Abyss, on 04 February 2019 - 06:06 PM, said:
Gabriele, on 04 February 2019 - 05:11 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 04 February 2019 - 04:39 PM, said:
Alternative Goose, on 04 February 2019 - 03:47 PM, said:
Yep. It's reason #1 why I've not read it. It seems like the type of book you need to be a youth to enjoy.
I didn't even enjoy it back then. I met that sort of characters at school every day, that was bad enough. Went back to the much more interesting array of characters like Thomas Buddenbrook, Nikolaj Stavrogin, Daniel Deronda, Lucien de Rubempré, Ivanhoe, Aragorn and Athos.
I preferred Jack Ryan and Silk.
Silk, that was the merchant with a side business of spying and assassination and a dislike for porridge, right? Can't blame him about the porridge, I hate that stuff, too. Eddings' books came out past my teenage time, but I enjoyed them as light hearted snacks in between the heavier stuff. Feist's Magician was quite fun, too. Fortunately, Fantasy now offers some main courses with Erikson, Martin and their ilk - those are keepers as much as Thomas Mann, Tolkien or Dostojevsky.