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Have you read any of the Harry Potter books?
I browsed through a couple. Looks like a good read.
Generally I have found they are
If so which ones?
Pick one. Any one.
I select as unpublished book seven because I eagerly await its publication
Do you like PIE?
Very much so. I also like pi, but it doesn't come in apple or pecan.
No but it does come in a stunning number of fractional and decimal approrximations...
Have you read Eragon or Eldest?
Haven't read Eldest but what I did read of Eragon reminded me that there is a reason a child shouldn't publish a book, especially when he has no talent. Even my girlfriend agreed. He wrote like he was writing a mud... not bad, just not original. Like a 3 out of 10 kind of thing.
Cannot comment I have the book but have not yet read it... However I do not know that its fair to say he cannot write given the books popularity some clearly disagree and not just young persons. Also various other young persons have been excellent writers... if one likes Angsty Gothic Vamp fiction I am current reading Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and she started at a similar age and is apparently quite well regarded critically
Ok I have finished the book now. I loved the book it was well written compelling and while it had elements of MANY different previous entries it had a life all its own...... The fact that you state "What I did read of Eragon" tells me you are not even giving full shrift....
I didn't give it full shrift because I was tired of reading it, the writing is reminiscent of a mud.
It has a life of its own, because of the fact that a kid wrote it.
I totally disagree with the fact the idea that he writes poorly. Most people that express this opinion from what I have seen are not authors either. Many people want to critcize his syle for being similar to this that and the other thing...and for lacking originality.... if it were not within genre it would be disinteresting to those who are fans of the genre...
The fanfare that this caused is not unlike the fanfare raised by children who know the middle names of all the US Presidents... or a child "genius" who can add in his head. It's not like he was discovered on his own... he had ties with a publishing company because of a family. The work that I published when I was a kid seemed amazing to everyone else... now when I pick up and read it... I personally feel that not only were those pieces my worst yet, they probably should never have been read by anyone.
I assure you that MY attraction has no basis in Mr. Paolini's age. Mr. Paolini is good at prose. He may borrow ideas but he does not borrow words. He WRITES well. The assertion he writes as mud is caustic and unfounded
I know that it's because my eyes have become a bit more "mature" but that's because I have actually experienced some real things. That's perhaps why I don't read much fantasy anymore. You want writing, read some Phillip K. Dick or pick up a copy of "Naked Lunch" or even "Another Roadside Attraction", one of my childhood reads that I still remember.
Or my favorite fantasy writer, Michael Moorcock. Now that guy had talent. He was discovered by a publishing company and He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at only sixteen, later moving on to edit Sexton Blake Library.
I am quite familiar with Phillip K. Dick and with Moorcock (Though I loathe his work on Tarzan and tend to Loathe Tarzan period.) They are categorically different genres. I have never claimed Paolini is a genius only that I liked his writing and the story
Eragon, The Inheritance Trilogy, has a young author. Eragon & Eldest might be okay, even good writing but there are better books with much more elaborate plots.
Elaborate? So..... Elaborate is not equal to better. I find Tolkien unreadably dry because of his excessive detail orientation.
There are times where he takes Lord of the Rings and EarthSea Trilogy (Ursula LeGuin, excellent writer but the book is kind of childish!) and cuts them up and mixes them together. Poulini nearly takes word for word from the way magic works in EarthSea. Here is the beef:
From The Alan Review, Spring 1996. Jan M. Griffin:
Ged learns much and proves to have great power. As all of the students do, Ged travels to the Master Namer where he lives for a year learning the names of everything. Though bored, Ged knows the importance of learning the names, the true names of everything. For when one has knowledge of the true name, the name of making of a person or an object, he has power over it.
While I was not attacking him, I was attacking his originality and his composition. Those, to me, make a good book. He has to pull from other sources because that is all he's read. I know for a fact, his books will become excellent reads. But for now at least in my eyes, he hasn't figured out what to write.
The similarities between Ged and Eragon as well as between the Namer and Brom seem a big stretch to me.. and I love EarthSea.... Yes magic works similarly... There are limits. Nothing is NEW under the sun
(imitating Majin Buu)Do you like chocolate?!?
mmmmm... diabetes. i am banned from all Hershey's factories.
Sucks to be you....
OH WAIT! THOSE WERE FOR LOREMASTER? SORRY!
Loremaster, do you think underwear should be incorporated into the game?
I see no benefit in that but whatever floats your boat...
< Message edited by falerin -- 3/26/2006 23:23:14 >
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