Living and Suffering. . .
by Toby - January 23rd, 2010.Filed under: Life. Tagged as: books, eragon, exerpt.
At the recommendation of Ella and Scott, I recently read Eragon. I can recommend it further. One of the things I like about it is the age of the author. I don’t mean that in the ‘my, isn’t he precocious’ kind of way that you might think.
I mean that Christopher Paolini writes about things that I used to believe and . . . well, I didn’t outgrow them, I think I just forgot about the things I used to care about. Here’s an example (from page 197 of the Knopf paperback):
“. . . so the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice, are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him.”
The question hung in the air.
Brom finally said, “It’s a difficult question and not on you can answer until you#re faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; its actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
The italics, of course, are mine. (I just like saying that, because it sounds so academic.) I don’t know that this will become a blog of book excerpts that I like. . . but, since it’s not really a blog of anything (also my italics), I don’t see that I can’t include the occasional excerpt.
January 31st, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I just got this book and the second one for Christmas . . . I haven’t started reading yet, but I’m encouraged to know that you liked it.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:45 PM
What kind of weirdo gets a book but doesn’t read it? Get to it! It’s really pretty good. (I don’t know if you realized I did a little writing about dragons–until Bishop dropped the ball, of course–but it’s a good ‘dragon world,’ if that makes any sense.)
Also, when do I get my email?
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Toby, have you read any of the other books? Eldest? Brisinger? They are just as good as the first and build the story wonderfully. In your words “Get to it!”