Glad to hear the everyone else likes them too. Sentinel04, thanks for the recomendation to Robert Jordan. I have heard very good things about his books. I think they will be next on the line up. As far as borrowing creatively is concerned, I have never read any of Jordans books, so I can't tell, but two things I noticed and I can't tell if it is a nod of the hat to other authors or not, but there are a people called "Sandarians" which sound like the sendarians from the David Eddings books in the Belgariad. There is also a "Nameless One" as the enemy and there is a nameless one as the main enemy in Raymond Feists books who my namesake fought vigilantly to keep down.
Regardless, they are excellent reading and I fear my life will remain on hold until I can finish them all.
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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George Patton (1885-1945)
