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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:16 am
Well I decided to duck into my old email account and filter for any stray mail this morning, after I deleted all the accumulated junk I found two things of interest, a letter from an old friend, and a Newsletter from "Alagaesia" In my experience as a member of that newsletter these things have never said anything worth while but I was hoping it would tell us about the long awaited book III release of the Inheritance Trilogy. In the very least I wanted to know what the doggone name was. Turns out, the Inheritance Trilogy is over Quote: It was announced today that the Inheritance Trilogy is the Inheritance Trilogy no more - a forth, full-length novel has been added to the Trilogy, expanding Eragon and Saphira's adventures.
"I plotted out the Inheritance series as a trilogy nine years ago, when I was fifteen. At that time, I never imagined I’d write all three books, much less that they would be published" said Paolini. "When I finally delved into Book Three, it soon became obvious that the remainder of the story was far too big to fit in one volume. Having spent so long thinking about the series as a trilogy, it was difficult for me to realize that, in order to be true to my characters and to address all of the plot points and unanswered questions Eragon and Eldest raised, I needed to split the end of the series into two books."
In addition to the announcement of a fourth book in the series, the release date has been announced for the third book, which still remains un-named: September 23, 2008.
Keep checking back on Shur'tugal as we update with even more information regarding Book 3, Book 4, and more! Also, be sure to check back on Shur'tugal and Alagaesia at 5 PM EST for a video announcement from Christopher Paolini! Thats the excerpt I got from Shurtugal.com. Personally, I am pissed. I cant beleive that after all of this, we have to wait several more months just to get book 3. I was never a rabid fan of this series. His were just another series of books to read because they were a fantasy series. I was really skeptical of book 3 because of all the things that needed to be concluded and all the ends that he left hanging, so I'm fine with the fact that he chose to make it 4 books, just so long as he makes those books good. But the fact that he's always saying (via newsletter) that he's hard at work and that the book is coming along nicely stuff like that, I dont see why we cant have Book 3 in December 2007 and book 4 in September of 2008? My opinion of these books based on many reasons has always been a pretty low "C" so to speak? What do you guys say?
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:28 pm
I almost leapt for joy at the words "The Inheritance Trilogy is no more!" thinking, YES! Paolini's reign of terror and poorly written dragon-based fantasy literature is finally at an end! But alas, it was too good to be true.
Really, I loathe Paolini's writing. It's boring and bland, predictable, was turned into a movie that sucked as much as the books, and really, is just tacky. Eragon? Can you say Dragon with an E? (I actyually saw him in a ridiculous commentary on why he named his protagonist that. Turns out "Era" had something to do with it. Who would have guessed?) Saphira? Now that's just plain simple. Not even spelled correctly. I mean, if it had some deeper meaning, like Hawthorne's "Pearl" or the countless "Ruby"s of literature, that would be one thing. This simply goes beyond the boundary of good taste.
What is the plot about? Why, a simpleton who finds a dragon's egg, hatches it, bonds with her and inherits magical powers, happens to have a knowledgable old man to apprentice under in his tiny village, and seeks to save the world. Just once I would like to see a "good" dragon get pissed and eat a villager. Just once.
If this weren't bad enough, it continues for two--wait, now three--more tomes of poor writing. If the dark ages come again, I am more than willing to blame it on George Bush, radical religious factions, the sentiments of both communist and capitalist parties, lobbying gas tycoons, and writers like Paolini. He keeps writing like there isn't enough hardship in the world. Oedipus stabbed his eyes out after he found out his relationship to his mother (whoops), and I feel obligated to consider the same treatment when confronted with Paolini's "work".
The work's sole redeeming quality is its readability, but that makes it only more upsetting, because so many good books are readable, and far more charming. Its popularity among the youth today only makes it more notorious for older readers.
In the end, it's not enough to redeem it. One giant red F with a long row of minuses for Mr. Paolini.
And that's that.
