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Old 10-16-2010, 11:38 AM   #84
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Originally Posted by Ravensknight View Post
I've actually read [though I can't point to it right away] that Eddings was deliberately writing the same story tropes over and over to try to prove a point about fantasy books and the genre overall. If he wasn't doing that, he was a terrible writer after the Mallorean and his separate Elenium series ;-)
Not all of his books use this common plot, though. My favourite Eddings book, "The Redemption of Althalus", is a completely different story.

I'm pleased to see that what looks to be Eddings' entire output is available as eBooks (in the Amazon UK Kindle store, at least).
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