Pawn of prophecy ebook

When it was fully light, Mister Wolf reined in his steaming horse and proceeded at a walk for a time. The weasel-faced man who had been shaking the snow out of the folds of his cloak looked around, trying to pick out a landmark in the misty veil of dropping flakes.

Even if Brill or Asharak should evade the Algars and follow us there, the legionnaires won't permit any foolishness within their walls. Mister Wolf chuckled.

Although it had stopped snowing, the road was still difficult, and the wind which blew in off the sea and across the broad, snow-covered salt marshes was raw and chill.

They stayed each night in the evenly spaced Sendarian hostels which stood like mileposts along that uninhabited stretch of coast. The hostels were not quite so well appointed as were their Tolnedran counterparts along the Great North Road, but they were at least adequate. Captain Brendig seemed solicitous about their comfort, but he also posted guards each night.

And it all started with this book. I was older. No doubt about that. Plus, I was a father now. Responsibilities and all that other grown up stuff weighing me down. And I have to admit that I was now a bit jaded about life.

Things were more gray now and a lot less black and white than back in my teen years. How dare they change! So why the five 5 star rating if I felt this way on my re-read you ask? Simple: I try to rate my favorite, childhood books by what I thought of them when I read them the first time. Maybe rating certain novels that way is wrong, but I cannot think of another way to be fair to a novel which I dearly loved at an earlier period of my life. And the truth of the matter is that when I read Pawn of Prophecy - not once but numerous times in the 80s - I absolutely loved it!

The simple plot and world spanning journeys of Garion bedazzled me, making me want more and more, and in my obviously biased opinion, it is still a great book for the right person - maybe another year-old boy trying to grow up. Because I truly believe that even in its simplicity Pawn of Prophecy can still speak to that person and begin them on their journey into the world of fantasy novels. For that reason - and all my personal memories of it - Pawn of Prophecy will always remain a 5 star book and one of my all-time favorite fantasy novels.

View all 17 comments. Apr 05, Nicole rated it liked it Shelves: , fantasy. The characters were interesting and the main character was decent however we never learn if he eventually learns to write, there are some minor plot holes. I'm looking forward to continuing this series, I've been dropping many lately so it's good to read a book and plan to read its sequel! View all 3 comments. And there we go - after posponing and postponing I've finally kicked off the last of the old great fantasy series on my long term fantasy reading quest.

Pawn of Prophecy is everything everyone makes it out to be. That is, it is a book which at first seems like a derivative, annoying teenage farmboy fantasy with very few redeeming qualities. For those who stick with it, however, it contains so much more. By the end of the book, I just wanted more immediately. After a painstakingly slow beginning, t And there we go - after posponing and postponing I've finally kicked off the last of the old great fantasy series on my long term fantasy reading quest.

After a painstakingly slow beginning, the book picks up pace, and by the end, it becomes a real page-turner. Most of the characters are significantly more enjoyable than their equivalents in many similar fantasy series, and while I understand that some people are annoyed that they're seemingly invincible and face few real challenges to their progress, I found it somewhat refreshing to not have to read through the kind of setback some authors use to create fake suspense.

While there are plenty of downsides, the world of the Belgariad becomes more and more enjoyable by each chapter.

View all 11 comments. Classical Fantasy in its finest! Brought back some of my childhood and the first Sparks of Love for the genre! Yes, I am sure my feelings are tainted by nostalgia, but if I had kids, I would definitely be reading this to them, just as my dad used to read it to me View all 10 comments. Dec 16, Anthony Ryan rated it it was amazing.

The first volume in the five book Belgariad series, which I'll happily admit to reading and then rereading throughout my mid-teens. Farm boy Garion enjoys a peaceful childhood in the care of his loving and occasionally stern Aunt Pol until the arrival of assassins sees them both on the run and Garion increasingly aware that he's much more important than he could have imagined.

This is where the classic 'chosen one' fantasy template gets going in earnest and it's rarely been done better. The scal The first volume in the five book Belgariad series, which I'll happily admit to reading and then rereading throughout my mid-teens.

The scale and detail of Eddings' world is often staggering and the interplay between the characters a frequent delight. Some elements will seem overly familiar to modern fantasy readers, from the prolonged info-dump in the prologue to the 'boy with a great destiny' central protagonist.

It should be remembered, however, that many of these elements became tropes because of Eddings' success. Genre history lessons aside, this series remains a hugely engaging read and the first volume is no exception. A lovely story, very similar to Grandma's bedtime stories. View 1 comment. Okay, I see all the glowing reviews and all the 4 and 5 star ratings Here I go again.

While I don't actually dislike this book I'm pretty far from liking it either. Mostly I struggled to stay awake and keep my mind on it. It starts out slow meanders around trying to find a plot in the midst of it's standard epic fantasy stereotypes and finishes telling me I should get the next book. Not for now, thanks.

