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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I'd rather have someone borrow from Tolkien, than having him write bad fantasy. One example is David Eddings.
The Belgariad and Malloreon were very good young adult fantasy. The Elenium and Tamuli were on par with that, but basically, the stories were very much alike, especially both sets centering around sentient, all-powerful blue and red stones, and gods to be destroyed by the protagonist.
When writing The Dreamers, Eddings basically wrote the same book four times. It's the only series I've actually dropped, somewhere around 1/3rd of the third book.
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Agreed, I dropped the Dreamers after book 1. It was awful and clearly a clone of his previous books, down to the smart alecky gods and shabby wizards.
At least the Elenium/Tamuli, Sparhawk was a fun/weathered sort of grizzled character vs Garion in the Belgariad/Mallorean.