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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
09-13-2006, 07:36 PM
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I didn't like Eragon. I haven't read Eldest yet, and probably won't for that matter. Eragon used so many worn out cliches it was almost unbearable! And it seemed like the boy got way too strong way too fast. The characters weren't really interesting. All in all, I think Eragon is very overrated. They are making movies and games of Eragon, but brilliant works such as Shannara are recieving nothing of the sort. Also, the book reminded me of a disney movie. A very very bad disney movie.
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10-26-2006, 05:49 PM
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Sigh, I'm guess I'm the odd man out. I belong to a forum that talks about Eragon and Eldest. CP may have a lot of areas that he needs to learn more, but I still really enjoy his books. Though he borrows a lot from other novels he has had some original ideas that I haven't seen from others. I'll take it I'm the only one lining up on the first day the movie comes out?
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10-27-2006, 05:22 PM
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I'd be there with you shade,except for the fact the movie makersmade arya blond ,and saphira gray.I really liked the books(I've read books that are tons better though).I agree with what all of you said*people go wha?* but there is somethinga bit addicting about his books.I can't put my finger on it,but there is something I like in the those books.Don't ask what because I don't know.
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10-27-2006, 06:35 PM
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Saphira is exactly many colours. Should I post the new poster to show you. Or go to Wikipedia and see it for youself. Arya and Eragon's changes have bugged me and a lot of people on the forum where I chatted about the series.
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11-06-2006, 09:43 AM
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Well, I did enjoy the Eragon and Eldest books and I knew what was going to happen. But, I did enjoy Rorans part in eldest. it's what kinda like me reading Halo the flood, I only kept reading because they showed the marines and Covenants part, instead of John. But Maybe we'll all get lucky and find out that peter jackson was serectly involved.
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12-21-2006, 02:43 PM
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I haven't actually read either (it's the whole "Da Vinci Code" thing again -- i.e. I refuse to read it BECAUSE it's so damn popular)
Anyway, from the one or so pages that I've read of Eragon, and the other comments by people who've read it - I think Eragon/Eldest has that "Harry Potter" factor - pretty generic, parallel plotlines, two-dimensional characters.... but nevertheless fun to read. Well, there must be SOMETHING good about it if so many have read it. Quite a lot good about it, in fact.
A people-pleasing book.
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12-21-2006, 03:42 PM
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All business, all marketing.
Clear enough?
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12-22-2006, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by mashowasho
I haven't actually read either (it's the whole "Da Vinci Code" thing again -- i.e. I refuse to read it BECAUSE it's so damn popular)
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Don't you want to read it to see what the fuss is about? That's the only reason I read the Da Vinci code. |
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12-22-2006, 02:25 PM
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Well I thought about it a bit, and I don't know if I'm alone on this one, but it seems like the Eragon and Eldest books got popular because, well, the COVER. Ok, now I hate Eragon and Eldest, but I remember when Eragon first came out, and I saw the front of the book and thought AWESOME! And the next day like seventeen kids in school had the book and were saying how good it was. But really what I think is that those kids who bought it, bought it because of the awesome painting on the cover, and weren't actually avid readers of any sort. Now if Eragon was the FIRST book I ever read, I would probably have loved it! Simply because I wasn't familiar with the Fantasy cliches that are so well established in other books already. The cover was so good that, regardless of whether the story was good or not, a lot of people were bound to buy it anyways. I finally read it this september and I was extremely dissapointed.
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12-22-2006, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by A Simple Man
All business, all marketing.
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Maybe it wasn't
It is a dumbed down construct deliberately created to ride the existing mass interest.
Cynical enough?
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12-22-2006, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by wowzer77
Now if Eragon was the FIRST book I ever read, I would probably have loved it! Simply because I wasn't familiar with the Fantasy cliches that are so well established in other books already.
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I think that's a very valid point. Even if it weren't the first book, but just the first fantasy book someone picks up, they may be very inclined to enjoy it, in the same way that I am more inclined to enjoy the first book I read from a particular author, before I become familiar and then usually bored with their writing scheme.
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12-22-2006, 09:17 PM
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I imagine just about everything imaginable has been said in favour of or against Eragon.
In the end, I foresee Paolini becoming a great writer someday. He has the talent, he merely has yet to find the right inspiration. At present I feel he is too deeply rooted in his inexperienced grasp of conventiions and a self-indulgent linguistic command. I see Eragon as a sort of first experiment along a path toward real achievement.
I suggest checking up on Mr. Paolini in a few years, once he's gotten his inheritance trilogy out of the way and has moved on to bigger and better things.
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12-22-2006, 09:20 PM
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The kid owns a real forge for making swords and shit. He's not going to move on to bigger and better things. He's going to marry a supermodel who'll divorce him and take half his money, and then he'll retreat further and further into his fantasy land as he spews forth more and more books based in his "epic" Eragon land, and then he'll die utterly alone either from old age or some misguided vigilante rage where he tries to kill a man holding a gun with one of his swords.
And we'll promptly forget about him.
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12-23-2006, 11:28 PM
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Good for him.
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12-29-2006, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Hodge
and then he'll die utterly alone either from old age or some misguided vigilante rage where he tries to kill a man holding a gun with one of his swords.
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Is that a reference to Mazes and Monsters? The 80's movie starring Tom Hanks? |
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