> From: ritu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fwiw, I agree with you. I am not sure what tips the balance in favour > liking TC but I do think that the chances of liking the > series go up if > you read the books in your early twenties or later.
I read the first TC trilogy when I was in high school and loved it. But I absolutely loathed the second trilogy. IIRC, everything I liked about the first series was hacked up and destroyed in the second. > True. I didn't really have strong reactions to Eddings either way. The > first Eddings I read was pleasant enough but then I got tired > of meeting > the same characters under different names in different books. I am > really not *that* enamoured of the concept of reincarnation. :) Eddings is very good. But I agree that he hasn't had an original idea in a while and keeps telling the same old story over and over and over again. At this point I'm waiting to see what he does next and hopefully it won't be the Belgariad over again. (I remember when the Elenium series came out, in recommending it to me, one of my friends said, "At least it's not the Belgariad again.") > These sound good. I'll see if I can find any here. Another fantasy > series I enjoyed was the 'Mistress of the Empire' series by > Jenny Wurts > and Raymond Feist, primarily because of all the political > intrigues. :) I really liked that series as well. It was surprisingly good. Have you read Wurts "Cycle of Fire" series? I enjoyed that one as well. (Couldn't get past the first book in her "Light and Shadow" series. Yuck.) Feist on the other hand... I loved the early books in the Riftwar Saga but he seems to have about run out of ideas now. I've given up on the last few books... - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
