Rediscovering the books after 20+ years

[rdenning]

I cant believe it but it must be almost 25 years since I was introduced to the Belgariad at university. Everyone was reading it and it did not take long for me to pick up the bug. Possibly his later series are better but I still have a fond spot for a series that was part of university days.

Recently I have been listening to an audio book version with my son on car journeys.

 

[Talysia]

It must be at least fifteen years since I discovered the Belgariad. I started with the Elenium/Tamuli series first, a year or so before, but still - I can't believe how long it's been.

I must look out for some copies of both series. I don't have mine any more, but there are times when I'd like to reread them again.

 

[Belmakor]

Yeah, I read these when I was 19 and living in military barracks. They were a good read then and I still enjoy them now. I actually picked them up in the four book set and recently picked up the 'Belgarath' and 'Polgara' books seperately.

Haven't read Polgara yet but will. Just read Belgarath over the Fall. I am admittedly a slow reader so she will have to wait as I need to study for Security +.

 

[X'Nedra]

I'm an Eddings baby! I only read them for the first time about 4 years ago - and have read them about 10 times since then!
I read some fantasy novels when I was a teenager, but never really got into the genre until I read Eddings, now I struggle to read any other genre!

 

[Rosemary]

It was only about 17 years ago when I first came across his books. I've read all of them over the years since then, including 'Polgara' and 'Belgarath.

Most of them I still have and are on my 'to be read again' list

 

[Clansman]

I devoured them when only the first three were out (waaaaay back when I was a teenager, in 1983), and waited what seemed to be an interminably long time (which was nothing compared to the wait for Martin's ADWD) for the fourth and fifth of the series to arrive. I read them several times in the 80's, but I won't do so again now, as my tastes have grown and changed so much that a re-read might destroy my fond memories. Eddings' other stuff never seemed to grow either. I stopped reading in the middle of the first Tamuli book, which I found shockingly bad, and then discovered that it was not Eddings who had changed (he was writing exactly the same way, with almost exactly the same characters), but me. I had grown up.