I do enjoy eddings work, good plot, but by god, he gets repetitive. Every character has to make some sort of dry crack after a fight "Are you okay?" "They arent." If I read "'Be nice' (character x) murmured" one more time, Im going to freak out. How can -every- person in the world use that phrase? Its getting to be boring formula. Same thing with "Oh, I do love you" (x) said, nestling her head into (blanks) neck". Once or twice, fine. 15- 20 times or more comes across as stilted and forced. It wouldnt be so bad if the Malloreon and other Belgarath books were the only ones like this, but the Sparhawk series is just like this too. Im having to force myself to finish this because the above problems are getting really distracting and aggravating. Good grief.

David Eddings is the master of fantasy. I have read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I have read so many fiction books that sometimes i confuse fantasy and reality but I know a great book when i read it and David Eddings books are just that. They have all the elements of fiction Magic, Sorcery, Intiuge, Creatures that exist nowhere else, and a world with a past and present so finely detailed that you swear its almost real... if you could only find the door. Some claim his books are predictable that good always wins but if some thing wasnt just a little bit predictable we would all probly take to our beds to frightened to go on.

We all belive Belgarion and the Orb will win and good will once again prevail but again and agian our minds fill with doubt as Eddings tests that belief. If we all wernt so fascinated with the series and the doubts it gives us we would have stopped reading long ago.

But we havent stopped .That alone speaks for it self.

i've been reading paperbacks (adventures, sci-fi, police stories, etc) for years now. but when i came across david edding's book 3 of the tamuli (the hidden city), i can hardly wait to locate our local bookstores for tamuli's book 1 and 2. when at long last i had them and read them, i hungered for more of david eddings. so i made sure i have the complete books of the elenium (diamond throne, ruby knight, sapphire rose). as i encountered the reader's comments on the belgariad and the malloreon, i think i still have so much to get from eddings (therefore saving a lot of money to buy the 10 sets! uggh). anyway, where else can you find the most wondrous of stories, the whims, the humors, written in the most easily understood words? I am so engrossed and influenced by the books that i borrowed the name of one of his characters in the elenium and tamuli--the mightiest name and the god of all gods--bhelliom. thank you mr. eddings, for giving us stories like those of yours, which we could pass onto our future children and grandchildren. Congratulations!!! Your works are more than a five-sta