A Short 文章 on First 阅读 Pawn of Prophecy
Rather than try to recapitulate the plot 或者 stylistically analyse the novel I put 前锋, 期待 the impact that a first encounter with Eddings had upon an eleven 年 old boy.
Absent from school through sickness on a friday morning back in 1991 I picked up an arrestingly covered book that I had borrowed from the school 图书馆 a couple of days previously. Under the aegis of a duvet I still remember the sense of thrill and wonder that ran through me as Garion and Rundorig reenacted Brand the Rivan Warden and Torak's duel at the Battle of Vo Mimbre. I...
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