Young Writers Society

Well, I'm slowly creeping through them. I'm on Magician's Gambit, so please, no spoilers!

At the moment, they're good. The plot is interesting, and I'm steadily making my way through them, albeit slowly. I do, howver, have a couple of issues.

Racism. Eddings constantly shows a very racist edge. One or two races, particularly the Murgos, are the ones percieved as antagonistic, and are blamed for everything. Apparently, they have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. None at all. There don't seem to be any nice Murgos either. Of course, this may change, but at the moment It's starting to irritate me.

The second thing that's annoying me is Eddings' aversion to the word 'where', expecially as part of 'anywhere', 'somewhere', etc. It's always 'someplace', or 'anyplace'. It's just plain grammatically incorrect, as well as not fitting in with the style of the rest of the dialogue.

Anyways, those are my main two annoyances. What do you like/dislike about the series?

Oooh, read those a long time ago.

I thought they were okay. I read all of them, but the first book was very slow for me - didn't like it. They got progressively better after that, though. I just remember liking Mandorallen a lot.

I loved these books and to be honest, I didn't notice any aspects of racism or the thing about 'where.' I don't think anything particularly annoyed me about the books.