Belgarath the Sorcerer

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The sheer scale of his millennia long tale is breathtaking with unbelievably sad moments interspersed within the adventure and general mucking about. This is I suspect one reason David and Leigh were plainly planning another prequel with Polgara as protagonist, particularly since Polgara tends to take the more emotional line, indeed frequently Eddings sets up conflicts which Belgarath skates across (such as Beldaran’s death), which I suspect will be a far more major deal when seen from Polgara’s side in the next book.

I loved this series and perhaps it's been too long since I've read it, but I more think it's a matter of "you finished the series" let it go. More so than Polgara, he wasn't afraid of using his power to get someone to do what he wanted, being adept at illusion and the manipulation of the elements. From what I have read on other reviews each of David Eddings books follows the same story but from different peoples perspective. Belgarath the Sorcerer is a companion book to Polgara the Sorceress which form the memoirs of Belgarath's elder daughter, Polgara.On February 28, 2007, David Eddings' wife, Leigh Eddings (born Judith Leigh Schall), died following a series of strokes. 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. However, Belgarath was the far more experienced of the two, and so Garion was often happy to let his grandfather do it. He came across a young she-wolf in his travels, while traveling in the form of a wolf himself, and she followed him to his errand and back to his tower. Characters are both vivid and memorable, and readers will enjoy seeing how all those insider jokes from the Belgariad started.

The cyclical, tightly predetermined nature of this universe was beginning to annoy me in The Mallorean, but told here from the first-person perspective, it gets even more frustrating. The book’s last part was unfortunately rather laboured, mostly due to Eddings desire to have Belgarath involved with all of the cast of the Belgariad before we met them, often in rather pointless ways which just seemed to exist for name dropping reasons. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.After having read every single book in the Belgariad-universe, I finally also finished Belgarath the Sorcerer. In short, Belgarath the Sorcerer provides a solid background on not just Belgarath's past, but some of the other characters' as well (most notably, of course, his fellow disciples of Aldur, including Polgara). Although getting a closer look at certain events was interesting, it is a very long story that tended to get dreary every now and then.