/lit/ - Literature

>>11293410

>>11293410
I really enjoyed hating those books when I was a kid.

>>11293410
I straight up enjoyed the whole series. dont give a shit what anyone else says.

>>11293457
They are legitimately better than most popular fantasy series, including ASOIAF and Wheel of Time.

People who hate the Inheritance Cycle are just pretentious blowhards.

>>11293410
Why do people seem to hate the Inheritance Cycle so much?
Sure the dwarfs and elves are taken straight out of Tolkien but overall it was enjoyable.

>>11293410
First one was really good, but the rest of the series was incredibly boring. I didn't even finish the third book.

>>11293410
Why does that dragon look so solemn and pussified?

>>11293542
Because it's a female

>>11293547
Interesting. On second analysis it looks sultry and come-hither. Is there a human-on-dragon sex scene in this series?

>>11293410

>>11293462
Definitely better than WoT

>>11293577
You don’t know how close you are to the truth

>>11293506

Because the magic doesn't make sense and instead of wiping it all on a clean slate from the first book's setup, retard Paolini kept trying to improve on it as he went, making "wards" and "shield" spells (which essentially make Eragon retarded OP), and he also tried to incorporate scientific logic into his magical rules, which was just insulting and stupid. Read his recent AMA. It's just a fuckfest of retcon bullshit

>>11293410
unironically the Prydain books are GOAT

>>11294432
this

>>11294467
I genuinely hate that ASOIAF is considered the gold standard of fantasy. It's a shitty retelling of the war of the roses but with fantasy elements shoehorned in so nerds will read it.

>>11293410
I remember liking it in elementary school, but even I could see how stupid the magic system was getting as the series went on like how you could drain energy from other organisms, which basically meant if you were in a forest you'd have essentially limitless energy.
Also the idea that the cost of a spell is draining on you in the sense that it takes the energy as if you had done it doesn't make sense because that'd mean magic strength is determined solely by physical strength

It's Harry Potter tier.

>>11293410

>>11293985
>incorporate scientific logic into his magical rules
Fuck you that was my favorite part.
What on earth does that "insult"? Eragon IS for teenagers straight off of reading Harry Potter but it's decemt teenager shit nonetheless and his magic system was perfect. Really stimulated my magitech imagination. Paolini describes magical radiation as a left over of the magic-nukes without ever using the word "radiation". That was top notch.

>>11293410
>>11293462
Excellent bait.

>>11294920
It's worse than that. It's Twilight tier.

I enjoyed it as a teenager.
I still think I own all the books.

Its ok

>>11293462
They're generic boring high fantasy, you just have sexual thoughts about dragons

>>11294946
"But it's for KIDS" isn't a defense for dumb shlock. Even HP didn't fall flat on its face in its treatment of a magical anime power system

>>11294519
Llooool when does that happen in the books

>>11293457
Me too, but the ending was underwhelming.
>>11293462
>including ASOIAF
lol

>>11296755
It's treatment was fine.

>>11293591
this but unironically

>>11294923
I like the art. What's this one about?

>>11293410
genrefic discussion in the appropriate thread please

>>11293410
Beautiful bait thread, can't resist.

If we're talking YA books what about the CHERUB series?

>>11293506
Well not only the elves and dwards but the plot was taken straight away from Star Wars.

>>11297201
Good for people that never seen Star Wars then :^)

>>11294946

>the magic system was perfect

you must be fucking high or retarded. If the magic rules in Eragon stimulated your imagination and satisfied you do NOT read an actual fantasy novel with rock-solid rules or your head might fucking explode.

the magic rules in eragon are fucking awful

>hurrdurr wordless magic is entirely based on intent
>hurrdurr 150 year old king doesn't bother to protect himself from it literally just by speaking
>hurrdurr leads to his downfall

want more?

