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# 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)