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Originally Posted by Kotetsu
Oh, please NEVER think the movie comes even close to the books.
Even the die-hard Eragon fanboys and fangirls loathe that movie. xD
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at the risk of bringing your wrath down on me- i always try to avoid internet conflicts because they're so damn unimportant, so please don't take this as offense, I'd like to point something out. the person you're quoting didn't say anything about the movies comparing to the books. you may not be reproaching them for this reason, and i might be looking at it the wrong way , but it doesn't look very nice.
come to that, i took a look at the article you suggested, and i do find it very interesting. some of the points the writer makes are things i have noticed as well, as I've read several of the books Paolini was inspired by
in my own opinion, paolini's works are tripe that you can enjoy if you're a young kid who likes to think yourself intelligent by reading a book that is so big it could be used as a door stop. the books are also something you can enjoy if you turn your brain off. to me, they are cheap entertainment (though not by the prices in stores) hiding behind the cover of a tolkien-esque style novel. I read them with half-interest, but have no desire to own them. to each his own.
they don't hold a lot of interest to me, but I'm not going to freak out if someone else likes them - it's an opinion, for the love of Mary, and you've a right to it.
Something interesting to me is that his parents owned the publishing company that produced his book. if he had gone through more editing and used a little more originality, his books might have been better.
My problem with his books is not so much that he obviously lifted scenes, ideas, names, and concepts straight out of other fictional works, but that he was so damn blatant about it. Writers re-invent the wheel all the time, but if they're good, they're subtle about it. Paolini pretty much threw down everything he liked that someone else did in a book and expected us to be impressed, and that's the part that I think is a little lame. :cool: