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Originally Posted by PKFFW
I loved them all when I first read them and re-read them all a couple of times when I was younger. Then I tried re-reading them when Eddings died. I guess my tastes had changed too much as I just didn't enjoy them this time. That was kind of sad. 
As a separate question, does anyone else feel that the Mallorean was more or less a re-telling of the Belgariad and the Tamuli very much a re-telling of the Elenium? |
That's kind of the point and a recurring theme for Eddings. Of course, it's not so much a re-telling as the idea that events keep repeating themselves until the final resolution. The idea goes way back. One sees it in a number of mythologies and Eddison's classic "The Worm Ouroboras" is an example of a similar theme.