~Leavaros
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:44 am
Oh my lovely Varos, your harsh criticisms of the work I loathe ever so much has brightened my sickening and dreary day. I too danced, albeit pathetically so, when I spied upon this guild's hallowed forum the words:The Inheritance Trilogy is no more. It was as if I had discovered Christ, a beaming ray of golden light from the heavens and welcomed him as the Saviour, only to realize that the shiny ray of golden light was merely the bronzed reflection of a falling anvil soon to crush my entirety.
I tried reading the b*****d child of Paolini, pardon my discord. But every chapter seemed to be the same as the last, with Eragon's arrogance growing with every turn of the page I wondered: who could possibly read such a thing? Who could be aptly simple enough to be able to willingly digest such trite and think more of it than I do of my own waste? Apparently many do, apparently big name film industries do, apparently the writer himself does not see his own misgivings. I wonder if the sir responsible for this has ever read another fantasy novel, compared his writing to it and seen there heresy and raunch of his words.
Apparently, another... book, must be written.
It is a sad day this day we are borne the knowledge of another gruesome addition to what is doubly labeled, bad fiction.
Justin
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:50 pm
whee Ooooooh!!! Yes!! Finally the third book is coming out soon! I was wondering when they were planning to release it.....and there's a fourth one too?!
I'm not really pissed at everybody else's criticism on the trilogy.... neutral that's your opinion that you hate it....no offense. I really could care less who hates the series or not.
But in my opinion, its ok.....but not as great as Rowling's. I have to admit that it's a bit of a challenge to read.....and its tedious, but as a fantasy freak that I am, I'll read anything that has magic, adventure, and especially dragons!! WOOT!!!
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:41 pm
Wow...that's the first time in a long time I've heard "as great as Rowling's" used as a good thing....
-LD
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:54 pm
Well at last it's ending. Took him enough time. I don't personally care for it myself. I read the first one and loved it but the second book was errr. The movie pretty much ruined the series, and I "hear" they are redoing the movie. I just want to read the last book(s) just to see how it ends. It reminds me a little to much of Anne McCaffery's Dragon Riders of Pern series from what I've read of it anyway which isn't much. So that there brings it down to a "D" in my opinion.
~Buwie
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:14 am
or perhaps in S L Y T H E R I N ////////////
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//////////you'll make your R E A L friends
I read the books, but they aren't anything close to a favorite of mine - I treat them like light reads that I just sort of amuse myself when there isn't much else to do, and it gives me my draconic fill when I don't feel like whipping out something like Temeraire or Pern. I mean, I find it to be a bit too cliche, if I ever use dragons, I avoid making them a main plot point - its just like "oh yeah, and we have dragons, because it made for the easiest method of transportation" but they hold very little importance to the plot [same with vamps or elves]. However, I suppose I would like to read book 3, but I don't WANT a fourth book - I love things that are trilogies.
But whatever, I think it has potential to work - maybe he'll even improve his writing style by the time the fourth one is done with. Even over a year mine has improved immensely, so I don't see why his couldn't be great by the end of the series.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:54 pm
the books were certainly not the best ever written, but if you take into account the writers age when he started, they are still pretty good... i just can't believe they are actually making a fourth book!! it was supposed to be a trilogy... but anywho, i really don't know what the big deal was about with the books
reading the earlier posts by all my new book-crazy buddies, i started to laugh hysterically. not only were you all using amazing vocab in dissing this series and author, but justin even used some very literate metaphors... no one would ever guess that we read and write at all here... nope never us xp
~Aril
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:47 pm
i have to agree with aril and snow silence but as a fan of the series i think that if his writing just gets better then he will just make more books or make another about alagaesia and still i believe the series deserves a (C) and that the only way to make it better is that if paolini changes all the extra pages of use less words to something more productive and less discombobulating then put more into the plot and as for the third book and fourth they better be so much more enticing and grasping than just of a simple plot with almost nothing but detail and no twist. what is writing without twists?
and leon great metaphor mind if i used it in the book i am writing? such an exuberant saying.
