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The Inheritance Trilogy

Postby Fantasy Dreamer » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:58 am

Has anybody read those two books here?

Its an on-going trilogy written by Christopher Paolini, a young author who wrote the first book at 15 years of age. The first book is titled Eragon and the second Eldest. The third isn't out yet, but I look forward to it.

So, has anybody read them/reading them?
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Postby Felix » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:07 pm

If memory serves me, there's already at least one thread on this series, but oh well. I did read the first one and I might take a peeksy at the second. I thought it was pretty good especially since he's just a kid.
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Postby Jman » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:30 am

I'm not one to ask on these situations, since I'm more involved in adult fantasy, but....I HATE THIS BOOK WIH A PASSION! Paloni takes waaaaaay to long to devolop the story, I searously whasted a Good 5 hours straight of my life reading all the way through half the book, AND THEN THE ACTION STARTS!

ok, my rant.

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Postby truthgone12 » Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:56 am

I know the book is being touted is a literary masterpiece when so many books are better than it all this book did was copy from star wars to the Lord of the rings.
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Postby Jman » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:09 am

ok, Please exuse my rant, my friend litterally forced me to read some of it last night again....I was up from 12:00 to 3:00 am reading it, it's actually Pretty good!

so, Yeah excuse the brutal rant.

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Postby HwaRang777 » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:15 am

I like his work he's not too detailed for my tastes (and while I like LotR, I think that that is too detailed for me, but I still liked it), plus in general, I like anything with swords.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:23 am

Plus its really unoriginal and the guy's parents were publishers so he got fame pretty much served on a silver plater. What's not to like? (lol)
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Postby Myoti » Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:39 am

It's pretty good, though quite a bit cliched. That, and Eragon passes out, what, eight times in the first book? XO

My friend has the second. Maybe I can get him to let me read it...
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Postby truthgone12 » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:56 am

I wasted like 10 hours on that book and what did I get: CLICHES, and I get to know that some kids will probably try to say that eragon is better than LOTR. Little do they know that Mr.paolini is a plagarist.
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Postby SnowLeopard » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:58 pm

I was slightly annoyed with all the literary theft in these books. The upside of it though is that he views everything in the world he created with a sense of wonder. That is the primary reason I enjoyed both of them.
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Postby Locke » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:04 pm

Well... I liked it.

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Postby FarmGirl » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:45 pm

It is not as good as LoTR.
It's nothing new, but worth the read anyway.
The cover art is very good.
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