Stuff you know WAY too much about

**coqauvin** · 04-08-2009, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by captain castle

David Eddings is kind of my family standard for reading. Me and my brother and sister have read Belgariad/Mallorean 4 or 5 times each lol

But weirdly enough I hated his other work. I felt like he was just writing Belgariad again, but with different names.

yeah, you're not the only person to think that. He unashamedly admit to rewriting the same story again in the Mallorean, claiming that history can't move forward and everything has to happen again until the EVENT takes place. It made reading Belgarath and Polgara very easy.

He totally rips off his own characters for the next one - not identical, but the same sort of traits. I mean Talen = Silk, Aphrael = Ce'Nedra with Polgara's power, Sparhawk is a Garion/Belgarath combo, Kalten is Barak, Kurik and Durnik are pretty much completely identical, Bevier is Mandorallen, Ulath is also Barak and Tynian is Lelldorin without the retarded romanticism.

And then he did it again with the Redemption of Althalus, where every character there is a carbon copy with a couple differences from his characters in the Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli.

In his defense, he is a pretty good storyteller, so I didn't mind it too much, but you know.

**captain castle** · 04-08-2009, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by coqauvin

yeah, you're not the only person to think that. He unashamedly admit to rewriting the same story again in the Mallorean, claiming that history can't move forward and everything has to happen again until the EVENT takes place. It made reading Belgarath and Polgara very easy.

He totally rips off his own characters for the next one - not identical, but the same sort of traits. I mean Talen = Silk, Aphrael = Ce'Nedra with Polgara's power, Sparhawk is a Garion/Belgarath combo, Kalten is Barak, Kurik and Durnik are pretty much completely identical, Bevier is Mandorallen, Ulath is also Barak and Tynian is Lelldorin without the retarded romanticism.

And then he did it again with the Redemption of Althalus, where every character there is a carbon copy with a couple differences from his characters in the Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli.

In his defense, he is a pretty good storyteller, so I didn't mind it too much, but you know.

No I got why the mallorean was a clone, but the story where the dude had the magic books or something, about the thief or whatever? It was the exact same ha ha

**Crysack** · 04-09-2009, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by coqauvin

yeah, you're not the only person to think that. He unashamedly admit to rewriting the same story again in the Mallorean, claiming that history can't move forward and everything has to happen again until the EVENT takes place. It made reading Belgarath and Polgara very easy.

He totally rips off his own characters for the next one - not identical, but the same sort of traits. I mean Talen = Silk, Aphrael = Ce'Nedra with Polgara's power, Sparhawk is a Garion/Belgarath combo, Kalten is Barak, Kurik and Durnik are pretty much completely identical, Bevier is Mandorallen, Ulath is also Barak and Tynian is Lelldorin without the retarded romanticism.

And then he did it again with the Redemption of Althalus, where every character there is a carbon copy with a couple differences from his characters in the Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli.

In his defense, he is a pretty good storyteller, so I didn't mind it too much, but you know.

I was thinking the same thing but hey, that's why they call it a guilty pleasure.