The real shocker to me was when it turned out that all the books were co-written with his wife Leigh. They decided just to use his name on the cover to "appeal to the audience", which, okay, but it really disturbed me considering all the stuff about how women are so mysterious and all the great sorceress Polgara wants to do is pop out babies and make soap. Soap, of all things! It's so fucking messy and gross (in pre-modern times)!