The Mood of a Warrior

Writing an essay on a book or story I have read, this is definitely a tough topic to write about, considering the fact I've never bee too much of a reader.

Not that I don't like reading, I just never really find that book that catches my interest enough to finish it. Although, when I was younger, I did read a couple of "Goosebumps" books, and every now and then, in school, we would read some stories together, but that doesn't really count. During my junior year I started reading Harry Potter, but I kind of gave up on him and his friends half way through the book.

Then one day I picked up a book called "Hot Zone." It was about the origin of the Ebola virus and how once you where infected you start to bleed through literally every opening in your body. But once again, for some odd unexplainable reason, I closed the book. And never opened it again.

But then, I met a very interesting character, someone that stood out a bit. There was something about this person that would always leave me pondering. Once I began to really know him, I realized we agreed on some of the same aspects of life. We had a tendency to wonder why some things were the way they where. Some might call this meaningless teenage metaphysics, others might not, regardless, one day he told me there was this book that I had to read. It was a book by an author named Carlos Castaneda who spends months of his life living, "learning" and recording the ways of a shaman/sorcerer. Supposedly Castaneda started talking to this shaman, because he wanted to research the hallucingogen pryote, and it turns out he had a lot more to learn.

This book definitely caught my interest from the beginning, because it is supposedly a true story, and this shaman supposedly has special powers, and as you go on in the book you learn as well as Castaneda was supposedly learning. The shaman talks about things like controlling your dreams, how there are plaves on earth that have more energy than others and then he starts making cars dissapear and stuff, and that's when things started going from interesting to complete and udder nonsence. This book, I did finish and when I finished it, I wasn't to satisifed. But anyway it was the first book that really caught my attention, and sent me on a path, "The Journey to Ixtlan, The Mood of a Warrior."