Brisingr (Eragon 3) Spoiler

Shurtugal.com wrote: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 different enough to get away from the LOTR/Star Wars rip-off claims? etc. etc.

Discuss!

Wow. I always thought Paolini was off his rocker, but meeting a God? What pap. Considering the quality of the writing in Eragon and Eldest, I seriously doubt that he'll be able to make it seem... well-written. It won't be believable, if books one and two are anything to go by.

Ridiculous.

Jeez.

More originality from the wonder boy author.

Nurse, fetch the paddles. I think the patient's heart just stopped.

Legasp! Eragon's going to talk with Paolini's OTHER alter-ego!

While I never got even halfway through Eldest, I've heard that Paolini's glorious atheist elves ragged on religion and gods a lot. So I think it's more likely that this god is evil, weak, not really a god, or some combination of those.

This is how I see the conversation going:

E: Oh, hello. You must be God.

G: YES. DON'T BOTHER ME.

E: Er, sorry, but I really need your help to defeat Galbatorix...

G: SHHH. I'M NOT DONE YET.

E: Not done with what?

G: I'M TRYING TO BEAT HALO 3 ON LEGENDARY. IT'S ABOUT AS HARD AS CONVINCING PEOPLE THAT THE 'ERAGON' MOVIE WAS GOOD.

E: How hard is that?

G: IMPOSSIBLE. NOW GO AWAY.

E: Look! I really need you to--

Saphira: Don't be rude, Eragon. This is a tough level. Jesus.

*Jesus pokes his head up from beside God*

J: Eh?


...and so on.

The books aren't great, but if nothing else they are popular, and promote young people actually READING for a change and getting their noses out of their cell phones, 4-wheelers, or whatever.

So, which God is that? The God of Overusing Purple Prose, or the God of C***py Dialogue? Is he also going to meet the Demon of Originality by any chance?

In my heart of hearts I nurse a faint hope...

That Eragon is purposefully an arrogant, foolish protagonist

That Murtagh is *meant* to be so much cooler than Eragon

That there's a reason that the elves are both powerful, and yet inept at philosophy (an atheist vegan does not a wise one make)

That no good reason other than the Ra'zac is provided for the Varden being less evil than Galbatorix.

Now follow me on this one.
Gods exist
Therefore elves are wrong
Therefore Riders may have been less awesome in the past (as they were mainly elvish)
therefore Galbatorix might have been right to overthrow them
therefore Eragon is evil, or at least misguided. but at least on the wrong side

this means that you have a good overall plot hidden behind two books of farce and a few hundred pages of purple prose.

Hoping,
Rubric

Please avoid profanity in critiques. - Nate

Ru, that would require forethought and creative brilliance. According to Paolini's history books, those haven't been invented yet.

Stupid Home-schooler.

Kang227 wrote:Stupid Home-schooler.

(FYI, we're not all that bad. )

What I'm hoping to see, at the very least, is a god who actually ACTS and walks around as a god. The whole "gods and angels walking around as shabby travelers" thing in fiction is just way overdone. Even for Paolini.
Then Eragon would be, like, forced to his knees. Pride broken.

Paolini is so arrogant that I wouldn't be surprised if that passage went like this.

Eragon struggled to see past the blinding light which surrounded the figure like an a floodlight at a football stadium.

"W-Who are you?" he asked. "I can't see."

"Sorry," apologised the figure.(:)) The lights went down. "I'm Christopher Paolini, and I'm your creator."

*Bad writing wasdone on purpose.

I can almost hear Eragon's cry of hopelessness.

Fan wrote:Paolini is so arrogant that I wouldn't be surprised if that passage went like this.

Eragon struggled to see past the blinding light which surrounded the figure like an a floodlight at a football stadium.

"W-Who are you?" he asked. "I can't see."

"Sorry," apologised the figure.(:)) The lights went down. "I'm Christopher Paolini, and I'm your creator."

*Bad writing wasdone on purpose.

I can almost hear Eragon's cry of hopelessness.

Lol!
XD I was thinking more like,

The figure was tall, handsome, and devilishly sexy. His face was finely chiseled, manly and his eyes were crepuscular pools of magma that shone like long-suffering stars. Cascades of divine and choral music fell like a waterfall in Hawaii around him, and fog drifted in vertiginous spirals, shifting through all hues of the rainbow.
Eragon was bowled over by the image of perfection before him and knelt in instinctual reverence.

"Who are you, o great one?" asked Eragon, his voice strained as the light and sounds of angelic trumpets reached a staggering crescendo.

"I'm Christopher Paolini, your creator."

For the record, I am also homeschooled.

But I hope he DOESN'T pull a Dark Tower and include himself in his books.

Legasp! Eragon's going to talk with Paolini's OTHER alter-ego!"

Eh heh heh heh.
I sadly am going to at least skim this book to find out what happens to Murtahg.... I hate getting unreasonable crushes on fictional characters. I hope they just kill him and get it over with.