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    The Elder Gods

    By David Eddings and Leigh Eddings

    2.5/5

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    A new world and a glorious story destined to reach the biggest audience yet.

    They are called the Dreamers. They look like sleeping children. They are, in fact, Gods.

    There are eight elder Gods, four awake, four asleep, by turns. When they sleep, they sleep for eons. The only time the Gods are vulnerable is when the sleepers awake.

    Knowing this, the Ruler of the Wasteland, ambitious to become a God by destroying Gods, watches and waits, marshalling troops for war. So it is that the coming of the Dreamers passes unnoticed in the Wasteland. But the world is soon out of kilter, it is being dreamed, and the awakening of Gods is no simple transition.

    The sleeping Gods are stirring. When they wake the battle will begin.

    There will be trickery and deception. Tribes of humans, creatures of the deep, the sea itself and the earth, the weather and the divinities, all will play their part in the epic struggle against the Ruler of the Wasteland.

    In their own exquisitely effortless style, David and Leigh Eddings weave a web around the reader of magic, mystery and humour.

    The Elder Gods is the first in a series of four books from the bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings. It is a magical, action-packed, totally engaging and characterful novel on the grandest scale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateMar 25, 2010
    ISBN9780007368044
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    The Elder Gods
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    David Eddings

    David Eddings was born in Washington State in 1931 and grew up near Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and went on to serve in the US Army. Subsequently he worked as a buyer for the Boeing company and taught college-level English. His first novel was a contemporary adventure, but he soon began a spectacular career as a fantasy writer with his bestselling series ‘The Belgariad’.

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    • 4/5
      Good but not great. The dialogue, humor, and even characters can often be a straight copy paste job of Eddings earlier works. And like the Mallorean series, the stakes here do not seem to be particularly high.

      But it is still an enjoyable read. I’m looking forward to read the next book.
    • 1/5
      Quatre Dieux président aux destinées du pays de Dhrall. Ils sont en lutte avec une incarnation (?) du mal appelé le Vlagh, et doivent bientôt laisser la place à quatre Dieux plus jeunes. Dans cet épisode la Déesse de l'Ouest, Zelana avec l'aide de sa future remplaçante invoquée par son frère le Dieu Dahlaine, prépare la défense de sa prtie du pays de Dhrall en allant recruter des mercenaires dans une autre partie du monde (ces mercenaires ressemblent comme deux gouttes d'eau aux vikings)Pour ceux qui ont apprécié les cycles de la Belgariade et de la Mallorée, ils ne trouveront rien ici de nouveau. D et L. Eddings appliquent les mêmes recettes d'une façon assez laborieuse et moins d'imagination. Le décalage entre l'histoire et le discours est ici peu convaincant.
    • 1/5
      Badly written rubbish. The banter between characters was so forced as to be unreadable. Even worse plot.
    • 1/5
      This review is for the entire series, because all four books suffer from the same flaws. Ye gods, this was a pile of rubbish. The Eddingses must have been writing on autopilot, because all the elements from previous series were here, but none of the enjoyment. The one-trick "races", the "precocious" child-goddess, the "warfare" between the "races" whose individual representatives all get along famously, the "clever" plans after a "setback" that always work, the "witty" sardonic sense of captain-obvious-humour that a few characters default to, ... it goes on. The previous series by this duo had all of these -- but in moderation! They worked because there were different characters, plans and plot devices strewn in between the Eddingses' favourite tropes. Here, the clichés are all that's left, and the text is just filler, inserted to move the readers soullessly from one eddingsian trope to the next. It's as if no prior thought or planning went into this series, and these books are really a first draft with minimal editing. The trick of following one (set of) character(s) for a couple of chapters before turning to another set is another reason why these books are so godawfully boring! It could have worked as a way of creating tension (it did for Robert Jordan), but the technique is not put to any use -- say, switching between fast-moving and slow-moving storylines, or heightening the tension by cutting between several climaxes. None of it works because the groups reunite every so often, and then the Eddingses treat us to painful sequences where the characters retell everything that happened to them to the others, and it goes on for a couple of pages. And what's worse, they do so in the most annoying way possible: faux-humble and pretend-cool, with only one sense of humour and one voice to go around a fairly large cast. Entire sequences of these books are dull repetition of events that happened two or three chapters ago, where characters stand around congratulating each other on how clever and brave and witty they are. So whenever a character is off having adventures on their own, you can be certain to be reading the Cliff's notes version in a couple of chapters' time. Ugh. At this point most other reviewers here have warned you not to buy these books and to spend your time and money on something else. I can only agree with that sentiment, because I couldn't recommend this lazy excuse for a book to anyone.

