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Oh. I guess there's no accounting for tastes. Legolas Send a noteboard - 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM
Druon should have been dragged out into the street and beaten to a pulp, with his teeth kicked in, for writing it. He should have stopped at Book 6. Book 7 is a travesty of prose, a miserable retelling of history (with its errors) and almost impossible to read due to the stupid statements to make it sound like part of a conversation. I would encourage everyone who owns it in a separate volume to take the book out, burn it, piss on the ashes and then find another copy to burn.

I don't disagree that he should have stopped at book six, but that's just because book seven is so tangentially connected to the rest of the series (and was written nearly two decades later, if memory serves) - it should have been a separate book.

Other than that, I rather liked it, as I said. The frame story could have been stronger, true, but I certainly found it a smooth enough read regardless. Oh well.
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