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Best first effort by a teenager I'm aware of. Seriously, are you all so picky about everything?
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12-24-2006, 03:36 PM | #63 | |
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Only fanticy books,
If you haven't nodiced most of us are LOTR fans and as such hold higher standerds for fanticy storys in all forms... And Eragon is a fragile story, if someone does to it what Peter Jackson did to LOTR you've got a certan warlock I am aginst ("wizard" to his friends lol )
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I started Eragon today. So far I'm really enjoying it. It has had me asking questions from the begining. I love it!
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I just finished Eldest. I have one word: WOW! I loved it! Now I'm going to have to wait for the next and final book in the Inheritance Trilogy. I have to say he is a very very good writer. He keeps the reader hooked from page one. Not very many authors can do that. I love how he keeps your attention with plot twists and plenty of them.
Hopefully we will see other works after he wraps Inheritance *crosses fingers*
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That is one thing that can be said for the books, they do have a rather engageing plot
(Although rittled with overused plot devices to the point that it's funny)
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I've actually read Eragon now. It was okay. I certainly enjoyed myself, and read it in one sitting.
Parts I like about the book: -Arya -Murtagh -Urgals -The plot moved along at a good pace -It was very readable -I enjoyed myself - ... Well, at least he finished his manuscript. Parts I didn't like: -Blatant Tolkien rip-off -Blatant Ursula K. LeGuin rip-off -Annoying illogical things, like the town he was from. They were supposed to be poor farmers, but a large group of merchants came every year to buy surplus grain at what must have been generous prices, because the merchants also sell a lot of luxiries. They also bring troubadors. Waaa? - Also, who walks ten miles, or whatever, just to fix a chisel? Why wouldn't you accomplish a number of errands? But, you know, farmers have a huge amount of free time - Eragon himself has ridiculous skills, luck, power, respect, and learning ability.
-The plot was fairly predictable; I predicted these plot points:
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I think he wrote his book with a pen in one hand, and Lord of the Rings and A Wizard of Earthsea in the other. These elements were ripped off from Tolkien: - the elves that "came from the west in silver ships" - Kulls = Uruk-hai - Shades = Nazguls - only Tolkien has written a Dwarf-Elf conflict that didn't seem completely artificial, so this seems like a rip-off (though in this case, he's not the only one) This crucial plot-point was ripped off from Ursula K. LeGuin: - The true name aspect of magic, including everyone having their own true name, the true names for all things in the world, keeping one's true name a secret because if someone knew it they would have power over you, and not everyone knows their true name So. That takes out most of the good bits. Which means that in my opinion he's a fairly unoriginal author. Another aspect I didn't enjoy was the complete imbecile Brom. This is the intellectual wasteland who decided to train someone to fight by giving him at least one concussion, but giving no useful instruction whatsoever in any martial art. Because he's an irritating little Marty Stu, Eragon learns everything anyway. That drove me completely nuts. Also, the pointless withholding of information was very annoying. It was just a weak attempt to build up suspense in the book. Eragon is like MSG: You enjoy it until ten minutes after you're done, and then you feel completely unsatisfied and slightly ill.
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The funny thing is that I though the urguls were the one of the few origanal ideas in the book... I guess the antlers through me off.
And by the way, do you think some of that ought to be in spoiler tags?
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I throughly enjoyed it.
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Spoiler warning... But my opinions are in there too...
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(Cation, some spoilers in spoiler tags)
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Allthough it is very funny... The very consept of a
I personaly think
As I've said,
But that could just be due to my strange strange sence of humor.
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Something just occered to me. Maybe the kull arn't an uruk-hai rip off...
Not to say that they are origanal but to say tolkien wasn't the first to try something like this. Well my point is that to gobblins (In LOTR also known as orcs) there have been for ages hobgobblins which are bigger stonger gobblins. So uruk-hai aren't as origanal as beleaved but the kull aren't exactly uruk-hai rip offs.
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Yeah, I guess I have a strange of humor... But as your siggy says:
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As I have said before you are a strange one
Thank you, btw
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You're welcome (And now for something... Compleatly diffent)
Can't anyone remember the name of that forsworn guy? I can't and his name never shows up in this thread everyone just calls him "what's-his-face/pickle" Anyway my usual spoilery rant bit on this thread:
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Thank you
The rest is in spoilers as it will have spoilery stuff in it...
And well, that's it for now...
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