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Tormented Planescaper
@Corwin: I kind of figured that.... I really liked the first 6 books but then a new protagonist was introduced and I had trouble adjusting to that. I love the RPG based on Amber though, are you familiar with it?
Unfortunately I think they'll be a bit too grim for our sensitive daughter at the moment though, she'll have to wait a year or two before she'll be allowed to read them
This is very bad news for me, Dez. I just finished the second one and I'm already really tired of Susannah. My husband is reading the last one, which is huge(~850 pages) and he says it's better, but he's a pretty uncritical guy where Stephen King is concerned..
How old is your daughter? You might want to try reading aloud. That is how we have done it with our boys. Of course, when we started reading they were much younger and couldn't have done it themselves, but we have kept it up. We're reading #7 aloud now (that is, I read and my wife and boys listen) ... despite the fact that my older son read #6 in one day in younger son read #5 in 2 days right before we started this one. It is also amazing family time!
@Alrik. Well, Herbert was accused of creating a fascist undercurrent in his work. I don't know if I agree with that, I for sure didn't pick that up when I first read it. But it could be that the soullessness (is that a word?) stems from that.
30 pages to go and the Eddings book continues to disappoint. What a shame.Finished the Trudi Canavan book, flew thru "Ghoul" by Brian Keene (gave me what I was looking for, but, meh), and started the final installment of the Dreamers series from David Eddings. So far, the series has been a major disappointment to me. Since Eddings is probably my favorite author, my expectations are quite high, but this series so far has been terribly anti-climactic and rather non-heroic. I could forgive that if the characters were really good, but there's too many for Eddings to really develop any of them. Maybe the conclusion will exceed the previous three volumes.
Frankly, I prefer the short-lived TV series. The TV producers took certain liberties that, in my opinion, made Harry's character more even tempered and heroic. They managed this even while weakening the character somewhat power wise. The tradeoff is that the TV Dresden is a much more confident, less timid, less unsure of himself, less apologetic character. Murphy is spot on, you still just want to reach out and choke her sometimes. And, BoB's... libido... was tamed significantly for television.Gig - how are the Dresden books? I really liked the short-lived TV series.
Started Neil Gaiman's "American Gods".