Before I start with this blog I should warn you that
there could be spoilers and points that will be looked at in future
blogs(but I won't highlight them like last time).
I have always been a fan of well written and interesting stories but there was always one medium that I found really hard to get into and that was reading. You wouldn't have through that someone like myself would not have a problem but due to me being dyslexia and the fact that when I was younger I would get anger at myself and others when I couldn't read something.
Now that I am older, have more patience and the improvements in technology it has become easier for me to read books due to the fact that if I get stuck on a word I can type it into my phone and get the definition straightaway so that I can carry on but there was also one other item that helped me and that was a Peter Hamilton book called Pandora's Star
Back in 2005 the idea of me going into a book shop was unheard of but I was told by my mum that if I wanted more interesting stories then I should consider looking towards the idea of reading books, so that is what I did on a hot summers day.
When entering the book shop I decided that I would head towards the genre that I loved the most which is science fiction, upon arriving I couldn't believe how many books there were and I had no idea where to start until I discovered a recommendation card on one of the shelf. Upon reading this card I knew straight away that I needed to have this book so that I could find out what really happened and where the story would take me.
It's hard to believe that the first book that I picked up, read and enjoyed since I left school would have this much of an impact. Every word that I read made me believe that this story, characters and the world was real and that I wanted to read on to find out what was going to happen to them all.
By the time I got to the end of the book I had this feeling that the human race may not survive the war and that the book was going to be left on a cliff hanger. The best thing about most cliff hangers is that if the story is written well can leave the person trying to guess what the outcome is going to be, but lucky for me I only had to wait a day so that I could read what was going to happen next.
The joy of Pandora's Star and many of Peter Hamilton's works that I have read is that his stories are well written and interesting with twist that you wouldn't have suspected and that you can tell this is a story that he wanted to tell.
If you haven't already read any of his books then I would to recommend his The Commonwealth Saga, The Night's Dawn Trilogy and The Void Trilogy
Until next time.
I have always been a fan of well written and interesting stories but there was always one medium that I found really hard to get into and that was reading. You wouldn't have through that someone like myself would not have a problem but due to me being dyslexia and the fact that when I was younger I would get anger at myself and others when I couldn't read something.
Now that I am older, have more patience and the improvements in technology it has become easier for me to read books due to the fact that if I get stuck on a word I can type it into my phone and get the definition straightaway so that I can carry on but there was also one other item that helped me and that was a Peter Hamilton book called Pandora's Star
Back in 2005 the idea of me going into a book shop was unheard of but I was told by my mum that if I wanted more interesting stories then I should consider looking towards the idea of reading books, so that is what I did on a hot summers day.
When entering the book shop I decided that I would head towards the genre that I loved the most which is science fiction, upon arriving I couldn't believe how many books there were and I had no idea where to start until I discovered a recommendation card on one of the shelf. Upon reading this card I knew straight away that I needed to have this book so that I could find out what really happened and where the story would take me.
It's hard to believe that the first book that I picked up, read and enjoyed since I left school would have this much of an impact. Every word that I read made me believe that this story, characters and the world was real and that I wanted to read on to find out what was going to happen to them all.
By the time I got to the end of the book I had this feeling that the human race may not survive the war and that the book was going to be left on a cliff hanger. The best thing about most cliff hangers is that if the story is written well can leave the person trying to guess what the outcome is going to be, but lucky for me I only had to wait a day so that I could read what was going to happen next.
The joy of Pandora's Star and many of Peter Hamilton's works that I have read is that his stories are well written and interesting with twist that you wouldn't have suspected and that you can tell this is a story that he wanted to tell.
If you haven't already read any of his books then I would to recommend his The Commonwealth Saga, The Night's Dawn Trilogy and The Void Trilogy
Until next time.
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