Thalia @ Pictures in the Words
I'm Thalia! I run a book blog called Pictures in the Words and I hope to be an editor for YA fiction. I'm a GoodReads refugee!
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The Martian
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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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The Children of Húrin
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Eragon (Inheritance Cycle Series #1)
Whew! It’s generally not a good sign when it takes me longer than a week to plow through a book, especially when it’s not terribly long. Paolini has a beautiful writing style and has the most detailed descriptions which, as a writer, I appreciate greatly, but as a reader bored me to no end. The story and characters themselves were captivating, inviting, and interesting, and made you want to read, but the overly lengthy descriptions and explosion of unnecessary details seemed to swallow the interest and the pleasure in reading it. Eragon is an excellently written novel in its own right, and my rating is not at all judged on Paolini’s talent as an author–it’s just judged on the “enjoyability” level the reader can gain from this novel as a whole, which was only so-so on my scale.As a result, this may be the shortest review I ever write!Read more?http://thaliasbooks.tumblr.com/post/17689301178/eragon-review
