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Old 01-22-2012, 07:45 AM   #12106
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To offer an alternate viewpoint, it's my very favourite Eddings book. I think it's great.
Now that's interesting. I just found it was dull - no sense of peril at all, since the heroes had so much power.

Certainly there were bits that were fun, but the overall story wasn't very good, IMO.

Also, I felt that

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the 2,500 year gap in the action wasn't paid enough attention. Apart from using iron sword instead of bronze, and a few trees having been cut down, it seems that the language and everything else stayed remarkably the same.

Note that the bronze age/iron age transition happened only 2,600 years ago in the UK....
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