>hurrdurr brom dies to a knife wound
>hurrdurr ancient rider with infinite knowledge of magic who had so much energy stored in his ring he could've literally thrown a mountain

also, if magic is based on intent, how the fuck was Elva a thing? Eragon's intentions were good, he just misspoke the language (which was defined as nothing more than a conduit for said intent (magic))

fucking sit dude. teen fantasy or not, it still needs to be fucking coherent

>>11297339
Magic is LOCKED to the language when that language is used to cast it. That was the whole point of the ancient elves binding all magic to the language.
Then if an adept wordlessly casts magic directly with thought, intent becomes the standard. Here magic returns to it's primordial pre-binding nature.
Do you even remember the book? Was this your impression while reading it? You read it badly.

>>11293410
I remember being like 8 and thinking these books were super fuckin corny.

>>11294946
>Paolini describes magical radiation as a left over of the magic-nukes without ever using the word "radiation". That was top notch.
Was this in the main series? I don't remember anything about that even though I read the book literally over a decade ago.

>>11298165
Well my 8 year old self could have fun with the silly bullshit even if I could kind of see how silly some of it was (Like the immortal soldiers that became immortal because they couldn't feel pain lol)

>>11298183
Last book when they go to the old Rider Island

>>11298200
The one where they try to find their true name?

>>11293506
The only thing I remember was him solving orc human violence by creating the Olympics

>>11298206
There was human orc violence?
Also you just made me remember the cat-human species
I thought shades were the coolest shit when I was a kid

>>11298203
Here, pulled straight from the wiki:
>During this battle, a Dragon Rider named Thuviel performed a spell on himself, apparently as a last-ditch attempt to destroy the attackers, in which he converted every atom in his body into pure energy, most likely by the process of nuclear fission. The spell killed Thuviel and resulted in a blast of cataclysmic proportions, decimating the island but failing to kill Galbatorix and all but one of the Forsworn, who shielded themselves. The Forsworn Glaerun and his Dragon were both killed, as were many Riders and Dragons, both wild and bonded. The explosion also resulted in the entire island being contaminated with an "invisible poison", which is probably radiation, given the nature of the effects caused by it, such as skin lesions. Glaedr, however, did not know this word to describe it (the concept being beyond the understanding of the science of the time) and so simply stated it to be an "invisible poison."

>>11298072
That's a retarded internal logic system and you're a fucking moron

>>11298213
Yeah I remember his orcs are basi uruk. And in the last book his solution to stop humans and orcs from murdering each other all the time is to make the Olympics every so many years to foster competition because the orcs need to fight humans to prove how strong they were. I would have stopped reading right there but it was already the last book

>>11298230
Hey bucko don't get all butthurt just because I've made it apparent you've misremembered the series.

>>11298215
That's not how radiationworks and paolini is a fucking moron. You think this is good writing but it only proves he's shit

>>11298230
Not trying to defend Eragan too much here but why. It actually makes sense

>>11298255
That's exactly how radiation works. How do you think radiation works?

>>11298285
That isn't how fallout from a nuclear bomb works you moron the danger is airborne not lingering radiation. The "poison air" would have already dissipated to harmless levels . Try again

>>11298296
That's what happened though, I assume, considering that Eragon went to the island.

>>11293591
FUCK
I remember this fucking book. I forgot all about it but you reminded me. Was it good? I genuinely don't remember, and now I'm too drunk to recall.

>>11298255
Waltz into modern Chernobyl's exclusion zone then faggot. Fallout still blankets the ground and radiation lingers. So much so that Eragon needed to come up with novel ward spells to block the radiation.

>>11298255
4chan's ability to stretch for reasons to hate things never ceases to amaze me

>>11298296
Good thing it was never stipulated that the radistion is in the "air" idiot.

>>11293457
Same. I remember how much fun I had reading those books.

>>11294519
ASOIAF is not that bad actually. I just think the TV show ruined the experience.

>>11294519
GRRM is Christopher Nolan of fantasy

>>11293410

>spends books building up the colossal power of galbs dragon
>dude magic spear lmao

>>11294923
Based

>>11299476
I was particularly irked that he was just some brainwashed fucker.

>>11296747
>you just have sexual thoughts about dragons
So true. The Inheritance books are shit, though.

>>11293577
No. Only cockblocking and pseudo--cuckolding,