Lord Of The Rings- Part One

The Fellowship of the Ring. The epic first installment of the three book Lord Of The Rings. Personally, I think the story is completly and absolutley (and every other word you can think of) genius. Yet, since it took me half a year to read, it moves very slowly. The action in the story is more implied than actually written out, which really bums me because in the movies the action was so great. Speaking of the movies, the books are so different than them in many many ways. The most significant part in the book that they altogether skipped in the movie was the part with good ol' Tom Bombadil. Actually, that was my favorite part of the whole book. Also, Toilken does an amazing job describing...pretty much everything there is to know. If a character sees a leaf, Toilken describes it with unpresidented amout of detail and beautiful words and phrases. Though this slows down the reading process and sometimes makes reading the book boring, it gives the reader a glimpse into the very broad world of detail. This book truly is a masterpeice and everybody should definatly read this novel.

The Ultimate Book

Oh boy. Its ten thirty at night and I am trying to take on a review of Charles Dickens-A Tale Of Two Cities? Sorry folks, that's just going to have to wait until another time. Goodnight!

The Candidates

So, I go to School Of The Arts and I am in a creative writing class there. On Friday, an author named Inara Scott came to visit my class to talk about how to publish your book. She taught me a strong lesson for when I write my book. No matter how much rejection you get, you have to persist. Then, the next day at the Teen Book Festival at Nazareth, I saw Inara again. I found out she works with Writers and Books and I said hi to her. We chatted a little then, guess what. She gave me a copy of her book for free AND signed it for me! Isn't that so amazing! I feel so blessed.

First Book Review!

Lets go with...Eragon, by Christopher Paolini.

First of all, the book starts out very well, with the prologue giving the reader just enough action to jump start the story.  Paolini does a wonderful job describing the village of Carvahall and the character Eragon. We learn a lot about him in the first couple of pages without even one info-dump. Some authors, I find, give too much information in the beginning of the book. Not only does that water down whatever they are writing about, but it's also extremely boring for the readers to...well...read.

Back to the story. Paolini does a fantastic job explaining why Eragon has to leave his village, the whole first part of the book is just wonderfully written. And his details are sublime, as well as the way he gets into Eragon's mind through Saphira.  Throughout the middle and end of the book, and the beginning a little, Paolini does a good job keeping the mood the same. It's a very interesting mood, almost a magical, ancient feel and I love it.

For the whole last part of the story, Paolini does a great job with allowing the reader to feel like they are really standing in the dwarf city. His fight scenes are fast paced and yet slow enough for me to understand what is happening. he doesn't at any time rush through the story or skip important parts. I really love this book (if that isn't totally obvious) and I definitely suggest it to anybody who likes fantasy or dragons and whatnot. 

Unsure

I don't really know how to do this whole book blogging thing. I'm guessing all I have to do is read books then say whether or not I liked them and why. And I'm good at reading at writing so this totally sounds fun!