Gaertk at aol.com writes: >The Riftwar was pretty good, though I disliked the ending to >_Magician_, and all the following books made that ending >worse. Plus the paperback version of Magician had that -awful- cliff-hanger between books, where it cut away from the title character and focused on the boring characters for most of the first half, in a really ugly way. The other unfortunate thing is that Riftwar is apparently based on Feist's home campaign, which apparently had heavy EPT/Tekumel inclusions, which Fiest refuses to acknowledge despite their obviousness to anyone who has read the Barker books (which are, in any case, far better than any of the Fiest books except -maybe- the "Mistress of the Empire" (etc) trilogy). -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'