Cpt. Smurf

:shock: Well, that just will not do. *Edits Wikipedia article* Ooh, I'm such a vandal! But honestly, what warped Paolini fan put that up there?

Finished Atonement - and, generally, I thought it was pretty good. Naturally, there were some bits that didn't really motivate me, and McEwan has a tendency, I feel, to ramble ...

Paolini is one of those writers you just want to grab my the neck, strangle and scream at, while burning his manuscipts and books, throwing Lord of the Rings at ...

In Brisingr , the third book in the Inheritance cycle, Eragon will meet a god! So, what are your thoughts? Should this be taken literally? Is it significant? Is it ...

Since mine is high fantasy middle-ages stuff, I keep well away from it. Of course, you can be unique, and go for it, but that would be too adventurous for ...

Finally finished Son of a Witch - will be starting on Atonement tonight, and am really looking forward to it. I think I'm really getting my passion for reading back ...

Is this like that article that came out when JK Rowling outed Dumbledore (it was posted somewhere on YWS, but I can't find it now) that claimed that just because ...

It doesn't bother me. Actually I really like that shade of red. That's what keeps me sane when someone's drawing my blood. Sometimes its easier for me to look at ...

Can anyone imagine that this guy sat down and decided that each and every element of his story had to have a symbolic meaning?? =P It seems like my teacher ...

EDIT: Yeah, she could have been, or maybe there are just many interpretations? Yeah, sure. That's the beauty with metaphor, and literary works as a whole - it's all open ...

I think you're missing the point - girls weren't left out of the book because Golding found them inferior. They weren't on the island because of the stereotypically violent nature ...

I wasn't aware that the killing of the pig was a metaphor for rape. A pretty strange conclusion to come to, if you ask me. And the reason that it's ...

:backtotopic: OK, I think the tangent has gone a bit far. If you want to discuss these other books, by all means make a thread for them, but, here, do ...

Paolin and plagiarism? I suppose it tells us what not to do. He was a 15 year old kid when he wrote eragon to be fair... To be honest, that's ...

OK, I've just started reading Eldest (it's some free thing on the internet - no way would I pay to read this drivel) and in the very first paragraph I ...