Independent reading blog 4

I have finished reading This Dark Endeavor and it was indeed a great book, yet poor ending, as previously stated in my last blog. Well, to continue my fun reading time I decided to read the book Eragon, again. I have completed reading this book and once again, it continued to amaze me as to how good this book truly is. Eragon is one of my favorite books because of the adventure in yet and all the challenges and trials Eragon faces throughout the book even though he is only some measly 16 year old farm boy. He gets placed in such a huge role into society which ends up being bigger then he could have ever imagined. I think I enjoy this book so much because it has the adventure I am always longing for. Reading books like this, I begin to just have the words start a movie reel in my head and I don’t want to stop reading, ever. Well Eragon truly is a great book and it inspires me that anyone, even a farm boy, can be placed on a huge adventure and find greatness in life and hey, if a little farm boy can do it, then anyone can right? I also think that this book is very down to earth with the dialogue and way the characters are throughout the book. Many books these days have it where the protagonist is the perfect person and never makes a mistake, and even when he does, the mistake is the best thing he’s ever done. In Eragon, he makes little mistakes and decisions that everyone would do and he messes up, just like everyone else. He grows a lot in the book and matures and it just makes you more able to relate to the book.

I think that this book goes a little bit with Mr.Kain's post on finding adventure, even though this book is not placed in modern society. As said earlier, this little 16 year old farm boy, who has had nothing special to him happen, gets placed on this huge adventure that completely changes his life. No matter what type of person is going about their everyday, you can still finding adventure smacking you in the face.

Independent reading blog 3

As before, I am still reading This Dark Endeavor. It has continued its course and Victor has continued searching for this elixir of life. He soon finds out that the last and final ingredient needed for this elixir of life is bone marrow. In a heroic attempt he decides to sacrifice cutting off his last two fingers on his left hand, so that the bone marrow can be extracted and used for it. After this process of getting his fingers removed they are in a big rush to get back to their house and give the elixir to Konrad. Once back to the house Konrad receives this elixir as he is already starting to snuggle into his death bed, but thankfully the next morning upon waking up, Konrad feels like a new stronger man. Filled with excitement, Victor, Konrad and their friends all are having a great day and the household is the happiest it’s been in quite some time.

With a couple pages left this book is looking to turn out great and is headed in the direction to be one of my favorite books I’ve read in a while, but then it takes a wrong turn. The next morning Konrad is found dead, as he had died in his sleep.

This ending changed my whole entire reaction to the book and it just threw a mean curve ball at me. I don’t know what to think when it says that Konrad had died when the whole entire book had been based on saving his life after many trials throughout the book. Victor had sacrifices cutting off his two fingers so he could save Konrad, but now, he lost two fingers with nothing to show for it. I begin to wonder what the true point of this book was and I can't seem to come up with a conclusion as to what it really was. Thankfully there is a second book coming out later in the year of 2012 and I hope to read that and hopefully it gives me some insight as to why this whole ending to the book happened. I'm still a little baffled as to why the author made this choice to have an ending that turned the whole entire book, into what seemed to be a pointless reading time for me. Maybe he wanted to follow the path of not every book has a good ending but come on, the whole book was to save this kid and he just died. Give me a break.