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    • 3/5
      This book has great promise and could have gone far but for some reason it just does not deliver. There's no great climax or build up and its the same for its acompanying books.

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    • 5/5
      This book promised a good, medium-paced read and delivered it was a literal 'bang' at the end. The direct involvement of Gods worried me for a while before the laws or what they could and couldn't do was set. Full of good characters as I've come to expect from Eddings books, and an added bonus of being set against creepy bad guys who have the upper hand.
    • 3/5
      This series starts out with a bit of promise, being a slightly different version of Edding's usual theme. The good gods select champions, and oppose the plans of the evil gods, who mostly have hordes of brainless followers and a few champions. As usual, good triumphs over evil, mostl because good is exceptionally clever and devoted, and evil is pretty stupid. An entertaining book, but pretty shallow.
    • 1/5
      No one in my family liked this series & we were all thrilled with his Belgariad series. There are 4 of us with varying tastes in fantasy & not one of us wanted to get the second book. We just couldn't like or identify with the main character or his issues. Blech.
    • 2/5
      I used to think David Eddings had some talent as a fantasy author. I haven't read anything of his in several years so I bought the Dreamer series expecting a good read. I was extremely disappointed. The writing is very weak. The characters are shallow and one dimensional. I cannot believe the dialogue is so silly and repetitive. The characters seem to say the same thing every 5 or six pages. The plot line is predictable and there is no suspense or intrigue to be found. I thought after the first book that it might get better, but it continued to plod along. I do not recommend any of the books in the series. Save your money and find a good fantasy book/series. This is not it. It has turned me off to ever wanting to read Eddings work again.
    • 4/5
      This review is for the whole dreamers series. I can't say this is Edding's best work. it's a good story; there's and evil creature that wants to take over the world with its minions and a group of gods, goddesses, children and other various characters who fight it off in a series of wars. But the reader quickly gets annoyed by the sardonic sense of humor that EVERYONE in the books seems to have. in his earlier books there was one or two characters that could make funny jokes by pointing out the obvious and making cryptic little remarks but in this series it seems everyone is that character and it gets a little tiring. and confusing there are so many characters in this series and they are all so much alike one loses track because it doesn't really matter who is talking as they all talk alike
    • 3/5
      The Elder Gods is the first book in the Dreamers series, which takes place in the land of Dhrall, where gods live on the Earth along with men and an evil, insect-like creature called the Vlagh. For this first installment, the people of Dhrall have become threatened by the Vlagh and its minions, and so the gods of the land have created the four Dreamers to help in the fight. Much of this book involves familiarizing the reader with the world and its history, as well as introducing the important characters. While I don't read a great deal of epic fantasy, I have read it in the past, and this particular series is just not for me. The world that the Eddings' have built and its intricate history had the potential to be interesting for me, but in the end the writing itself felt kind of cliched and wooden, and few, if any, of the characters were compelling. All this could have been salvaged for me with some intense action, but that was largely absent as well. I probably will avoid reading further volumes in this series, but fans of the Eddings' could very well find lots of enjoyment here. Unfortunately, it left me, personally, cold.
    • 1/5
      Do not waste your time. Almost painful to read.
    • 2/5
      Utter crap....especially when compared to Eddings Belgariad and Mallorean series.