Hljordhr Vinr Alfakyn, Jones or Jonas, writer of wonders
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:32 pm
I see a lot of hatred to this series from some of us. I love the book. I do see many similarities to many of other series I have read by other authors. But, I do see that in many authors. I find that for one so young this is a great start. In the years to come, I believe he will become a wonderful author.
As for Saphira, it is spelled correctly as long as that was how he wanted spelled. My name is Brian, but I can't go up to someone with their name spelled Brion, Bryan, Bryon, etc. and say, "Hey, your name is spelled incorrectly."
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:58 pm
Haha, go ahead Alfakyn, my metaphors are yours to command. Well, just that one I suppose.
I agree with you Guardian that names should go without check, unless of course the names are utterly unpronounceable. As it stands, to me anyway, however Poalini spells Saphira, it really doesn't matter.
As for the hatred, some of us are too widely read to simply accept Eragon as a decent, or at all, a piece of fiction. Or it is simply a preference for us that a writer have a quality of writing that is above that of self-promoting teenager. Now granted, a great many writers do in fact create characters that they can't help but gush over in their stories and do nothing but open doors for their characters.
I'm not saying there is something wrong with that, because a story would be greatly boring if all a character did was struggle and struggle and struggle to no avail until finally, somehow his quest was completed with 17 broken bones, a disfigured nose and several impregnated half-wives. The only thing that serves to do is humanize the character to a very uncomfortable level, our hero must triumph, make it look easy and out wit the evil of the world they're put in.
Eragon, really, does none of that, not to me anyway. I just don't see him as a valid hero, and really I hate to say it, but I have too much respect for dragons to see them bend to the will, even if at times it is reluctantly, of a snooty, overly moralized kid with a chip on his shoulder.
Who knows, maybe I'm not used to the archetype Paolini uses. Still, I think his writing is crap, his characters are poorly developed and lack character evolution of any real quality that I've to recognize in good writing.
the Lion
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:21 pm
On the Saphira note, I just thought it was tacky. If I thought it held any real literary merit, I wouldn't mind having a jewel's name that simply identifies the dragon's actual color warped into a name. But it doesn't, and similarly, most of Paolini's work hardly scratches the surface. I think that's probably what bothers me most--everything in Paolini's work feels two-dimensional and shallow. What's worse is that for many people, this lack of depth has become an accepted stereotype for the fantasy genre, in the same way that it had become many years ago with romance, which any dedicated reader knows is not the case.
On a brief tangent, has anyone noticed how dragon-smuts and vampire-smuts have seemingly emerged out of nowhere with the rise of authors Meyer and Paolini, just as magic-smuts came with Rowling? I use the word "smut" because these people only read these books to get their "fill-in-the-blank fix". I think it's interesting the trash people will read if it has, say, elves in it.
You want good fantasy? Read anything by Robin Hobb--you won't be able to go back to Mr. Paolini.
Love and Vale,
~Leavaros Dapple
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:16 pm
Mr.Paolini's work may not be THE BEST ever, but I personally loved the book. Lion, Eragon may not be a "valid hero" but does the main character of the "Good Guys" always have to be a hero? Yes, he may be portrayed as a hero, but he doesn't need to litterally be a hero.
-- Adge
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:39 pm
Akzez, that wasn't the point I was making at all. Eragon doesn't even play well as a secondary character to the wizened old Obi-Wan Kenobi character since he's dafter than wood and more arrogant than even me. I was simply stating that he wasn't a good character, I hardly consider him a hero as his whole basis to set off on adventure is purely based off of revenge and as anyone who has ever read fiction before, knows that revenge is an evil trait.
Really, I wonder how the book would read without Eragon in it, with the exception that Saphira's egg still hatches.
the Lion
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:46 pm
All the bad traits of Eragon are what makes the story. Those form the inner conflicts.
If the book didn't have Eragon in it, it would have another just as displeasurable (to you). Unless the book was written by a different author.
--Adge
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