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A review by stacey42
Polgara the Sorceress by Leigh Eddings, David Eddings
4.0
I enjoyed the story of these books so much. I love the world that it is set in; it is so well developed (even if it is a bit static, no culture stays the same for 7000 years) and I appreciated getting Polgara's adventures that rounded out Belgarath's. I enjoyed all the time spend in Arendia & Sendaria, her run ins with various Salmissra's & Tolnedran emporers and all the time she spent raising generations of Rivan heirs.
I do not enjoy her, and her mother's, rampant misandry. Men are all little boys that never grow up and have to be guided by the wiser and more mature women. I didn't enjoy it 20 years ago either but with the changes in culture we have experience in that time it's even harder sometimes to read. (see, and only 20 years have passed). I can ignore some of it but it's so constant and unrelenting. Its difficult to shrug off now. If a male character spoke about women the way Polgara spoke about men I wouldn't have finished the book 20 years ago. The endless misogyny would have driven me to throw the book in the trash.
Polgara is possibly the bossiest person I have ever encountered in fiction. She is supremely convinced of the rightness of her actions. She and she alone is the 'grown up' in the room and everyone else is under her thumb or else. Her terrorizing the Arendish dukes into doing what she says by basically torturing one of them with stomach ulcers is just an example.
But while I often dislike the main character (and never warm to Poledra), I do love the overall story this book is a part of and as with all my reading, I'm going to reread it for completeness every time.
I'll just be annoyed while I do it.
I do not enjoy her, and her mother's, rampant misandry. Men are all little boys that never grow up and have to be guided by the wiser and more mature women. I didn't enjoy it 20 years ago either but with the changes in culture we have experience in that time it's even harder sometimes to read. (see, and only 20 years have passed). I can ignore some of it but it's so constant and unrelenting. Its difficult to shrug off now. If a male character spoke about women the way Polgara spoke about men I wouldn't have finished the book 20 years ago. The endless misogyny would have driven me to throw the book in the trash.
Polgara is possibly the bossiest person I have ever encountered in fiction. She is supremely convinced of the rightness of her actions. She and she alone is the 'grown up' in the room and everyone else is under her thumb or else. Her terrorizing the Arendish dukes into doing what she says by basically torturing one of them with stomach ulcers is just an example.
But while I often dislike the main character (and never warm to Poledra), I do love the overall story this book is a part of and as with all my reading, I'm going to reread it for completeness every time.
I'll just be annoyed while I do it.