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Title	:	Polgara the Sorceress (Belgariad Prequels)
Author	:	David Eddings
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 754 pages
Published	:	December 26th 1998 by Del Rey Books (first published October 15th 1997)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy

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She soars above a world of warriors, kings, and priests. The daughter of Belgarath and the shape-shifter Poledra, she has fought wars, plotted palace coups, and worked her powerful magic for three thousand years. Now, Polgara looks back at her magnificent life, in this fitting crown jewel to the saga that is the Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean cycles. Her hair streaked white by her father's first touch, her mind guided by a mother she will not see again for centuries, Polgara begins life in her Uncle Beldin's tower, and in the prehistorical, magical Tree that stands in the middle of the Vale. There, she first learns the reaches of her powers. There she assumes the bird shapes that will serve her on her adventures. And there she starts on the path toward her destiny as Duchess of Erat, shepherdess of the cause of good, adversary of Torak the One-Eyed Dragon God, and guardian of the world's last, best hope: the heir to the Rivan throne. Here is the legendary life story of a woman of wit, passion, and complex emotions, a woman born of two majestic parents who could not have been more unlike one another. Ordained to make peace and make war, to gain love and lose love, Polgara lives out her family's rich prophecy in the ceaseless struggle between the Light and the Dark. Polgara is the epic culmination of a magnificent saga, and a fitting farewell to a world which, once experienced, will never be forgotten.

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Original Title:	Polgara the Sorceress
ISBN:	0345422554 (ISBN13: 9780345422552)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Belgariad Prequels, Belgariad Universe #2
Characters:	Polgara, Belgarath, Beldin
Literary Awards:	British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1998)

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I love David Eddings, Polgara is simply annoying. I've tried to accept her and having read her story I think I understand her a little better, but she continues to appear impossibly arrogant. This is still an excellent read even though I have very little sympathy with the so called heroine, because Eddings is just a brilliant story teller.

Disliked. Loved the Belgariad. Loved the Mallorean. Suffered through "Belgarath the Sorcerer" despite it being the extended version of history we already knew. Having to go through it all onceagain in Polgara's tale was nigh on insufferable. As this book went along I began to find traces of the "smug voice" that has ruined Eddings' work past this realm for me.For hardcore Eddings fans only.

It's the story of her life up to Pawn of Prophecy by Polgara and mostly I liked the voice, except for the sexism and racism. You'd think that someone who had lived several lifetimes would have learned that there are a lot of things men and women have in common and that some women are different to others and not all women and not all [insert race here] are the same. Yes it's easy for someone who has lived a long time to become very ingrained in their thinking but she's done so much stuff and with

It's a few years since I read the Belgariad, so I didn't immediately identify with the characters and it did take me a little while to become involved in the story. Overall the characters are engaging although I had a bit of a love-hate relationship with Polgara. The thing that really lets the book down is the over-complication of politics and of places. Even though I have some previous background knowledge of this epic, I just had to give up trying to sort out all the empires, kingdoms,

As a teenager I was pretty fond of David Edding's books, but they don't hold up well after time. Eddings has a way of writing the same story (sometimes with different names) over and over, and this book is no real exception.

Oh, Polgara. Ten books of characterization completely undercut in this explosion of sexist twaddle. Depressingly, I think it's a better book in a lot of ways than Belgarath the Sorcerer - the material is largely new (and entertaining) and, with the exception of the almost word-for-word repeat of the Vo Mimbre section, is paced fairly well. But it's got two big problems that I can't overlook.The sexism. This is the Eddings' chance to expound at appalling length their various opinions about the