Inheritance Cycle

[DrWilhelm]

Oh, and Eragon/Aragorn. Huh.

Actually, Eragon is just a single letter shift from "dragon." Still doesn't make much of a case for originality, but at least it's one thing that wasn't ripping off something else.

I believe that Panini is now claiming that Eragon means "Era gone by". Talk about being pretentious.

 

[Ben Hussong]

I started this thread so people could talk about the books, not hate on them and there author. Also, Star Wars got most, if not all, of its story from the space fascination of the time. LOTR got most of itself from Lore. EDIT: Also, so they could recommend books of similar ilk, suck as the Xanth series of novels.

Actually, A new hope was inspired by " The hidden fortress" directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune. Watch it sometime, the comparisons are evident. Also if you start a thread about Eragon, the people who dislike it * there are a lot of us* will show up to voice their complaints and discuss them with eachother and anyone else, this is the internet.

 

[Berethond]

I like it until about halfway through the third book. Then, one day while I was reading it, I looked up at just thought, Wow, this is SO RACIST. I can't stand the series ever since then.

 

[InnerRebellion]

They were okay when I was in 6th grade, but I don't really like them much anymore. I've moved on to reading bigger and more interesting books, and, being a writer myself, spent lonely nights writing my own story.

By the by, can someone point me to a good Steampunk fantasy series/book? My story involves Steampunk and Cyberpunk and regular fantasy, and I'd just like to see how well other authors implemented Steampunk.

Also, if you get curious as to the whole Steampunk+Cyberpunk thing, shoot me a PM/quote me and I'll explain.

 

[Tucker154]

Owner of the entire hardcover collection here. I haven't read them in a few years, but I have fond memories from my Senior year of High School reading them. It's probably the most mature fantasy based series revolving around dragons I can recommend right now.

I also didn't mind how much the movie didn't follow the book, actually. It was still fun to put a voice to Saphira for once.

[small]I eagerly anticipate the release of the final chapter to the story. I want to find out what happens next!![/small]

Same. I actualy really enjoy them,so nothing else much to say about them. Oh,and absoletly hated the movie,though I also liked having a voice for Saphira in my head for her.

 

[Giantpanda602]

I remember reading Brisingr in 7th grade...I'm now a freshman. Usually, authors begin writing their next book before the one they just finished comes out. It shouldn't take 2+ years for it to be released.

It took two years from Eragon to Eldest.
It took three years from Eldest to Brisingr.
It will have been three years from Brisingr to Inheritance.

I'd say that thats fairly consistant.

Yea, and the US education system is consistently terrible.

 

[DrWilhelm]

They were okay when I was in 6th grade, but I don't really like them much anymore. I've moved on to reading bigger and more interesting books, and, being a writer myself, spent lonely nights writing my own story.

By the by, can someone point me to a good Steampunk fantasy series/book? My story involves Steampunk and Cyberpunk and regular fantasy, and I'd just like to see how well other authors implemented Steampunk.

Also, if you get curious as to the whole Steampunk+Cyberpunk thing, shoot me a PM/quote me and I'll explain.

Theres a Scott Westerfeld series that's got elements of Steampunk. Starts with a book called Leviathan. I think that China Meiville's Perdido Street Station is Steampunky, though I have yet to read it. I've got a pile of about 15 books I own but haven't yet read, and that pile keeps growing bigger. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head aside from Girl Genius, which is a webcomic so maybe not quite what you're looking for. My own reading has a deplorable lack of steampunk, and I wish to rectify that as well. Cyberpunk too. The only cyberpunk I've read (ignoring films) is Snow Crash, which is awesome but I've had to put my reading of it on hold thanks to cursed essay deadlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdido_Street_Station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_%28Westerfeld_novel%29

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104 (Link goes to the first page of the comic)

 

[SpAc3man]

Boy lives with uncle in the middle of the Empire and is told by a mysterious old man that he has magic powers who would also teach him to fight with the "Varden" against the Empire and their evil leader.

Yeah, Star Wars was alright.

Don't forget the special coloured swords and the trip to see the super powerful old master of the magic warriors for extra special training and the shocking revelation about

Spoiler

Eragon's father (yea it did end up being false but still counts)

OT: I still love the series. I love Star Wars and LotR and an awesome merge of these things makes me happy.

Also the way that magic is cast and controlled in the Inheritance world reminds me of programming quite a bit.

 

[Absolute Edge]

They were okay when I was in 6th grade, but I don't really like them much anymore. I've moved on to reading bigger and more interesting books, and, being a writer myself, spent lonely nights writing my own story.

By the by, can someone point me to a good Steampunk fantasy series/book? My story involves Steampunk and Cyberpunk and regular fantasy, and I'd just like to see how well other authors implemented Steampunk.

Also, if you get curious as to the whole Steampunk+Cyberpunk thing, shoot me a PM/quote me and I'll explain.

More along the lines of science fiction, but I quite enjoyed Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds.

 

[Gxas]

I remember reading Brisingr in 7th grade...I'm now a freshman. Usually, authors begin writing their next book before the one they just finished comes out. It shouldn't take 2+ years for it to be released.

It took two years from Eragon to Eldest.
It took three years from Eldest to Brisingr.
It will have been three years from Brisingr to Inheritance.

I'd say that thats fairly consistant.

Yea, and the US education system is consistently terrible.

I don't quite see how that relates at all to this scenario.

If you are trying to attack me for being stupid because I'm American, you really need to look deeper for something that will actually affect me. There really is no other option as to what you could be saying this for though. I'm very confused.

 

[DrWilhelm]

I just finished Brisingr last night actually, and I have heard all the people talk about ripoff's and such, but I find Inheritance Cycle to be very interesting. I get lost into the world and lore, before I try to deciefer the similarities of this book towards another book. I just enjoy a book, and as long as it has great characters that I like, well written dialogue and character interaction and I just have fun reading it in general, then I hardly care. You call it ripoff, I call it inspiration, he was 15 when he wrote the first one after all.

*Captcha* - Clito appearance

Now thats weird and kinda adult hehe.

I really don't think that his age should excuse him, though. It doesn't matter how old you are, if you stuff ain't good, your stuff should not get published. And he wasn't fifteen when he wrote it. He was fifteen when he started, eighteen, I believe, when he finished. Besides, that level of "inspiration" would likely get me kicked off of my Uni course if I were caught, or at least put my place in jeopardy.

I should note that I don't begrudge people for enjoying his books, I mean I enjoyed Avatar and that film was just pretty, brainless fluff, and it did it's fair share of ripping off other works. I do take exception, however, with people saying that they're well written. It is rare that I find a book so badly written that I'm left angry, and Eragon and it's sequels managed to do so.

On the subject of the captcha's, are they words in various languages or just strings of letters? Sometimes they contain words that I know, or almost-words, and at other times they seem entirely random. Mine at the moment appears to be kteros atincr.

 

[Heartcafe]

I've read these books when I was really young. It's been years, but from what I remember, I really liked them.
AND THE FOURTH BOOK IS FINALLY COMING OUT?
Wow... that took awhile.
Compared to the others, Inheritance took 5/6 years?
I'll probably read it for nostalgia sake, but most of the plot I have forgotten by now.