Brisingr (Eragon 3) Spoiler

Well then let us make it a bit clearer for the poor soul. =D

Dear Mr. Paolini:

YOU SUCK!

Sincerely,
A Real Writer.

Cpt. Smurf wrote:Lol! Thing is, he'd probably only understand the first sentence, and then get all confused at the rest.

You're right. Not nearly superfluous enough for him.

How about we write the letters using purple ink?

This is how it'll probably go:

Eragon contued walking, left foot, right foot, left foot...

Suddenly, light came and carried him on top a a cloud for no apparent reason! The evil god had caught him! But Eragon knew how to defeat him!

"I will turn you to the size of my author's writing capa...abili...whatever!" He said. The evil god disappeared.

I have recovered the first draft of the final book(s)! It was easy to get into Paolini's system, his username is Strysntcher, and his password is 12345. 12345? That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage! Or an air shield...

Eragon opened the Vault of Souls, and WOOOSH! Out popped Heath Ledger!

"Oh noes!" said Eragon, making scared faces. "It's the Joker!"

"Shut your pie-hole," said Heath. "I had plenty of other good roles."

Eragon raised an eyebrow.

"Well," Heath added lamely, "I had other roles, at least. Why am I even talking to you? Die!"

"Aha!" said Eragon. "But I have the weapon from under the Menoa Tree...Al Gore!"

"Of course!" cried Heath Ledger. "Only Al Gore could be such a tree-hugging psychopath!"

Al Gore burst out from Eragon's pack. He spouted quotes about global warming and Heath Ledger went away lol.

[s]"Leia!"[/s] "Arya!" cried [s]Luke[/s] Eragon, hopping down from his [s]X-Wing Fighter[/s] dragon. "I saved the day by blowing up [s]the Death Star[/s] Galbatorix!"

"Good for you, [s]Luke[/s] Eragon!" said [s]Obi-Wan[/s] [s]Gandalf[/s] Brom. "Now you can be King!"

"I will not bow to this [s]Ranger[/s] peasant from [s]the North[/s] a rural farming community with inexplicably clean butcher shops!" said [s]Denethor[/s] that one guy.

At one time, I started a list of all the similarities between Eragon and other books. It's so stupid. Some of the Runes are the same, there is an "Ardwen Lake", etc. I need to find that list.

Ye, hehe.

I personally loathe the books, they're like reading from a bin... until I come up with something more constructive to say

I love free public records. I found Paolini's home phone number and also his home address. I'll be sending a nice little letter to him! =D Of course... it would probably not be good to reveal such information right here, ya know.

It's called Private Messaging...*wink*

I don't understand why you are all against him. Name 5 specific things that he plagiarized and from what book/movie.

Oh, dear God, he's making another one? As if one wasn't bad enough, and then a sequel besides! *dies* Spare me the pop teen fiction.

( Sorry for not reading the intermediate posts. I just... ugh. Gross. )

BigBadBear wrote:I don't understand why you are all against him. Name 5 specific things that he plagiarized and from what book/movie.

World and races from LOTR (general landscape, the fact that the Elves came from the west in silver ships, rivalry between elves and dwarves, urgals = orcs, medieval setting, etc.)

Language from LOTR (the "ancient language" is clearly just badly re-written Tolkeinian Elvish)

Plot from Star Wars (set in dark times under the shadow of an Evil Empire, princess sends important object away from Evil Emperor's henchman, young farm boy finds it, runs away with wise old man, returns home to find his house in smouldering ruins and his uncle dead, farm boy then sets off with wise old man, who subsequently dies, after which farm boy continues journey with angry rebel, who rescue princess and find Rebel Alliance's secret base, unintentionally leading Evil Empire there, where a huge battle takes place, which the Rebel Alliance wins. And that's just Eragon. Oh, and Evil Emperor's greatest side-kick turns out to be the hero's father)

Characters and names from LOTR and SW (Eragon = Aragorn (similar sounding names) & Luke Skywalker, Murtagh = Han Solo, Arya = Leia & Arwen, Brom = Obi Wan and Gandalf, various place names strikingly similar to those in LOTR, etc, etc.)

The system of magic is strikingly similar to that found in the Earthsea books, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

I should note here that I've never actually accused Paolini of direct plagiarism - just that he's come dangerously close. I know people say 'there is no originality in fantasy any more', which may well be true. But there's a limit - anyone could come up with something more original in plot than what Paolini writes. And originality is only one of a few things why these books are disliked so much - another being that they're just very badly written.

I think perhaps the most dangerous thing that could come out of the Inheritance Trilogy is the idea that (as the boy put it himself "all fantasy is derivative."

It hurts my soul

Rubric

Rubric wrote:I think perhaps the most dangerous thing that could come out of the Inheritance Trilogy is the idea that (as the boy put it himself "all fantasy is derivative."

It hurts my soul

Rubric

*wince*

He SAID that?
Dear heaven, that's like saying, "The world is going to hell, so I'll just plunder old ladies and murder kittens and babies like a demon-child, because being a goody-goody is OBVIOUSLY not change anything now."

Hahaha

I know it's mean to be laughing about a writer's fans, but justread these posts

It's so sad that people can be this excited about his books.

Well, at least Christopher Paolini gives hope to better writers to make it big. If he can make it big, then anyone can.

Also, on his author page it says:

Once the Inheritance cycle is finished, Christopher plans to take a long vacation and ponder which of his many story ideas he will write next.

Hmmm... which story idea do you think he should write next you guys?

Hmmm... which story idea do you think he should write next you guys?

The one where Darry Cotter finds out he's destined to destroy an evil which marked him with a scar on his forehead when he was just a baby...