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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I read and enjoyed the Belgariad. I plowed rather grimly through the Malloreon. People back then raved about the Belgariad, and made comments wishing it would go on forever. By the time I finished the Malloreon, I felt like it had.
Eddings was too determined to drag his characters to every part of their world, the authorial strings being pulled were too obvious, and things that were slight irritations, easily ignorable in the Belgariad, blossomed into full scale "pitch you out of the story" annoyances in the Malloreon. The whole thing wound up feeling like paint by numbers fantasy.
Subsequent Eddings works were no balm, as it became obvious he had one story to tell with one cast of characters, and the new series was the old series with the names changed and the serial numbers filed off.
Dennis
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I SO totally agree with you on Mallorean and his other series. I think I read the Rose queen or whatever and decided this was simply a rehash of Belgariad and haven't read any of his other works since (except for Polgara and the Belgarath books). The thing with me is that the Mallorean was a bit too long, I thought 3 books would have sufficed it (granted, they would be THICK books...) for the story to come together. But they brought out my favorite character (whom I closely resemble in many ways), Beldin.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The Eddings did quite well back when, as did the Clancy. I think the Asprin stuff did as well, though I was never a fan of the "Myth" or Phule" books.
The issue is whether the publishers involved see an ebook market, and are willing to create electronic editions. (They may no longer have the electronic files for the books, and would need to create them from scratch.
Rowling has refused to license electronic editions, for reasons I'm not clear on. I think it has to do with thinking her market is kids, and kids won't have readers. I don't think she realizes how many of her devoted readers are grownups.
Clancy may have as well, but I haven't seen anything on it. (I haven't looked, so I may well have missed it.)
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Dennis
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Well, there are a couple of his books that are out on Ebook form, but they are his collaboration crap that he puts out.
Rowlings I think is in more of a bubble than she realizes. That happens quite a bit with new money.