A sorta long time ago in a library far far away from here on a hot summers day I stumbled thru the juvenile section in Columbiana's tiny little library. Most of the books they have are for very small children, murder mystery, and some limited other works so the selection was rather slim. On a whim I picked up a sturdy blue book called Eragon by Christopher Paolini which was about a boy who lived in a differnet land of magic and had found the last dragons egg and became a dragon rider. I know that doesn't sound mindblowing but after reading it it certainly was fantastic entertainment! Lucky for me the second book had been released that summer and so I read it too. Christopher Paolini was 16 when he wrote them.
Fast forward 3 years and we now have the release of the 3rd book in the trilogy. but wait! what is this? there are to be four books!? Excited and disappointed by my lack of conclusion I enjoyed the 3rd book, even scoring a autographed copy for my proud personal library. I stayed up for two days reading until I had devoured it all. Like all my favorite treasures the pages are stained with spaghetti sauce and melted chocolate and the books fall open to the pages that I read most often. Sadly the 3rd book left us at a terrible cliff hanger, the fate of all our favorite characters will be determined soon, our hero's best help has been killed and his best friend has turned into his worst enemy's pawn.
Oh Christopher Paolini why the torment of the wait for the 4th book? Instead he published a guide to Alagaésia which was a complete waste of my time. I saw it just last week in the bookstore and I stood there muttering curses to Paolini "oh chris, why do you waste my time with this crap? Can't you pen us the conclusion to this epic 6 year quest? It was only suppose to be 3 books anyways. Rowling produced a novel a year for 3 years until she made us wait for two and then surprised us with books 3x's the size of the old. AND then produced them regularly. Let's face it Chris, you are not that awesome and cannot afford my patience in this matter. jerk."
Well apparently, it wasn't just the passing shoppers that heard me and gave me funny looks because today when I was in the bookstore I saw the note. THE NOTE! Book 4 due in November!!
Now every book has a different colour (blue,red,gold,& now green) and I would just like to state for the record to any that may care that I totally called green for the next cover! Told you so! Also I'm going to gamble a new rider, the last egg is green, and that Arya is that dragons rider. Green dragon becomes Saphira's made as Eragon and Arya become a couple and they fly off into the sunset after saving the world. We'll see Nov. 9th!
