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EVIL!

1 Jul 07 - 04:09

And there's eight or so copies in the whole system. Not a one checked out. And if you must know, at the bookstore there is no shelf space near Eragon, Eldest, or the "special edition" Eldest.

However, we only have three copies of each Barti book.

"You belong in Gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
set Gryffindors apart."

Apocrypha Afrit

4 Jul 07 - 20:55

I meant your avatar. I recognize you by your teddy bear avatar. But now you have a person eating a cupcake.

.russian ROULETTE Imp

8 Jan 08 - 09:36

Post wrote: If you have never read them... then why the hell were you defending the evil little things?!

omg yay, people who hate eragon! i work at a book shop and one of my co-workers loves it. i thought i was the only one who found it nauseating...

it was so creative of paolini to think of putting an e instead of d in dragon to make the character eragon. i would never have thought of something so ingenious.

and of course there's beloved ariya-sue, whose incomparable beauty and strength and speshulness is so wonderful. in fact she's so wonderful it makes me vomit out of my nose. obviously he based her on some childhood crush, he's so obviously in love with the character... his creativity knows no bounds!

i really wasted money buying the box set. other than that, i have nothing to say because i tend to block traumatic experiences from my head.

Nero Higher Spirit

8 Jan 08 - 12:59

YES! FINALLY! ANOTHER NEWBIE THAT HATES THE CYCLE!
Welcome. Hope you stay. No I'm not insane.

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

8 Jan 08 - 22:19

I hate Arya. :D

But still as I've said before, they were a good read (to me). not the best, of course, but fair.

Nero Higher Spirit

8 Jan 08 - 23:02

The only thing I hate about her is that she's a vegetarian and yet wears leather. You can't blame that she's a Mary-Sue; that is basically was elves are.

Ianna Marid

9 Jan 08 - 21:35

The elves in Lord of the Rings weren't.....

"You belong in Gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
set Gryffindors apart."

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

9 Jan 08 - 21:37

Wait. I just found another hole in Eragon. The elves dont kill or hunt. Like the excuse for Izlandis swan feather dress, is that they were shed feathers. Animals dont shed their hides though! HA!

Ianna Marid

9 Jan 08 - 21:39

Yep.

I don't like the stupid elves.

"You belong in Gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
set Gryffindors apart."

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

9 Jan 08 - 21:47

Krim wrote:
wrote: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.

yeah i was rereading the topic and found this. and yeah, i didnt like eldest so much especially that Oromis part. awkward. Ant they are no where near as good as LOTR and will never be so.

AND PAOLINI WILL NEVER AND I SAY NEVER BE AS GOOD AS DAVID E. EDDINGS! NEVER.

sorry. had to get that out. but still ok books. I give Eragon 7.5/10 and Eldest 5/10. there. I'm done now. :lol: :)

Yeaahh . . .

Ianna Marid

9 Jan 08 - 21:51

You're being kind.

You don't even want to know my scores.

You know he extended the series, right?

"You belong in Gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
set Gryffindors apart."

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

9 Jan 08 - 21:55

*sigh* I know....

Nero Higher Spirit

9 Jan 08 - 22:13

Speaking of weirdness, my friend chooses Harry Potter over Bartimaeus. WHAT THE HELL?! And he didn't even finish the first book. Just read to where he was about to read Bart's escape from the Tower.
My scores are inbetween Vinr and Ianna.

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

9 Jan 08 - 22:14

WHAT?! How can he . . . argh!! *stomps away*

Ianna Marid

10 Jan 08 - 01:13

Well, you all know that my favorite series is Bart, but my favorite book is the last Harry Potter.

Are you going to read the last two books?

"You belong in Gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
set Gryffindors apart."

Nero Higher Spirit

10 Jan 08 - 12:52

Me? I finished them all.

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

10 Jan 08 - 22:02

Me 2! *sigh* I love the Bart Trilogy. :wub: :D

nathanielandbartimaeus Marid

14 Jan 08 - 07:42

Vinr Alfakyn wrote: Wait. I just found another hole in Eragon. The elves dont kill or hunt. Like the excuse for Izlandis swan feather dress, is that they were shed feathers. Animals dont shed their hides though! HA!

Birds do though & a swan is one ( I am talking abt feathers, not hide).
And, I like Arya a lot. And Nasuada, Roran, Angela, Oromis & Murtagh.

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
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<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.

Nero Higher Spirit

14 Jan 08 - 16:30

Arya's an idiot. A vegetarian and wears leather. ????
But otherwise better than people put her at.

Vinr Alfakyn Utukku

15 Jan 08 - 11:56

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
Vinr Alfakyn wrote: Wait. I just found another hole in Eragon. The elves dont kill or hunt. Like the excuse for Izlandis swan feather dress, is that they were shed feathers. Animals dont shed their hides though! HA!
Birds do though & a swan is one ( I am talking abt feathers, not hide).
And, I like Arya a lot. And Nasuada, Roran, Angela, Oromis & Murtagh.

I know. The swan dress is ok, but Arya's leather goes against all that! ^^ So theres a hole. HA!

EVIL!

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