The Seeress of Kell (The Malloreon, Book 5) by David Eddings
By mrs. kirk - Thursday, September 21st, 2006
I read and enjoyed the Belgariad – in fact; it really shook me up, emotionally. I even cried. But this tripe – this Mallorean – five books of vacuous-ness of utterly wasted words on paper that poor trees were cut down to deliver! The horror, the horror! To say it was bad is an insult to things that are truly bad. This was beyond awful. I have created more plausible storylines on cocktail napkins. I have read more entertaining and witty prose on the bathroom wall at the port authority.
This series should have never happened – it was as if – the big monumental saving of the world in the first series didn’t “count,” like – oh, that – we weren’t serious – NOW you really get to save the world.
With a cast of thousands across a landscape with an ever growing map and mass of continents and cities with similar names (the better to confuse you to keep you from noticing the lack of plot, character development or anything really but beleaguered blather and expositional dialogue for 2000 freaking pages) the highest compliment I can give this series is – that the books seemed to bounce nicely off of my bedroom wall after I had hurled them at it.
Big Dave has issues with women too – I find it frightening that his wife had anything at all to do with these books. She must be freaking Donna Reed or something because the fifties ideals here are so outdated I was aching to read Camille Paglia. All of the women are sniveling idiots, crying, giving birth, cooking and cleaning – and not a whole hell of a lot of anything else. An all powerful Sorceress can only be fulfilled by giving birth? Oh yeah – right! What is this – the Hill Country or something? How backwoods can you be?
Stay away – read something else – anything else – the back of a box of crackers – the label on a can of cheese whiz – trust me. You will be better off.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
a good geeky scifi book is nClone by Dovin Melhee