David Eddings R.I.P.

David Eddings died last night. The Belgariad was one of two series that I hauled with me on my Arizona Renaissance Festival odyssey back when I was still in theater. The other being the first couple of Wild Cards books. I'd read the Pawn of Prophecy the week before taking off and I wanted to see how it ended. Spending the next two months living in a tent in the desert without the bulk of my library meant that all of those books got reread a couple of times and imprinted them pretty deeply on my