Comments on: David Eddings Is Gone

By: Rosa

Rosa — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:57:06 +0000

Thank you for posting this. He was/is one of my favorite authors. I still give his books out to people for birthdays and such. I am so sad to hear of his passing, but it made me laugh that he switched to fantasy after seeing lotr in it’s 73rd printing.
May his books have the same length of life.

By: Leslee

Leslee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:15:34 +0000

So sad, he was my first fantasy author that I followed in middle school.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:39:06 +0000

Thanks for posting, I hadn’t heard that. I have to agree with Tanny above, it was right around high school that my Dad had gotten a copy of the first book of the Belgariad Series. He finished it and I got hooked on them rght afterwards. It showed me what a truly good fantasy story was supposed to be. There are still a couple of songs from Oingo Boingo, the Cure and Siouxisie and the Banshees (the soundtrack of my teen years) that take me right back to those stories. Very sad.

By: tany

tany — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:54:05 +0000

That’s so sad. He was one of the writer’s that pulled me into reading fantasy so long ago. I remember reading belgariad for the first time in high school…and I re-read those books once a year (every year) since then.