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Title: poorly written and ultimately uninteresting
Review: A friend recommended the Belgariad and gave me all five books to check out. He warned me that the writing wasn't great, but that the structure of the particular fantasy world that Eddings created was novel and interesting. Perhaps it is, but I found the writing pretty dull and ended up skimming it pretty quickly after getting about one-third of the way through the book. So, I can't really say much on the coolness of the way the gods work in the Belgariad. I just finished Pawn of Prophecy, and wasn't motivated to spend my time on the rest. I checked out the summaries on Wikipedia to see what happened -- and am glad I didn't waste my time!I can easily see the Belgariad being enjoyable for younger readers, as the Xanth series was for me when I was twelve.
