Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. It all began with The Eye of the World and then developed into a bit of a fantasy obsession. Well, it's not really an obsession. It's taking a very long time to finish the first book of a series of 14 due to the language used within the story. It's not rude or anything, just very complicated. Pick up the first book and read the first sentence and you should very quickly see what I mean. Despite this though...
... when I was walking down the high street, I noticed a plethora of charity shops. Having worked in one over the summer and seen some good deals, I decided to nip into three. A couple of DVDs were bought from one whilst from another, I saw a fantastic deal: Books 2-11 of The Wheel of Time being sold in batches of three for £2. Doing the maths, this is...
10/3 = 3, 1 remainder
2*3 + 2 (the remaining book was sold for £2 on its own) = £8.
So I managed to basically complete my collection up to book 11 for only £8! Determined not to see my money go to waste (even though it wasn't much to begin with), I've set myself the target of reading at least a chapter a night. It's very slow going, given that there are over 50 chapters in the first book alone, but I'm getting somewhere. I'm halfway in fact.
In other news, I've been away a lot recently since I've got sooooo much to do. I have like, 6 assignments due in by the 6th of December. I handed in one essay a day early so I don't have to panic about it, but now I have to do a report then essay then presentation then bibliography .. it's going to be a long week.
10/3 = 3, 1 remainder
2*3 + 2 (the remaining book was sold for £2 on its own) = £8.
So I managed to basically complete my collection up to book 11 for only £8! Determined not to see my money go to waste (even though it wasn't much to begin with), I've set myself the target of reading at least a chapter a night. It's very slow going, given that there are over 50 chapters in the first book alone, but I'm getting somewhere. I'm halfway in fact.
In other news, I've been away a lot recently since I've got sooooo much to do. I have like, 6 assignments due in by the 6th of December. I handed in one essay a day early so I don't have to panic about it, but now I have to do a report then essay then presentation then bibliography .. it's going to be a long week.