoiler Eddings admitted he pretty much plagerized the Belgariad from the Lord of the Rings. Sparhawk was his attempt to redeem himself. But pretty much all he did was further condense the same character traits into fewer characters.

 

[BeardofPants]

Substitute Hobbit for boy and ring for sword, and I've heard folks voice the same opinion of the trilogy.

Well, they'd be wrong.

<edit> and it's not a trilogy [/pedantic]

 

[HomeLAN]

Spoiler

When you get a minute, I'd like to see your source for that. It's new to me.

 

[Professur]

His third "extra book" The Elder Gods, I think.

Edit Nope. The Rivan Codex.

 

[unclehobart]

Sure, sure, what's not to like : one-dimensional characters, predictable storylines, a boy with a special sword... Meh.

Sounds like Robert Jordan.. bleh.

 

[BeardofPants]

I'm not sure, but I think it's better than Robert Jordan's WoT (IOW, I can't decide which series bugs me more). Both have a similar degree of 'lack-of-development', and daft, annoying, naive young male characters as their leads.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I always though his books were a rip-off of the Terry Brooks fiascos "Sword of Shannara" Trilogy, which was a complete rip-off of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Hobbit doesn't count because it's just a refamiliarization of Middle Earth...)

 

[tonksy]

Uh...The Hobbit was written before The LOTR.