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Yes, its been a long wait (though not as long as some others I remember),
but "Enchanter's Endgame" the fifth and final book in David Eddings Belgariad
just hit the stands. I recommend this whole series as one of the best to
come out in the last ten years.

				Jeremy Sanders
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>... "Enchanter's Endgame" the fifth and final book in David Eddings Belgariad
>just hit the stands. I recommend this whole series as one of the best to
>come out in the last ten years.
>				Jeremy Sanders

I, too, have been waiting for this to come out.  I started it Sunday
afternoon and finished it Sunday evening (with only one stop for
food).  As you might guess, i did enjoy it very much, but I do have
some complaints.  I feel rather let down by the ending of the book.
I don't know why, maybe I was just expecting him to do something
really original.  After all, the concept was good, his writing has
a quality and wit that is far too rare in this genre, the characters
were well drawn and (mostly) believable.  What more could I ask for?

[  ... Spoiler Alert ... Spoiler Alert ... Spoiler Alert ...  ]

Well, for starters, I wish that it didn't have such a @!##$@*!
Hollywood ending.  Everybody (well, almost) gets married and is
expected to "live happily ever after" (except Garion, his rather
forced marriage has all the seeds for a really hen-pecked husband).
I often felt that characters were thrown at each other and told
to be "in love" without getting a chance to know each other and
develop any sort of true understanding.  The best example is probably
Adara, the "true confession" scene wherein she expresses her love
for Hettar as she lies (she thinks) dying rings totally false.
It's just too contrived to feel true.  This applies to most of the
romances.  I'm not opposed to romance or happy endings, but I would
have liked a little more originality and a little less reliance on
old, worn-out formulae for a happy end.

In all, this book feels more rushed than the first four.  It seems
that the author lost control of some of his characters and relied
on cliche to carry them rather than maintaining the expressive
writing style that I was starting to expect from him.  Perhaps he
had too many people populating his book and tried to give them all
equal access to center stage, but didn't have the time to craft
each appearance for maximum effect.

Finally, the confrontation with Torak, though exciting, left me with
no real impression other than "Oh well, another Ultimate-Evil-in-the-
Universe-gets-destroyed-novel."  I'm tired of that sort of stuff,
why can't more fantasy literature take a realistic approach to this
subject, i.e. that evil resides in each of us, and that the true
war between good and evil lies in the internal struggle rather
than in destroying some great EVIL being. (sigh, I'll get off my
soapbox, now)  Whatever "technical and philosophical points" the
autnor was trying to develop apparently got lost in the telling
of one more good-destroys-evil fantasy story.  And that is very
disappointing, because he had the potential to do much better than
that.

I still recommend the series highly.  It's exciting, often humourous,
and has some of the most enjoyable characters I've seen in a long
time.  It stands far above most fantasy literature in quality and
concept.  Read it.

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Re: Enchanters' Endgame [message #89432 is a reply to message #89429] Mon, 24 June 2013 10:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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> 
> Yes, its been a long wait (though not as long as some others I remember),
> but "Enchanter's Endgame" the fifth and final book in David Eddings Belgariad
> just hit the stands. I recommend this whole series as one of the best to
> come out in the last ten years.
> 
> 				Jeremy Sanders
> 				aecom!sanders

YAAAAAHHHHOOOOOOO !!!!!!!  I've been waiting for a long time, now.
It's book store time for me...

	Ray Chen
	princeton!tilt!chenr

P.S. -- Second the above recommendation.
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Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Excellent Series!!!!!!!
 
 4 Stars or more!


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