Belgarath the Sorcerer

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Belgarath the Sorcerer

Belgarath the Sorcerer

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As anyone will gather who has read any of the Eddings’ books before, Belgarath is also built on certain strong background assumptions about gender and about war. He doesn't seem to care all that much for consistency, and alters things in later books with no apparent regard for the earlier ones. Only Belgarath can tell of those near forgotten times when Gods still walked the land: he is the Ancient One, the Old Wolf, his God Aldur’s first and most favoured disciple.

Belgarath is fundamentally interesting, deeply flawed and certainly a petty thief and vagabond he is also principled, viscous and loveable. Belgarath the Sorcerer is a companion book to Polgara the Sorceress which form the memoirs of Belgarath's elder daughter, Polgara. The book opens literally the same night that Seeress of Kell finishes with Polgara having just given birth to twins and Belgarath and Garion (later joined by Durnik and an ale barrel), sitting in Polgara’s kitchen musing about life and how things have come to where they are.However, Belgarath was the far more experienced of the two, and so Garion was often happy to let his grandfather do it. My daughter and i still treasure these series,and every couple of years,we take them out,dust them off,and read them again. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Belgarath admits that he tends to take a fairly long view of history and is thus able to take the loss of others (with the exception of his wife), in stride, thus making him naturally a rather static character. I adored the Garion books, and I was quite fond of this one, but its charm has worn off - even more than the original series. It's told from the first-person perspective of the mighty Belgarath, which is a tricky enterprise in and of itself. Instead, he must keep to a plodding narrative account of his very, very long life (seven thousand years and counting!On the plus side, the interaction between Belgarath and his various brother sorcerers is extremely fun to read, especially the spiky, good hearted dwarf Beldin, and while we don’t learn any shocking insights about Belgarath or the other sorcerers, it does lead to some extremely amusing moments, such as a no holds barred brawl between Belgarath and Beldin following Belgarath’s years of grief after the death of his wife, probably the closest thing to a major conflict Belgarath has in the book. So not their best but still considerably better than most of the stuff their contemporaries managed.

It's not edge-of-your seat reading, because you already know where this story will end (it's a prequel as well as being THAT story. Again, for the most part I could take this sort of thing in the adventurous spirit in which it was meant though even for vile, human sacrificing Grolim priests burning alive or total slaughter of a defeated army felt as if it were going a bit too far. I have so many memories of the time I spent reading David and Leigh Eddings’ books as a teenager that I was almost afraid to go back to them as an adult.I will say some reviews I have seen criticise the amount of political and economic commentary in the book, though as I am generally a fan of books detailing the background of my fantasy worlds I didn’t myself have an issue with this, particularly given the light-hearted tone in which such sweeping international changes are explained. Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series.



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