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# Yep
All the best trilogies are in 5 parts :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:08, archived)
# except
when David Eddings writes them.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:10, archived)
# Now hang on,
I rathre liked the Belgariad and the the Mallorean whatsits.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:11, archived)
# From what I recall
having read them a Long Time Ago at an Impressionable Age they were pompous and self-righteous to a terrifying degree and populated entirely by thinly-disguised stereotypes.

You, of course, are entitled to your own opinion. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:14, archived)
# They are,
but I enjoy all that.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:15, archived)
# now u mention it,
he did have a go at the brown folk, didn't he? don't remember one asian character that wasn't dodgy. hmmm....subliminal racism...
(I helped save b3ta! Godzuki needs more sleep., Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:20, archived)
# I thought they
were shite too!
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:21, archived)
# Hah!
Buffoons.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:29, archived)
# and only the first Majipoor book is good
the rest were shite!

(do you think I could be a professional literary critic?)
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:35, archived)
# I think so,
you have a certain verve when it comes to expressing your open onions.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:38, archived)
# He's my brothers
favourite. I never got into it myself. Numtack the wizard strikes down the evil lord of polpet etc etc etc
(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:15, archived)
# i like eddings,
but the belgarimalloreiad ended up as a 10 part epic. took so bloody long i forgot what happened at the start...
(I helped save b3ta! Godzuki needs more sleep., Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:16, archived)
# like the brentford trilogy too!
and that was the hitch hikers
are there any others?
(I helped save b3ta! jiva nearly always up for a game of scrabble, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:11, archived)
# Um,
the Majipoor books by Robert Silverberg asre quite good.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:13, archived)
# If you like doorstopper books
the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton is a great rip-roaring page-turning hi-technology space-operatic gory swashbuckling lusty enjoyable read. If you like that sort of thing. And two of the books in the trilogy weigh more thatn my head...AND it's not in Douglas Adams W I D E S P A C I N G, so you get more bang for your buck. It's not as funy, but it quite gripping.

Yes.
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:43, archived)
# woo for
Peter Hamilton!

Fallen Dragon is good too :-)
(I helped save b3ta! curry monster, Tue 3 Dec 2002, 10:47, archived)