| Re: Eddings' Nations
See the reason I don't like wikipedia is the same reason Universities wont accept it as a source in essays and coursework....its completely user generated...
In any case I think its probably safe to say that Eddings has used real cultures as the basis for his literary cultures, and I would go as far as to say he has probably directly lifeted some cultures from history and changed their names, but what would I expect from something, which in my opinion, is little more than Children's fantasy...
I started out reading Eddings but soon noticed he recycled characters, now a child probably wouldn't notice the similarities between charcters but for me it completely ruined the feel of his books...
Now reading Authors like Feist and Wurts my perception of fantasy has changed and I see them as more "grown up" fantasy. |