Well, Hello! Been a little while since I've posted huh? I've been wanting to make a new post for a while, but I decided it would be good for me not to get on the computer for a week (besides to use it for school). Well, I think that was a good thing to do, but it did keep me from blogging...
Anyhow, I have a couple things just to type down. First is that I am getting my nose poked into Eragon. A friend of mine, in bloggy town she goes by the name of Dbug, (Doodlebug97.Blogspot.com) who is crazy about the series of books Eragon belongs to. So of course, she lent me the book (more like forced me to take it, stating the "my life was not complete until I read it"). So of course, I took it home with me (by the way, you may have never seen a book so 'used' before). Okay, so this happened Sunday night, and if you don't already know, it is Tuesday evening right now. Now this is a 60(?) chapter book, (I'm counting the prologue as a chapter) with the chapters averaging 5 pages. That makes it 497 pages long, and I'm on Chapter 46(?) which is page 333. I dunno, ...do you think that's impressive? I s'pose it is (by the way I have learned the I love saying and typing the word s'pose).
So what do I think of this book...? I'm trying to figure it out. My friends and my brother know that I can be extremely critical with movies, (you can see that on my other blog Dragons Fly) and it's really hard for me to find a book that I really really like for longer than a month. Of course, my never-will-be-less-favorite-and-always-close-to-my-hart-books are The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of The Rings. Actually, fairly recently I've found two others that I do like very much: Little Men and My Side of The Mountain.
So to figure out how much I like this book, I'll compare it a bit.
These are 5 thoughts on it:
1) This book seems interesting
2) This book is kinda violent
3) This book is a mix between The Lord of The Rings and Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
4) This book is written by a okay author, but no where close to CS Lewis or Tolkien
5) This book really does mention a lot of people bleeding and dying
The book is set in a world not too much unlike Tolkien's, in fact, (I'm sure the author didn't intend this) some of the names can be found in both books. This isn't really a good sign. Books need to be original, so maybe the lesson here is to be careful if you are writing where other authors have already touched down.
The setting is a teenage boy, who's only family is an uncle and cousin, finding a dragon egg, then, when the egg hatches out comes the dragon, and he learns he can use telepathy on it to communicate. Well, the creepy, evil, weird bad guys try to find him because they don't want him to become too dangerous. His uncle gets killed and dies and all that, then he runs away with some old guy who knows a TON about the old secrets about the elfs, dwarfs, and dragons, and all that other stuff. The kid gets trained by the old guy, and his world is completely turned upside down. Basically, in the beginning it's a story of revenge, then it gets turned around to a story of being hunted. Quite a lot has happened in this book since I started reading it almost two days ago. And you start to learn that you can't be sure of who is going to die in it.
Now, I need to organize my critical thoughts on the good and bad about this story.
For me, It's just a little... weird. I know this sounds hypocritical, because of course, 'Narnia, and 'Lord of The Rings is kinda strange too. But somehow for me they are different. The Lord of The Rings books are a bit weird at parts, but not too bad. And The Chronicles of Narnia are really great (and when I say great, I mean awesome).
But Eragon just seems a little weird at some points...
On another hand, this book (so far, remember, I haven't finished it or anything) is really kinda cool. I mean, what's more neat than a kid who can talk to his dragon in his head, and is a awesome sword-fighter?
So all-in-all, this is an okay book, that I may\might read again but I'll have to read further into the series... Another thing is that the series isn't even finished, and of course, I'm only on the first book! I'll have to check back with you later on all of that.
Next off, I'll type a bit about Mr. Pitter-patter-paws as is one of his new nicknames. Of course, you know that I'm talking about Arlo right?
My crazy dog is doing great! in fact, after I'm done here, I should probably feed him... Anyhow, I don't know why I keep lamenting on this but we got him a new collar. I know, big deal huh? but it's an actual store-bought collar! Lately, we have been making him home-made rope collars (which are really cool, but don't look as sharp). I'll have to get a picture of him on here with it on before he makes it nasty and grimy like I know he will...
Last Saturday was really fun, we spent the whole morning on cleaning our yard (it's all nice 'n tidy now!), then I jumped into the pool for the first time this year (let me assure you, it was cold). Then, when it started to get dark out we made a fire (in the fire pit) and burned up a bunch of the dead leaves and thorny twigs we've had sitting in the corner of our yard for a very long time. And, of course, you can have a bon-fire without roasting marshmellows and makeing s'mors. I did attempt to re-heat the left-over hotdogs from our refrigerator over the fire, but that only left one side cold and one side hot... (I have little open-fire roasting experiance, save for roasting marshmellows).
Oh! by the way, Dbug's (one of my friends) mom has a very neat blog that I am trying to catch up on that you can see at Cricklsnest.blogspot.com so check it out!
Bye for now!
-A.lover
