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EVIL!
Topic Started: Jul 30 2006, 07:16 AM (28,884 Views)
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rubberchickenben
Aug 3 2006, 05:28 AM
Beware Skulblaka, people here bite... ;)

DOWN WITH ERAGON!!!
DOWN WITH PAOLINI!!!
DOWN WITH THE GODDAM PHILOSOPHYING!
Shame of the Super Son
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Precisely who I was talking about... ;)
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Skulblaka
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:D Thanks for the warnings! ! will keep them in mind!
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Evil has tainted your mind. You must excorcised.
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rubberchickenben
Aug 2 2006, 03:58 PM
Beware Skulblaka, people here bite... ;)

I wanted to apoligize if I offended anyone! I like the Inheritance trilogy and Lord of the rings equally well!
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Aug 5 2006, 04:24 AM
Evil has tainted your mind. You must excorcised.

Oh, stop scaring the newbies you nutter.
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Aug 5 2006, 03:56 PM
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Yesterday, 04:24 AM
Evil has tainted your mind. You must excorcised.

Oh, stop scaring the newbies you nutter.

Thanks Sentynel :D
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I wanted to apoligize if I offended anyone! I like the Inheritance trilogy and Lord of the rings equally well!


...You thought the Inheritance Trilogy is anywhere near Lord of the Rings? Tell me, have you read any books in your life? Seriously, I'm not trying to flame.

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? The characters are archetypes. The entire plot is stolen. It has horrible wording, bad descriptions, excessive overwording, laughable villains. He uses 300 adverbs in the first book. Galbatorix not being present doesn't make sense. It's twice as long as it should be. He describe Oromis has a hairless groin. He spent over twenty words describing Oromis impossibly dissecting a blueberry one segment at a time...do you have any idea how ridiculous that is? He was published by his parents. Knopf saw him as a marketing scheme. He wasn't really fifteen when he wrote it. He's 22 now. He doesn't listen to criticism. He is smug. Eldest was the worst book of the year according to Entertainment Weekly. He thinks characters are born of necessity. His books are loaded with implied sex yet is marketed as a kids book. The characters are bland. Book 2 was one chunk of worthless purple prose. Arya is a vegetarian that wears leather. Her mother sheds a SINGLE TEAR after hearing her daughter, the princess of the elves, was savagely beaten and implied that she was raped but made the guards impotent.

Is there one possible reason you like this other than you really don't know what good literature is? Just curious.

Do you think that Paolini is better than Tolkien? Tolkien, a master of the craft, the father of the fantasy epic...

Tell me, do you think Paolini is better than:

Neil Gaiman
Kurt Vonnegut
Poe
Lovecraft
H.G. FRIGGIN' WELLS
Dickens
George R. R. Martin (READ HIM, NOT PAOLINI)
David Eddings (the father of Paolini's magic system, along with
Ursula Le Guin)
Anne McCafferey
George Orwell
Salinger

Paolini is an airport novelist, like Dan Brown, who made it big because he was 'fifteen' when he was eighteen.
Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Stroud/Gladstone

The three ships. Kinda like the Mayflower and all those.
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This is just a wild guess here, but I'm thinking that Krim is not terribly fond of the Inheritance trilogy.
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BURN KILL DESTROY. BURN KILL DESTROY.
Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Stroud/Gladstone

The three ships. Kinda like the Mayflower and all those.
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Krim
Aug 7 2006, 04:50 PM
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I wanted to apoligize if I offended anyone! I like the Inheritance trilogy and Lord of the rings equally well!


...You thought the Inheritance Trilogy is anywhere near Lord of the Rings? Tell me, have you read any books in your life? Seriously, I'm not trying to flame.

HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? The characters are archetypes. The entire plot is stolen. It has horrible wording, bad descriptions, excessive overwording, laughable villains. He uses 300 adverbs in the first book. Galbatorix not being present doesn't make sense. It's twice as long as it should be. He describe Oromis has a hairless groin. He spent over twenty words describing Oromis impossibly dissecting a blueberry one segment at a time...do you have any idea how ridiculous that is? He was published by his parents. Knopf saw him as a marketing scheme. He wasn't really fifteen when he wrote it. He's 22 now. He doesn't listen to criticism. He is smug. Eldest was the worst book of the year according to Entertainment Weekly. He thinks characters are born of necessity. His books are loaded with implied sex yet is marketed as a kids book. The characters are bland. Book 2 was one chunk of worthless purple prose. Arya is a vegetarian that wears leather. Her mother sheds a SINGLE TEAR after hearing her daughter, the princess of the elves, was savagely beaten and implied that she was raped but made the guards impotent.

Is there one possible reason you like this other than you really don't know what good literature is? Just curious.

Do you think that Paolini is better than Tolkien? Tolkien, a master of the craft, the father of the fantasy epic...

Tell me, do you think Paolini is better than:

Neil Gaiman
Kurt Vonnegut
Poe
Lovecraft
H.G. FRIGGIN' WELLS
Dickens
George R. R. Martin (READ HIM, NOT PAOLINI)
David Eddings (the father of Paolini's magic system, along with
Ursula Le Guin)
Anne McCafferey
George Orwell
Salinger

Paolini is an airport novelist, like Dan Brown, who made it big because he was 'fifteen' when he was eighteen.

Actually, i have never read the Lord Of The Rings. I have only seen the movies. Also, I do not excel in literature. My best subject is math. Yes he did copy a lot of the book From lotr. But i don't care. I liked the books! we are all entitled to our own opinions. Thanks for sharing yours.

And to Answer your cuoriosity, I find them entertaining. They are not only Action and fantasy, they also show the romantic battle that everyone endures at one point or another.

ALso, I have never heard of one of those authors so i can't answer you question!

Thanks i enjoyed this conversation! :D
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...Haven't heard...of...

DICKENS?

OR POE?

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT REINVENTED LITERATURE?

So uh, you liked it because it was enjoyable...and make it your name...when...just...nevermind. You're entitled to your own opinion, but that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to prove it wrong.

- sighs. - Well, you're just one of the other ten thousand fans that like Paolini because they haven't read anything else.
Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Stroud/Gladstone

The three ships. Kinda like the Mayflower and all those.
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Krim
Aug 8 2006, 01:51 PM
...Haven't heard...of...

DICKENS?

OR POE?

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT REINVENTED LITERATURE?

So uh, you liked it because it was enjoyable...and make it your name...when...just...nevermind. You're entitled to your own opinion, but that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to prove it wrong.

- sighs. - Well, you're just one of the other ten thousand fans that like Paolini because they haven't read anything else.

Well yeah i have heard of those two. I must have skipped over them when i read your post the other day. And the never mind thing, if you really didn't want me to know you wouldn't have put that. So just say what you where thinking. And i have read other books, just nothing that would interest you!
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I mean, there is no point arguing with someone that likes a book, despite being a Frankenstein's monster of other much better fantasy books, poorly written...Eragon has 300 adverbs leading up to chapter 14. Many things make no sense. Plot holes galore.

So what's the point of saying anything to someone who does not understand just how bad the book is?


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Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Poe
Lovecraft - Cthulhu mythos
H.G. FRIGGIN' WELLS - War of the Worlds, Time Machine
Dickens
George R. R. Martin- A Song Of Ice and Fire (READ HIM, NOT PAOLINI)
David Eddings- Belgariad(the father of Paolini's magic system, along with
Ursula Le Guin)- Earthsea
Anne McCafferey- Dragonriders of Pern
George Orwell- 1984, Animal Farm
Salinger- Catcher in the Rye
Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Gladstone/Sentynel/Krim/Stroud/Gladstone

The three ships. Kinda like the Mayflower and all those.
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Uh, Krim? I dislike the Inheritance trilogy very much but don't you think that you're being awfully disrespectful to Skulblaka? S/he's allowed to like whatever s/he wants, just like we're allowed to dislike whatever we want.
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