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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No "essentially" about it. They were the same story... I'm not even sure the characters were different. 
Worst example of self-plagiarism I've ever seen. It got so bad in later series that he actually wrote excuses for it into the stories.
Still, the Belgariad is fantastic. I just recommend not reading any more Eddings after that first series. |
I somewhat disagree in that I think that the Malloreon series (continuation of the Belgariad series) is just as good. But the other stuff is just as you said the "Worst example of self-plagiarism I've ever seen".