The book wants very badly to be a standout epic. I mentioned elsewhere that it felt Okay, I see all the glowing reviews and all the 4 and 5 star ratings We are told about and later meet Polgara, Belgarath and Garion. Garion is a boy growing up on large and prosperous farm or farm-stead being raised by "Aunt Pol". Belgarth is a year old sorcer One of the other things that bugged me about this book is that while we get all kinds of portentous statements about Garion "Aunt Pol" who is raising him seems not to grasp [even though you'd think she'd be old enough to] that over protection may not be the way to go when a boy is the "expected one".

Garion gets into a fight Pol drags him back to the kitchen. Garion builds a raft and falls into a pond Garion "discovers girls" and Aunt Pol catches him in the barn with a pretty young woman getting a kiss and she He's never been taught to read, he's never been taught to swim Pol's not teaching him to be a hero or champion, she's teaching him to be a scullery worker.

When the boy hits 15 years old he starts to go on his first boar hunt, but "to allow it to happen" "Mr. Wolf" Belgarath must intervene. Aunt Pol was going to "put her foot down" and prevent it. Oh well. My only clear impression is that throughout the book we were always traveling. We're here and we need to go there. We get there and we find we need to go somewhere else. Once there another trip became necessary.

I joked that I probably wore out shoes reading the book. The same starts out here We're freighters Okay, it's become obvious we're not freighters. Now we'll travel as "fake royalty". Polgara likes that better anyway.

That is except for Garion I know a lot of you like this book and I'm not taking shots at it, it just didn't draw me in. I kept finding that my mind had wandered off the story, so enjoy if it's for you. This is I'd say a "try it yourself book". I didn't care for it and probably won't follow it up at least not till someone convinces me that I "simply must" try the next one. See what you think, not one I really care for.

And, frankly I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be an "Eddings fan". View all 22 comments. I thought I'm too old. I thought this wouldn't be challenging enough. I thought I'd be bored. Instead, I was deeply engrossed in this book, couldn't put it down.

Didn't want to put it down. This book is like sipping hot chocolate wrapped in a blanket while it snows outside. It's familiar, comforting, and it's fun. Of course, it's neither deep nor complex, but it resulted in a wonderful, heartwarming Saturday afternoon, and I can't wait to continue the series. Aug 19, W. Review here for the entire Belgariad. I noticed that most of the reviewers give this a nostalgic loved-this-when-I-was-young rating.

And they're right to do so. This is the perfect series of books for a young reader: clever enough to hold its own, exciting without being too graphic, and the youth don't notice just how bad the prose is. I mean, it's hilariously bad. It's not that the Eddings machine can't write for beans; it's that the writing does all the hackneyed nasty cliched things that you're Review here for the entire Belgariad.

It's not that the Eddings machine can't write for beans; it's that the writing does all the hackneyed nasty cliched things that you're supposed to get out of your system sometime shortly after high school.

For an effective drinking game, swig every time Eddings writes a Tom Swifty - "I can't swallow this peach," Garion choked. Or just sip; it happens on every page so you'll drink your share either way On rereading, though, two things struck me other than the bad prose. The first is, the characteriations are really swift, moving directly and smoothly from "yes you care about this person" to "this is what's happening to this person", usually in a couple paragraphs.

Drawing parallels for me to the adventure novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The brevity of the characetrizations are a real strength. The second thing I noticed was that there was something else going on here; glimpses of a cosmology of wonder and fascination beyond the play of the story itself. It was as though, every once in a while, the bottom dropped out of the floor and you realized you were in the midst of the ambitious project of an undiscovered author, the one thing he cares about more than anything else, and you have a front-row seat to teh story he wants to tell, yes, but more importantly you can see him constructing the stage props by hand in the wings, scrambling for everything he can get his hands on, and by some happy accident conjuring a genie that grants his greatest wish.

View all 5 comments. Jan 11, Nathan rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Nobody. Shelves: high-fantasy. When we're all looking for a good book to read, we usually look to our favourite authors and our best friends and trust their recommnendations as to what we should try next. Such as it was for me. The Belgariad was suggested to me by just about everyone I knew who enjoyed fantasy, and a number of my favourite authors.

Imagine my surprise when I start reading and keep waiting for the story's plot to begin, and it begins to dawn on me that no such relief will be arriving. The problems I have with th When we're all looking for a good book to read, we usually look to our favourite authors and our best friends and trust their recommnendations as to what we should try next.

The problems I have with the Belgariad are simple: The 'story' is so cliche An orphen boy who finds himself the subject of a prophecy to save the world, say it isn't so! Garion, the protagonist of the story, grows up an orphaned child with only his annoyingly mysterious Aunt Pol to take care of him.

I will definitely recommend this book to fantasy, fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, Pawn of Prophecy pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone.