The burn'd fool's wandering finger.

[davywavy]

After a certain amount of thought, I think I'm going to re-read The Belgariad.

Comments

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

o_0

Why?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Because when I was 13 I thought it was the coolest thing in the history of cooldom, and as I have no real recollection of it now I'm curious what was going through my head.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

So, for science, then? That seems reasonable.

I hope they are enjoyable!

[borusa.livejournal.com]

I stare at you, then burst out laughing.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Some things never change. Never.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

yeah, see this was precisely my response.

[davedevil.livejournal.com]

If you want someone to come around to your house and kick you repeatedly in the nuts while you stick pins in your eyes you just need to ask!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've you insist on quoting the Labour Party manifesto on my LJ I'm gonna have to unfriend you.

[davedevil.livejournal.com]

If only :P

[hobbsthepenguin.livejournal.com]

I could suggest by far better books and series. Or if you want, you can read the condensed version, also by David Eddings, which is called the Redemption of Althus, or some such.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I am going to be supportive in this. I think there are worst things you could be reading.

If, however, I hear you are going back to 'Polgara the Sorceress', I don't think I'll ever be able to respect you again.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

There are worse things I could be reading. I have, however, read all those as well.

Mummy, daddy and baby adventurer go for a walk in naughtyland

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Is this on the premise that it surely can't be as bad as you remember?

Re: Mummy, daddy and baby adventurer go for a walk in naughtyland

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually. Pretty much.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

I enjoy those books as the worst sort of brain candy, having read them at an impressionable age. I reread them all now and then. I still have to wonder: why on earth would you do this?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Sheer curiousity, more than anything.

The horror, the horror...

[(Anonymous)]

That about sums it up.

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

I agree with you - it was the coolest things I had had ever read at the time and I remember insisting on taking one of the Mallorean books with me to my primary schools 'adventure' trip to Wales...

I think that as long as you read it in the same context as Dan Dare or the A-Team or anything else that was awesome to your younger self its probably fine.

However, it might also be that it was one of the first high fantasy type books I ever read, so all the clichés weren't cliché to me yet.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

I threw my copies off Beachy Head around 15 years ago in a ritual designed to make myself feel better about the enormous waste of time reading it was. I think the first two books of the Malloreon went over too, as I'd persisted that far through the saga in the vain hope that Something might actually Happen.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I read the first couple of books of the Mallorean and then I hit puberty and never learned how it ended.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Or you could just pick up and read a completely different Eddings series because a significant number of his stories are the exact same thing anyway.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I started readin ghe Malloreon at the time, but never finished it. I wasn't planning to try again now.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Actually, I appear to have got rid of all my copies in the past. If the offer is still open, please pass them on through my bro'.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

They may give you confidence in your ability to become a published author, should you so desire. "If THIS can not only get published, but do well....."

[thefon.livejournal.com]

I have a complete set of The Belgariad to give away, if anyone on this thread wants them?