As The Book of Three begins, Taran seeks more excitement and adventure than he currently finds working on the farm. This fantasy series centers on an Assistant Pig-Keeper named Taran, raised on a farm by the ancient enchanter Dallben and the humble farmer Coll.

And a lot of it comes from the fact that Lloyd Alexander likes to end chapters with obnoxious cliffhangers that make it hard to put the book down. Part of this comes from the fact that they’re familiar, and so I like spending time with them. Part of this comes from the fact that they are intended for younger audiences and so are very quick reads. The Chronicles of Prydain series contains some of the only books not in the Ender series that I’ve read in a single day. Over the next two days, I finished that book and read The Castle of Llyr and Taran Wanderer, and a short time later, I read through The High King. A few hours later, I had finished the book and started The Black Cauldron. I only intended to take a look at it, maybe try to remember a bit of the plot. Many years later, while I was on a break between semesters of college, I was staring at the bookshelf in my parents’ basement and picked up The Book of Three. While I know I enjoyed the series a lot, I don’t have much of a memory of my first time reading them I was reading a lot of books at the time and nothing really had time to leave much of an impression.

I quickly devoured the excitement and adventure, and quickly moved on to other books. Somewhere near the beginning of my time with chapter books, my mom recommended The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.

Way back in elementary school, I started to become pretty serious about reading.

The chronicles of prydain review