Eragon

your mean, what did Christopher Paolani do to you?

lol

Originally posted by Swirly Girl
Honestly, the movie will probably be better than the godawful book; but one always maintains a glimmer of hope that more people will see it for the deriviative, awfully written and general rubbish piece of writing that it is.

Dammit will you just GO AWAY!!! We know what you think about the books, and funnily enough, NOT ONE OF US CARES!!!!!!!!!! What, do ypou think that one of us is suddenly going to turn around and say "Hey, I never noticed how bad this book was before, I agree with you."?

Here's a little pointer, right?

THATS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Just please, stop trying to convince us that the book is bad, we like it and going over the same arguments repeatedly is just going to get everyone really annoyed and just make them stop listening to you COMPLETELY!

Woah, I sound really nasty. Oops...

I think the book is really god. I'm reading it right now..But is it true that it's made by a 15 years old? 😖

Originally posted by el_barto
what the hell!?!?!?!? he used one word from starwars "empire" and do you see a resistance or flying robots or light sabers?. All i see is a kid a dragon and an old man on a quest

LoL, the empire is not from starwars. So you can't say he copied it.

I mean it's not made from starwars. Because i know it's a empire there.

Originally posted by el_barto
why do you say "do not promote this book" maybe some people will like it if they read it? Does the whole world have to agree with you?

I agree.

THANK YOU!

Andyes, he was fifteen when he started writing it. he's twenty something now I think. I can't wait until the film! just in time for Christmas!

Wait a second...'Eragon'...take away the 'E', and you're left with...wait a second...'ragon'...Then...wait a second...add...add a 'D' and you get...wait a second...'Dragon'. IT'S THE SUPER SECRET THAT NO-ONE ELSE KNOWS AND I JUST SOLVED IT! I RULE THE SWORD PEOPLE WITH LIGHTNING! AHAHAHAHA! I WIN THE WORLD! I WANT IT NOT!

Go ahead and rule. I rule the water people with...umm...ME! HA HA! BEAT THAT!!!

BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO A TREE!

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Wait a second...'Eragon'...take away the 'E', and you're left with...wait a second...'ragon'...Then...wait a second...add...add a 'D' and you get...wait a second...'Dragon'. IT'S THE SUPER SECRET THAT NO-ONE ELSE KNOWS AND I JUST SOLVED IT! I RULE THE SWORD PEOPLE WITH LIGHTNING! AHAHAHAHA! I WIN THE WORLD! I WANT IT NOT!

That's not genius, that's magic. mhm

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO A TREE!

ME TO- wait, what? HOW DARE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN FISH!!!!!

Oh that isn't fair! look at these dates!:

Egypt 13 December 2006
Australia 14 December 2006
Belarus 14 December 2006
Germany 14 December 2006
Hong Kong 14 December 2006
Hungary 14 December 2006
Israel 14 December 2006
Kazakhstan 14 December 2006
Netherlands 14 December 2006
Portugal 14 December 2006
Russia 14 December 2006
Singapore 14 December 2006
Slovenia 14 December 2006
South Korea 14 December 2006
Ukraine 14 December 2006
Denmark 15 December 2006
Estonia 15 December 2006
Finland 15 December 2006
Iceland 15 December 2006
India 15 December 2006
Mexico 15 December 2006
Norway 15 December 2006
Peru 15 December 2006
Spain 15 December 2006
Sweden 15 December 2006
Turkey 15 December 2006
UK 15 December 2006
USA 15 December 2006
Venezuela 15 December 2006
Japan 16 December 2006
Belgium 20 December 2006
France 20 December 2006
Italy 22 December 2006
Brazil 29 December 2006
Argentina 4 January 2007

England doesn't get it until after all those other places!!!

Opening Commentary:

There are massive spoilers ahead. If you don't want to be spoiled, take my advice and grab a copy of this book from your local library. That's where I got my copy, and I would be royally peeved if I'd spent money on it. That said, it's a decent read, which would probably be even more appealing if you're under 14 and don't know a darn thing about writing. Seriously, even amateur writers are turned into the most picky readers.

Good:

Details – The world, Alagaesia, is pretty well described.

Realism – The characters feel pain and aren't impervious to the elements.

Fair:

Action – Most of the action was decent, even good. There was still the occasion when the action didn't seem to flow well at all.

Bad:

Characters – Brom, as the mentor guy, was the stereotypical mentor-guy to the Nth degree. Eragon learned to read in a week and learned to be 2nd best swordsman in Alagaesia w/in 6-8 months. Even for archetype hero that batters the suspension of disbelief.

Cliches – farm boy à hero; Brom = hero's mentor. Why doesn't anyone know who the heck their mother is?? (Speculation: it wouldn't surprise me if Eragon and Murtagh are brothers. We suspiciously are never told the name of Murtagh's mother, and she did disappear for awhile…); Evil king; hordes of monsters; fair elves; Brom gone, Murtagh show's up.

Plot – It's all been said before so I shall be brief here. Eragon is pretty much LOTR, Star Wars, Chronicles of Narnia, and several other fantasy/sci-fi stories thrown in a cauldron, viciously mixed about, and dumped out in a sticky heap. Beyond that, even though it was a journey it was so darn repetitive I was left dazed and struggling to plod through it all. Summary of massively long journey all over this world: leave home, obtain horse, ride, ride, ride, reach town and get in a fight, ride, ride, ride, ride, reach another town – best a bully – walk into a standoff, get supplies, ride, ride, ride…etc.

Dialogue – Aside from the unnatural flow of modern day speak to medieval to made-up, the dialogue is unduly wordy. Even Brom the storyteller comes off as wordy. By the time I got to Murtagh's back story I couldn't help but count; in the hardback version, it spans pages 387-391! In all those pages, perhaps 1 paragraph is description; the rest is Murtagh telling his sob story.

Grammar – I have three pages of notes on this. Most of them have to do with commas, which is no big deal. However, my major grammatical nit (and I'm not even sure it's 100% correct) is that more than one character is present in many paragraphs. For example, this is often what I see: one character speaks; the actions or reactions of another are described; the first character speaks again. I believe b/t lines of dialogue you need to stick with the same character. You can still describe the second character's actions/reactions, but it must be phrased so that the sentence is still in the point of view of your first character. (Sorry if I'm massively confusing anyone.)

Closing Commentary:

If you've made it this far, you've either read the book or don't mind spoilers. In the former case, you may agree or disagree as you will. In the latter case, I will only say: libraries are our friends.

Earlier I said i was reading Eragon

Than I said I Stopped, but now I've decided to try again

ITS REALLY GOOD

it does have the same plot line as star wars
But i still am really sucked into this book 😉

many people like Eragon, even if it is poorly written, formulaic etc...I think the draw is that it's like star wars, and all those fantasy thingies.

Originally posted by Julie
many people like Eragon, even if it is poorly written, formulaic etc...I think the draw is that it's like star wars, and all those fantasy thingies.

the main reason i like it is because after the first few chapters i thought it was just easier to read with out my mind drifitng

The prologue was good...it was all down hill from there....esp that middle part. I mean formulaic is fine but make it go somewhere!

Originally posted by Julie
The prologue was good...it was all down hill from there....esp that middle part. I mean formulaic is fine but make it go somewhere!

well im not finished with it yet

i dont like prologues

my favorite part is whenever saphira is around but mostly when she was just a tiny dragon.

Is 'Eragorn' the one about chocolate dinosaurs?