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Author:	David Eddings
Title:	Pawn Of Prophecy
Publisher:	Corgi
Country:	UK
Date:	1983
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	055212284X
Total Editions:	2
Rating:	4.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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ppint. ● 9th Dec 2017		Rated 4/10 immensely successful, commercially, but somewhat dissatisfying sub-tolkienian pentalogy; the story takes a pretty boring and unobservant farm-boy through perilous adventures towards a climactic battle, picking up more or less-unlikely companions as he goes. some of these companions are people he's previously known as pretty ordinary, commonplace adults, unaware of (i.e. never noticing) their extraordinary powers (did i mention his uninquisitive, unobservant nature?); one is an extremely annoying "princess" of a teenager (who actually is a princess), that's somehow managed to avoid being murdered for her whiny, totally self-absorbed selfishness, and another is "silk", a double-dealing, treacherous-but-lovable rogue. . . that they eventually reach a successful conclusion to their adventures is, of course, inevitable - despite the existence of competing prophecies, or possibly competing interpretations of the same prophecy; and that the princess will prove to be a peach is predictable, if her survival unmurdered by any one of her companions - or the people they meet - was less so; but garion the stableboy - ok, farm boy - is so unimaginably boringly uninterested in the world, his companions, an enchanted sword... - not even his discovery that he's been raised by, and guarded by, two of the most powerful beings in creation suffices to raise a spark of suspicion that there might just possibly be something special about himself. . . and it's such a waste. the five books are at least competently well written, and there was a brilliant story just waiting to be told: lester del rey° shouldn't have accepted and published this first novel at all; he should've paid the minimum acceptable advance for the rights, and sent it back to the author saying "you're telling the wrong story; it isn't garion's story of unimaginative and unimagined inevitable success against all the odds at all - it's the amoral, inventive, larcenous and entirely self-interested rogue silk's story about how, despite his best intentions, he got lured into taking dangerous, all-but suicidal risks - to achieve something good, okay, but a venture that held no possible profit for him whatsoever - and he still can't work out how they conned him into doing anything so foolhardy..." ° - eddings' editor 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. ● 9th Dec 2017		reprinted with this isbn, cover art and cover price four times in 1984 (and possibly once in 1985) before the first price rise to £1.95; consult the indica to see which £1.75 printing you hold.



ppint. ● 9th Dec 2017		cover art by geoff taylor.

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David Eddings - Stenens Väktare - Wahlströms - Hardcover - Sweden - 9132314884 (1995)