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Alright, I've always been interested in reading, but never was more than a... spectator I guess. like, "wow, that book looks/sounds cool" But since coming to the big city, I've been able to get my hands on more and more literature, starting with The Books of Blood Vol. 1 by Clive Barker, a collection of short stories. I wasn't too big on that book, guess I'm not too much of a short story person? A couple of years later, I got the book reading bug again, and picked up Zodiac by Robert Graysmith, naturally I loved this book, cause like Graysmith I became infatuated with this mass murderer, just out of morbid curiosity. That book led me to, of all books, Eldest, and that naturally led me to Eragon. (or was it the other way around?) Either way around, I only got halfway through the second novel, when I burned out on it. The story had slowed drastically, and I didn't want to end up reading it all just to have to wait a whole year for what I thought was going to be the final installment.
During the wait for Brisingr, I got bit by yet another book bug, and ran across Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's House (which is soon to be a motion picture, if it isn't already) With my life long struggle with finding/choosing/accepting/understanding religion, coming across a couple of Christian authors was pretty refreshing. I mean, I was expecting this blood and gore horror novel, but got a nice epic story of human acceptance of what and who you really are, set against the backdrop of good vs. evil, that in the end has this since of redemption to it. This one book set me to the task of buying every single Ted Dekker Novel I can find, so far I've racked up, and read the circle trilogy (soon to be a quad-ilogy), Saint, Showdown, and they haven't disappointed, also in queue to read is Three, Blink, and Blessed Child and A Man Called Blessed, still trying for Obsessed, Blink of an eye, Adam, and most recently Sinner.
Back in middle school, I read most of Eye of the World, the first in Robert Jordan's (r.i.p) 12 part epic, and half of David Edding's Belgarath the Sorcerer, so I had to try to pick up those two series, for nostalgia purposes if nothing else. Right now I'm on book four of Edding's also 12 part series The Belgariad/Malloreon, and as of yet only have the prequel to the Wheel of Time series, but I should have plenty of reading before I get to Jordan. Not sure why I wanted to let everyone know about my new found love of reading, I guess it's cause it feels like a missing part of my life is now there, dunno. Things like this are hard to for me to explain.
During the wait for Brisingr, I got bit by yet another book bug, and ran across Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's House (which is soon to be a motion picture, if it isn't already) With my life long struggle with finding/choosing/accepting/understanding religion, coming across a couple of Christian authors was pretty refreshing. I mean, I was expecting this blood and gore horror novel, but got a nice epic story of human acceptance of what and who you really are, set against the backdrop of good vs. evil, that in the end has this since of redemption to it. This one book set me to the task of buying every single Ted Dekker Novel I can find, so far I've racked up, and read the circle trilogy (soon to be a quad-ilogy), Saint, Showdown, and they haven't disappointed, also in queue to read is Three, Blink, and Blessed Child and A Man Called Blessed, still trying for Obsessed, Blink of an eye, Adam, and most recently Sinner.
Back in middle school, I read most of Eye of the World, the first in Robert Jordan's (r.i.p) 12 part epic, and half of David Edding's Belgarath the Sorcerer, so I had to try to pick up those two series, for nostalgia purposes if nothing else. Right now I'm on book four of Edding's also 12 part series The Belgariad/Malloreon, and as of yet only have the prequel to the Wheel of Time series, but I should have plenty of reading before I get to Jordan. Not sure why I wanted to let everyone know about my new found love of reading, I guess it's cause it feels like a missing part of my life is now there, dunno. Things like this are hard to for me to explain.