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David Eddings: I confuse him with Dave Duncan for some reason. '.'

But... but...  o.O;
Dave Duncan is like the exact opposite of David Eddings!  He writes a completely different book every single time!  They're nothing like each other!  And they're all awesome!
--Sam
"I'm here because... a big clown hit me!"

I wrote a big long dismissive thing on Duncan's writings, but let me sum up with this:

The latest series aside, which bought but never got around to reading (I blame me going through my current 'nonfiction and graphic novels' phase) I've enjoyed the crap out of every Eddings book I've ever purchased.

However, with Duncan, more often than not, I find his first book in a series to be awesome, and his later efforts to be much less so. He's a decent writer, but...

Eddings touches a chord in me that makes me enjoy the hell out of reading his work over and over. Duncan, not.