The Elder Gods

[Talysia]

That same thought occurred to me - what was the point of writing the series if the ending was going to basically render it useless? Looking back on it, I can't help but think that this is the weakest of all of Eddings' series.

 

[Wybren]

When I read that ending I felt that I was ripped off, buying the books and then spending the time reading them and then end it as though the all what had been written was basically erased. What was the point of writing it to have it end that way?

 

[Talysia]

It might have worked better as one novel, I think, focusing on maybe one of the gods' domains. I think I'd might have preferred that.

 

[Wybren]

Perhaps it would have worked better like that. I think that there was so much room for other things, like what about the other lands, those story lines could have been explored better. There was so much lacking from the dreamer series. oh well.

 

[Harleyquin]

Bobby Ewing 1986 year of the "Dream" in dalls was a much better plot gov...

without giving the ending away to anybody still doggedlt determined to read it all I'll say is that the preceeding 3 books become redundant and useless - more than that it just makes you feel totaly let down wondering why you even bothered.

A nice example of this would be http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/Divx%20links/LOTR.html as an example of how pointless the book could have been if Tolkien had used the same device.

 

[mwb]

Agreed with many who have expressed dissatisfaction with the ending.

About the only redeeming thing for me was that I really like his gods and how he handles and portrays them. Even if they are vaguely familiar to characters, gods and otherwise, in other of his books.

I'm certainly not as fond of his human characters as a whole in this series.

And the ending, I ranted about for days with some friends.