[Daring Scylla]

hok then that was just my incorrect interpretation. sorry about that.

I never even saw the movie but I heard awful things about it, even from people who like the books

Suzerain, I know what you meant - that's what I've been trying to say. Not even the style so much as all archetypal fantasy tropes and inspirations have been shoved into the book. I personally enjoyed tolkienn's books, but you're right that's not the question at hand.

I feel like his books are just too shallow-the bottom line is they have no substance for me. It's not that i only like tolkien's special brand of fantasy -i don't want to read the same things over and over again.

I also read some of the books paolini plagiarized from, and that just really killed it for me.