Fantasy Epics

I have recently been reading through the 'Wheel of Time' books. I am currently half way through book 9. Only 4 more to go!

A friend and a work colleague both suggested I read 'Game of Thrones'. This will have to wait for 'Wheel of Time' to be completed, and given that we have no television, I can choose when to watch the consequent series on DVD.

So I was searching for it on Amazon to see if it was available for Kindle. I found it, and was reading the product description, only to stumble upon the reccommendation that 'it's the greatest fantasy epic of modern time!'

'Hang on a minute' I thought. 'That's generally language attributed to 'Wheel of Time''. I checked, and it turns out that pretty much every fantasy book has some such reccommendation, so I decided to come up with a few of my own:

Harry Potter: Biggest fantasy phenomenon of our time
Twilight: Romeo and Juliet meets fantasy in the greatest Romance for young people (although, this is NOT my reccommendation)
Wheel of Time: Greatest Fantasy Epic of our Time (Given that it's just so darn long!)
The Inheritance Cycle: Written by the luckiest 15 year old I know
His Dark Materials: The greatest fantasy deception of our time

None of which truly compare to the classic fantasy of C.S. Lewis' 'Narnia' series, or the immortal Tolkein in 'Lord of the Rings'.

FYI, on my Kindle, I will be reading the first edition stories of the Brothers Grimm, as well as a little Jules Vern. Should be quite exciting. Until then.

Acquiring Kindle and other matters

Ok, I have recently made a luxury purchase. Not that I condone this all the time, mind, but allow me to provide some setting.

My husband and I are currently residing in a caravan while we await housing to become available through his job. Therefore, we have very little space. I had still been purchasing books and making use of the free book exchange at the reception desk, but books sure do take up a lot of space.

So, as soon as I discovered free classics were on offer through Amazon's Kindle store, I went out and purchased my very own e-reader.

I was a little nervous at first, thinking I would miss physically holding a book in my hand, but you know what? Once you have a case on that baby, it's actually a lot more comfortable to read, because you don't have to squirm arround to read the skinny side!

So hopefully I can speed up the rate of which I read these classics.

For now, I also recently purchased every available 'Wheel of Time' book, in the hopes of finishing in time for the next installment.