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Originally Posted by Brys I agree with the psychology point, but for me it doesn't seem enough to write three trilogies on - if the whole series had been condensed into a single trilogy, or even a single novel, I think it could well have been one of the best fantasy novels ever. And if I'd read Donaldson at the same time I was reading Eddings etc, I'd probably have been pretty impressed |
OH that's an excellent point you make about the length of the series. I agree a shorter let's say single trilogy probably would've made a greater longer term impact on the Genre's landscape but having said that as I enjoy his current series and return to The Land I'm not complaining too much in all honesty. When I'm relating the books as a landmark series I'm probably thinking more of the intial impact the first trilogy had on me than anything subsequent to that.
Now I've read very little of Eddings in fact the very thought of those books makes me go all weak at the knees....
In fact 15 -20 years ago I was probably only reading about half a dozen fantasy authors consistently but of course in the intervening 15 plus years especially that's increased to something like 100 plus in total expanding to horror and some SF.