April Book Photo Challenge Day 2: Newest Purchase

Day 2: Newest Purchase

This is one of those things I have said that I would do for years and never really did. 

When I got my kindle all those years ago I said "It won't stop me from buying books!" which it most defiantly has not and "If I read a book on kindle that I really love, I willl buy it as a physical book as well."

Up until this point, this has never happened. I have read a truck load of fabulous books on my kindle and not added them to my physical book collection. Most of them are classics that I have got from Project Gutenberg and still no classics sit on my selves. 

Then came A Song of Ice and Fire. I am not ashamed to admit it, I am a band wagon jumper and hadn't hear of A Game of Thrones until I saw the first episode on Foxtel but from that first watching I was hooked. I read the all just after the most recent one come out but now with three days to go till the next season, I having withdrawal and I'm going to re-read the series and commit to my promise that I would buy books that I really like if I read them on Kindle.      

Literary Photo Challenge Day 12: I Wish I Had Read This Sooner

I couldn't pick a particular book for this one so I choose a genre.... sort of.

I wish i had have started reading classic literature sooner than I had. Unlike a lot of people who read a lot of the classics in high school, we read things that they thought we would like such as tomorrow when the war began and Lockie Lenard: Human Torpedo, both of which I hated. Not to mention the fact that some years we didn't even read a text as part of our schooling, this is what you get for going to school in the country.

When  I got my Kindle however, I was in my last year of University and hence i was broke and couldn't really afford to buy any of the new release books.  This was when I discovered The Gutenberg Project and their free downloadable mobi files for kindle.

I read quite a few classics that year and a few since then. I have enjoyed then greatly and had an epiphany as to why classics are classic.... they are so well written and even one, two or even three hundred years after being first published, they read beautifully. I honestly wish i had started reading them sooner.

Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Well it took me six and a half weeks, but I made it.  “Eye of the World is now on my read shelf.

Considering the time frame it took me, I think you can tell I enjoyed the story...because, otherwise, I would not have finished it. The fact that I read the last 40% of the book in the last week and a half means two things.

 

1. Reading on my kindle can sometime be far better than reading out of an old book with my dyslexia and;

2. It took me a long time to get used to Robert Jordan’s style of storytelling and the unique language that he used.

 

To the story itself, it’s a four out of five star job.  (As a side note, I really need to develop a rubric to decide on my star system, if anyone has one or knows of one, please tweet me the link, I would really appreciate it.)

 

Rand Al’thor was a really well developed character.  Jordan constructed his main character well enough that we could anticipate his decisions in the different challenges. I never really doubted that Rand would resist the onslaught of mental torture from Ba'alzamon, although I had my doubts about Mat.

The twist of Perrin being linked to the wolves was also quite intriguing.

However, I thought the development of all three main female characters was two dimensional at best.  Egwene's training with Moiraine didn't seem to continue after their reunion. Also, Nynaeve's developing feelings for LAN just popped out of nowhere. Jealousy does not love make! Really, how weak does he think we on are?

However, I will read the next book in this series even with these criticisms as I enjoyed the overall story arcs and want to see what comes of these characters.