I adored all the characters in both Rift War Saga’s but I can agree that the Empire series was possibly more intriguing in pure storyline. Terrible! Oh boo-hoo I read them all, several times, and enjoyed them over and over. You could literally, in some cases, point to characters and designate a character name from earlier series. Everything after that was a regurgiattion of his early books with new names. I like the direction Brooks has taken the story by linking the Knight and the Void series.ĭavid Eddings, alas, also took a turn for the worse with the Redemption of Athalus. It's been a while since I read it though. Have you ever noticed that Raymond E Feist opens every chapter with a 2-5 word sentence then opens a new paragraph? At least he does in his later books, and he has in Chapter 1 of the Magician. And really, Pug? What kind of name is that for the protagonist! I enjoyed the Empire series Raymond E Feist co-authored with Janny Wurts much more. I enjoyed Magician but it's not one of my favourites. The next couple aren't too bad, although nowhere near the class of the first, but after that the drop off on quality is astonishing. I dunno.Stephen King sure seems to have quite a few.Ĩ December 2011 at - it's amazing what you can get away with once you have an audience and you've engendered enough goodwill from a great first book. Maybe we all have one or two good stories in us. His others just seemed like he was trying to reuse the same story for money. Too bad he's dead /sniff.įor the record, those were his best books. He wrote ten books in the Belgariad and Malorian.he told his story.and never went back.

The Shannara books have jumped the shark and need to be put down.

I'm discovering this with Terry Brooks as well. Really? How do they keep getting published? Oy. I was going to return to the world at some point (the last book I read was a Darkness at Sethanon some twenty years ago), and I am dismayed that you say that they all are terrible.

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