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Geek Culture / Anyone reading the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini?

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1tg46
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2004 10:48 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2004 11:35
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i am reading this for the book club at our school and I was wondering whether anyone has read this book, and if it was good or not and why?

If you have read the book, please do not spoild the ending.

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[edit]And when the next in the series comes out will you read it[/edit]


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Cian Rice
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It was okay, it was different.Different meaning it was about a boy, but it wasn't a harry potter style fantasy it was more like a Tolkein fantasy, get what I mean? It definatly wasn't the best of books though, I'll porbably read Eldest just cuz it's there.

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Well so far the book is really good. I have read the Harry Potter books , and it is not related to those, but I have not read the Lord of the Rings books so I would not know how similar it is to that.


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I was extremely dissapointed... all I can say about all the praise it got is that they must have been bought by the publisher (it happens). I'm glad young writers are getting their work published. I'm not glad the quality is so incredibly low. The book needed a few more drafts before it was even handed to the editor.

Why I didn't like it--

--100% predictable

--Completely unexplained setting with virtually no background; basically Tolkien fan fiction

--1-dimension characters

--Jerky prose, odd similies in it

--Excess on the melodrama

The biggest reason being #2, really. It's even more brutal a Tolkien ripoff than Dragonlance is; and while Dragonlance is largely a tongue-in-cheek fantasy setting, Eragon actually takes itself quite seriously, despite the entire world being 80% Tolkien, 15% Norse mythology and 5% Paolini's invention.

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Yeah it was predictible, I knew that Brom guy would have to be one of the riders and of course, the guide always dies! And I know it's no related to Harry Potter what I meant by that statement was "it's about a boy who learns he is either from a famous blood line or is incredibly famous in an alternate world or is from a line of warriors or discovers he has the ability to see the future..." stuff like that.
But I think alot of it came from The Dragon Riders of Pern too.

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Harry Potter is truly fantastic in its wit, prose and contained but intricate scope... but I wouldn't really compare Paolini to Rowling because of the differences in their style and subject matter, and the age difference. But seeing as Paolini ripped Tolkien off big time, it's hard to not compare them...

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Yeah, I really meant the fact that there both kids. But yeah Harry Potter kicks Eragons's blue little ass.

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Posted: 2nd Oct 2004 12:12 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2004 12:13
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Anyone else read the book Eragon?


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what exactly do you mean by ?


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I have, 90th time last friday. Good book, but predictable.

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My brother has. I think it was a success.

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