The Belgariad

Christmas 2006 I was visiting my aunt in Texas and I had a Buffy novel with me and my uncle thought it was a little juvenile and maybe I should be reading something that an adult would read.  He didn't say that but that is the impression that I got from it.

He had (has) on his bookshelf these books by David Eddings, there are probably 17 books and he handed me like 5 and I was like I can't read all these lol.  So, I said how about this, I'll read some of the first book tonight and we'll see how it goes lol.  So that night when everyone went to bed I went in the room I was sleeping in and started reading the preface.  That's as far as I got.

I didn't take his books home with me because I didn't want to have to ship them back when I was done so I just wrote down a list of all the books.  I probably only needed to write down the first book or maybe emailed myself the title because the book has all of the books in the whole series in the very beginning of the book.  But that's OK, I was making a gesture to my aunt and uncle that I would in fact buy the books and read them.

When I came home I did buy The Belgariad Vol. 1 with the first 3 books Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery and Magician's Gambit and The Belgariad Vol. 2 with Castle of Wizardry and Enchanters' End Game.  They are 2 huge books and when I got them in the mail from Amazon.com I started reading Vol. 1 right away with the Preface and I think I read all of Chapter 1 of Pawn of Prophecy but the problem I had was that I kept falling asleep.

Usually when you read something and you start falling asleep it's not a good thing.  Like take my blog for example.  Er um eh hem I mean yeah let's not go there lol.

When I read the Hobbit I kept falling asleep.  Not that it was boring or anything but it was a very confusing book with all those dwarf names and there were too many words that I'm not familiar with and I really hate having to stop reading to go look up a word lol.  But I got through the Hobbit all the way to the end and I'm better for it.

I would like to give The Belgariad a 2nd chance though because I'm going to start reading it again tomorrow.  I can't read in my rooms light and definitely not the living room light, it hurts my eyes too much.  I'm going to just see if it works out for me while I wait for the 2nd Xanth book to arrive.