Poll: Eragon: Quality Children's Literature or Shitty Ripoff?
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I agree with u my friend,it's not a children's book and where is the option "i like it"?!WaffleGod said:
When u do a poll or a thread , do say your opinion , but let others state theirs too.
About the Eragon books and movie were decent and its set in a fantasy world that's why i liked it,plain and simple.
If it is a rip-off and childish,then lots of adults -including myself- that love fantasy based books,vgames,movies,RPGs(pen&paper,vgames) are childish,at heart,that's for sure.
Cause fantasy stories,about different worlds and heroes are mostly repeatable with only different names and authors...
For me it is the only example of that pseudo-young adult reading shit I liked. The movie was a giant fart though
It got some kids reading. That's really all that matters when it comes to childrens literature.
Say what you will about that book starting with that consonant, it got people reading.
Say what you will about that book starting with that consonant, it got people reading.
The movie is awful, even with Jeremy Irons. I loved the books. Maybe it's a ripoff, but I enjoyed them.
I voted shitty ripoff, but only because it was the closest to what I wanted to say. I don't really look down upon it for being a ripoff since all fantasy is basically derivative of a mash-up of Tolkein, Western myths in general, some biblical lore, and rabidly bad medieval history. However, Eragon was really really shitty in the sense that the writing was god awful, even for a genre not really known for great literacy. If I remember correctly, the author was quite young when he wrote the novel and you can tell right away, the style is repetitive, the pacing is poor, he lacks a full vocabulary and his characters are paper thin. To put it simply, the author doesn't have very good taste in prose. Being young isn't really an excuse either - Terry Brooks wrote the Sword of Shannara when he was a teenager too, and although that novel wasn't exactly a modern classic at least it was much more readable than Eragon.
The following novels got even worse, what with the migration/pilgrimage led by his brother/cousin/relative (I can't remember, its been a while) being entirely tacked on and not very evocative, as well as an entirely predictable plot twist at the end of the second book (where I stopped reading). It's often not the originality of an idea that makes a book great, its the execution that matters and the author really screwed that up.
Well, I really should have known, the person that recommended Eragon to me also tried to get me to read Twilight. I'm fairly certain I only got around to reading it because we were dating at the time. For the age group Eragon targets there are so many better choices than that pile of rubbish (Pullman's His Dark Materials is by far the best fantasy for that age group).
The following novels got even worse, what with the migration/pilgrimage led by his brother/cousin/relative (I can't remember, its been a while) being entirely tacked on and not very evocative, as well as an entirely predictable plot twist at the end of the second book (where I stopped reading). It's often not the originality of an idea that makes a book great, its the execution that matters and the author really screwed that up.
Well, I really should have known, the person that recommended Eragon to me also tried to get me to read Twilight. I'm fairly certain I only got around to reading it because we were dating at the time. For the age group Eragon targets there are so many better choices than that pile of rubbish (Pullman's His Dark Materials is by far the best fantasy for that age group).
Shitty ripoff. I'm writing a book that I hope to publish at about 15-16, so I hope I don't get caught out on THAT...
Sorry for my bias. Its when i realized that i read 2 books that were a copy paste version of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that i felt kinda like i wasted my life a little...
No less of a rip-off than any other film/novel/video game that has stolen Tolkien's "high fantasy" setting.
For me, the Inheritance series is - like so many adventure novels - a guilty pleasure. Sure, it is not doing anything particularly new and the characters aren't very deep, but who gives a shit when the protagonist is raining hellfire on his enemies from atop his dragon mount before using magic to liquidise their bones?
For me, the Inheritance series is - like so many adventure novels - a guilty pleasure. Sure, it is not doing anything particularly new and the characters aren't very deep, but who gives a shit when the protagonist is raining hellfire on his enemies from atop his dragon mount before using magic to liquidise their bones?
It may be a generic rip-off, but that isn't to say it isn't a good series. I loved the first two (3rd was meh IMO), especially because they were long and had intriguing characters.
Movie was laughably bad, though. Shame Jeremy Irons was in it... *tear*
Movie was laughably bad, though. Shame Jeremy Irons was in it... *tear*
I enjoyed the books, but it was massively reminiscent of Lord of the Rings. Father figure dying in book one? Evil overlord who lives in a tower? Ther are other things I can't remember, but it is seriously ripped off from Lord of the Rings. But then again, what fantasy things aren't these days? Tolkein basically invented the genre.
It is The Fellowship of the Stars in the Wars of the Ring, I mean dragon/boy...
Yes, I enjoyed the books, and I will read the last one, but it was obviously a ripoff of Star Wars and LotR. Especially evident in books 2 and 3 with the "songs" and "poetry"
Not bad though, just not great.
Yes, I enjoyed the books, and I will read the last one, but it was obviously a ripoff of Star Wars and LotR. Especially evident in books 2 and 3 with the "songs" and "poetry"
Not bad though, just not great.
It's filled with purple prose, and looks like something from 10th Grade English. Details are terribly misused. As in, there are far too many chapters detailing Eragon's training in Elf-Land (Christopher Paolini has a serious case of long-book syndrome) and then you have characters with literally no traits to them, like Arya who I've mentioned is a serious Mary Sue.EcoEclipse said:
Show me a fantasy book that isn't heavily based on the same structure as a million other fantasy books and I'll give you a medal.
They get better as they go. The first one essentially follows the plot of Star Wars, but as the author gets older and more experienced, his writing improves and the series seems to mature. Too bad the movie was a facepalm-inducing trainwreck of bad fantasy cliches that had so very little to do with the actual story.
No option is right for me. I'm certainly not a child but I still enjoy Eragon, and personally can't wait for the final book to come out.
And I haven't noticed anything ripped-off about it. Most of the plot seems fairly original to me. The only thing that's ever really been done the same is the whole dragons/dwarves/elves/magic fantasy thing. And ever since Tolkien that's been emulated in a lot of works.
So it's a good story, but it's not just for children.
And I haven't noticed anything ripped-off about it. Most of the plot seems fairly original to me. The only thing that's ever really been done the same is the whole dragons/dwarves/elves/magic fantasy thing. And ever since Tolkien that's been emulated in a lot of works.
So it's a good story, but it's not just for children.
