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Inheritance
Oh. My. Gosh....
Oh. My. Gosh. I can die now. I was up last night (or more accurately, this morning,) at 1:30 am reading it on my iPad. The only word for it is beautiful.
There's nothing more to say. It was so amazing and beautiful and perfect. Eragon was good, Eldest was better, and Brisingr was the best, and Inheritance was perfect.
It was amazing.
submitted by SC, age gone
(November 10, 2011 - 6:55 pm)
(November 10, 2011 - 6:55 pm)
*mentally adds series to list of books to read*
(November 10, 2011 - 7:55 pm)
And Paolini is going to write another series or book set in Alagaesia, but not for a while! I don't care! New series! Angela: cheep cheep!!!
(November 12, 2011 - 2:56 pm)
As far as I'm concerned, Eragon was mediocre, Eldest was bad, and Brisingr was horrible. I haven't yet read Inheritance.
My least favourite character was Marty Stu. I mean Eragon. And of course I hated Gandalf Kenobi, Headmaster of Hogwarts. No, wait, that's not his name... Albus Obi-Wan Greyhame? Oh, Brom, that's it! I wanted to shoot all of them! With guns!
...I'm done now.
No, wait, I'll add: CP never had an original thought in his life. Egotistical chap, he is.
(November 12, 2011 - 4:02 pm)
I beg to differ.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Brom died halfway through Eragon. You do realize that? I think Gandalf died, not sure, Dumbledore died, Obi-Wan Kenobi died, but at least halfway through their respective series. Paolini killed off Brom halfway through the first book. And maybe because I read the Fellowship of the Ring and it was so bloody boring that I didn't read anything after that, but I saw the Inheritance cycle very, very differently. Yes, Paolini did take a lot of ideas from other authors. BUT, I don't care. Yes, the elves were ridiculously perfect and superior, but I got a lot of humanity from that book. Roran had the right ideas about death and killing people. And how could you shoot Angela? She was the best character. Honestly, I didn't care much about Eragon. He didn't have enough emotions. But Roran, Nasuada, Elva, and others made the series more than worthwhile.
Original is overrated. The human mind can imagine a finite number of things.
Really? Comparing it to Star Wars?
(November 12, 2011 - 4:45 pm)
Eragon was pretty good... but Eragon himself was a really bad character. I enjoyed the book enough, though. However, when I got to Eldest, I just COULD NOT get past the first few chapters or so. It was so boring! Nothing but bloody battle aftermath and Eragon's love life. Ugh.
Also, ZNZ has a completely valid point. Eragon is just Frodo Baggins, Aragorn, and Luke Skywalker shoved into a blender and put back together again. Even the Inheritance Wiki lists no fewer than four books/movies comparing Eragon to other characters, including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter. Really! Look it up yourself if you don't believe me!
(November 12, 2011 - 8:53 pm)
Gandalf.... Kenobi....Dumbledore....... WHA?????????? Is that really a character in Eragon??????
I really should read those books.
@ Alexandra
I felt that way when I read Redwall. It was good, but kind of like A COMPLETE COPY OF HARRY POTTER. Featuring mice rather than humans.
(November 13, 2011 - 10:24 am)
Except that Redwall came first.
(November 13, 2011 - 5:10 pm)
I'd totally want to read this, since I liked the first three, but I think that he could have stuck it all into two books, omitting most of the war and the love affiar with the elf.
(November 13, 2011 - 4:51 pm)
My problem with Eragon is the lack of good morals. I noticed some strong agnostic themes in Eldest, and I don't like Roran/Katrina's relationship.
I also noticed that there is no evil on the books. From the king being just insane, to the orc monsters being only like humans, to the evil dark things just being humans' natural predators. They totally took out the idea of good vs. evil, and while I can deal with disagreeing with certain things in books, if you take out good vs. evil, you just basically took out the whole reason I read books in the first place.
Also Eragon/Arya was the worst romance ever. (But does anyone notice some similarity in the names Aragorn/Arwen? And one's a human, one's an elf, they have mortal/immortal difficulties... totally a LoTR knockoff.)
(November 13, 2011 - 5:18 pm)
@ Emily L.
Um, yeah, I didn't think of that. But what I meant that is that a lot of books reaaally resemble each other.
I'm starting to have second thoughts about reading these books.
Eragon and Aragorn sound so alike that when I mentioned Aragorn, my friend thought I meant Eragon and we got into a big argument about how to pronounce Eragon's name. While I thought that she thought that she thought Aragorn's name was Aragon.
(November 13, 2011 - 7:11 pm)
Atheism, more properly. Beautiful vegetarian perfect atheist elves. Can't Argue With Elves. Though given the whole dwarven gods deal... well, who knows what CP is going for. I'm not entirely sure even CP knows.
It's not the bad morals that bother me, per se, so much as it is the moral dissonance. Like - Galby is evil for using the whole true name thing, but Eragon can use it without so much as a guilty twinge, because he is Good. Also, genocide. It's not so much that he does bad things so much as it is that it's all portrayed as entirely good - we don't even really get so much as a What The [Heck] Hero moment. I love deserved and well-done WTHH moments; they make me want to cheer.
What do you mean, of course there's good vs evil! There's the evil terrorists fighting the good if ineffectual government! I thought that was the plot! I hope Galby gets it together enough in Inheritance to stamp them out, because I like him but gosh he's useless. But if he steps up his game in the last book he'll be awesome.
Trope: Rousseau Was Right. (HAHAHAHAHA I HAVE NO SCRUPLES. AFTER ALL I JUST DESTROYED YOUR LIFE.)
Of course it's a Tolkien knock-off. Like I said - kid's never had an original thought in his life. Everything good in his books comes from Tolkien.
Just like all fantasy, really. </cynicism>
(November 13, 2011 - 8:15 pm)
I used to love the books. Then I looked at Eragon again and thought it was mediocre. I haven't relooked at the rest of the books, but I don't remember liking them as much as the first even to begin with. Angela and Safira are the only characters I still like, and the latter is borderline. But I agree about the moral dissonance especially. I don't mind books with evil or agathokakological main characters (although I used to), but it's important to me that the author acknowledges them as such. That's really not the case here.
Dwarf gods? I don't remember those, but yes, that's also dissonant. I don't mind atheism or dwarf gods being promoted, but both is rather illogical unless it's quite clear that the latter are presented metaphorically, which I doubt is the case.
(November 15, 2011 - 10:52 pm)
LOL one of my friends read the series and she said that the last book disappointed her (she read it in a day or two) but she really doesn't read it, she just sorta skips along flipping from page to page stopping at the "intresting parts" soo I dont really listen to her when she talks about books. Anyway I was thinking about reading the books but I'm not sure I really want to, same with the Percy series. lol. Anyway I thought that it was interesting that he made up a language... my librarian at school told us all about the series and the author!
(November 17, 2011 - 6:12 pm)