Any T.A Barron fans?

[alpha_hazard]

OK, so I wanted to discuss some stuff about the Merlin Series and the Upcoming Avalon series...I searched for an hour turning up nothing that really appealed to me, the closest I got was the internet infidels forum...ick.

So Anyway. Anybody who would like to discuss Barron's books, feel free to post.

I'm farely excited to find out exactly what the timeline of the Avalon books is, because I'm curious as to what characters might resurface, Such as Dinatius and Rhia...Although I seem to remember some mention of her on his website.

I Also think that we will definitely see both Nimue and Merlin again, because they are still linked to this world...Obviously.

I also have a feeling that somebody will have retrieved or will be retrieving the Wreath of mistletoe from the top branches...as they seem to also probably have an effect on the story...

I would really like to see Shim return as well. though I;m not too sure he will, at least not in the first book...

I find the prologue to be a little intriguing as well. As always, Barron is able to work double meanings in often...One chacter, named Scree, is a part bird person, hatched from an egg. While the clearly references the sound a bird makes, it also refrences a type of rock debris, And since the boy is born in the mountains, the is a clear connection...

This final rumination seems a little far fetched, but perhpas we will also see the Return of Kate Gordon? If not her, then perhaps someone related to her, a la Madeleine L'Engle? Wouldn't it be funny if someone very important was infact some how related to Kate?

Anyway, those are some of my idle brain wanderings.

[forgottentitan]

hey i read them, personally they were just to happy for me.

baron didn't do a good enough job of developing the mentor chacactor it didn't hurt when he died. and merlin himself really didn't feel bad enough when his metor died.

but loved the merlin effect.

oh yeah he has a problem repeating himself too. (such as spaces between the stars&giant chess set&i remember that one of the items had the same power

[alpha_hazard]

Hmmm...I don't really think I'd say he repeats himself...I think he is making connections...I think he finds that important...as for the item with the same power...that happens because often magic is linked to love...It is also possible that you are thinking of one of the treasures of Fincayra as it relates to certain treasures of Brittain, or treasures of Emry's...

I suppose I might agree with you on the Part of Cairpre...not so much that he wasn't developed enough, but that he was not as present as other character's...However, he also dies doing something important...Therefore I would say Merlin, nor the reader, should feel bad about his death...

I can also see where you get the happy stuff...his books are always much more tightly tied at the end, and rarely is anybody left with doubt...The Merlin Effect is the exception to this...with the Disappearance of Terry and Merlin...although I sometimes wonder if perhaps Terry is, in fact, Garlon. Their Appearances are similar and it seems to me that if Merlin did esacpe he may have escaped to the wrong time period (He was always bad at leaping of course) and maybe knocked out terry's memory...Then told him he was his Brother....that's kind of a stretch...

[mallow20]

I like it!

[delemtri]

All I really remember is that Merlin met himself living backwards or something, and the old one had regrets of some type. Very good books, but not, I don't think, particularly memorable. There were some great parts though - didn't he play a game of some sort with a huge spider or something?

[mallow20]

Yea, Im lookin for people who like the books so if you do contact me on AIM=BsJrec9 thanks

[bookfreak_lilly]

I personally LOVED the Lost Years of Merlin books. Very good.