/lit/ - Literature

Pretty much exact story with me, OP. I just use it now as a last resort for what not to write like.

Think. An entire forest probably went into making this series for all the teens who didn't know any better.

>>674392
>>674403
never read it...anyone MST'd it yet?

I've never touched that filth. I'm a better person than both of you.

Salvatore. Gosh, it was... 8 books in did I realize what I was reading.
Pic related.

>>674392
sorta liked it. Ive read better.

Though I raged hardcore when the movie came out and it destroyed the books storyline.

>>674414

Yes, indeed you are. I don't I know it.

>>674414
OP here. Yes, yes you are.

Story of my life. WoT, Sword of Truth, etc. I finally stopped with Sword of Truth, fuck.

What didn't you like about the books, OP?

>>674464
Star Wars in a fantasy setting. Lead is a self-insert of the author. Riddled with cliches.

>>674480
Star Wars itself is a copy of the hero's journey. It's stupid for people to keep comparing it to that. There's no way to prove the protagonist is a self-insert, and the cliches are a matter of opinion.

QED, mofo.

Harry Potter is the obvious answer. I used to think Mercedes Lackey was the shit when I was younger and I finished off a trilogy even though I became aware the writing was sorta meh halfway through.

BOB SAGET.

>>674498
Are you seriously trying to defend Eragon, internet tuff boy?

Sword of Truth... I shamefully kept up with it to Confessor. I will not be purchasing any of the new ones that have been announced.

I still have nostalgia goggles for Wizard's First Rule though, either that, or it was actually a decent book.

>>674570
There's only one way to find out.

Reread it.

R.A. Salvatore for me, read 7 books, then picked up A Game of Thrones and never looked back

http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=1284

This is the prologue from Eragon and I recommend reading it for both the lulz and for insight into just how shitty the book is.

>>674584
Fuck that. I did that with Halo: The Fall of Reach recently and glorious memories were shattered.

>>674597
Fair enough.

Harry Potter. Then I got into fandom and found out that the adult fandom community had better writing and better plots with the world and few characters I loved from the books. I really have read better fanfics than the series.

What do you guys have against Salvatore?

i kinda liked eragon....

I liked Eldest, but I grew out of it by the time Brisingr came out.

Anyone wanna give me the low-down on what happens?

I read the first two. I won't read the 3rd. The movie has scarred me too much. I mean the books are bad but that movie was breathtakingly bad.

Thirding the Eragon movie, and fourth-ing HP. 'Course, it happened because Dumbledore died, but even when it was justified in the next book I still found it retarded.

I have The Sword of Truth series, John Grisham novels, Wilbur Smith, Clive Cussler amongst other crap. No more of those things will be purchased. I think i'll donate them to a charity shop next time I move house, but they're fine on the shelf for the time being.

Litterbugs are scum.

Redwall.

Read Eragon and Eldest when I was younger. Never read Brisingr.

My parents tried to make me read 'Eragon' when I was around 12, in order to get me into reading. Even then, I couldn't get past the first four pages(even that being a great struggle). My mom wasn't at home at the time, and when I stopped reading it, my dad yelled at me to finished. I replied with "BUT IT SUCKS SO BADLY!"

Later that night, my mother was reading it to me(because I refused to read that crap on my own), and after a mere handful of paragraphs, she said, and I remember it to this day, "Holy Moly, this does suck." So they stopped making me read it, all within the course of one day.

Kids at school berated me when I criticized it, however. They worshipped those books.

>>674804
Those were pretty decent books, at least some of them were. Nothing wrong with reading them as a youngster.

>>674815
>my dad yelled at me to finished

*finsh.

Fuck, I'm on /lit/, I should know better than to not proofread.

What is Eragon about? I've heard of it but never in any detail.

>>674435
I read the shit out of his stuff and really enjoyed it when I was younger/less read.

But then I read "The Ghost King"


Jesus Christ. What a piece of shit.

>>674816

WERE.

Eragon was only famous because it was written by a kid, and it only got published because his parents ran the publishing company. You know damn well that would never have been published by a new adult author. Gimmick worked though and people bought it.

That faggot probably killed Jermomy Irons career.

>>674779
Eldest was the worse by far. Fucking failure to the max.

>>674820
>finsh

>>674820

Yes, you should.

>*finsh.

Twilight.

>>674804
FAGTRON DETECTED

>>674827
lol, i've not kept up to date with it at all, must be 15 years since I read any.

>>674830
I liked it. At the time I enjoyed seeing Eragon go from a naive dipshit to an overpowered mary sue.

At the time of course. I reread the chapter where Murtagh comes back today and it's retarded.

>>674752
He's just nothing special and writes the cliche stuff that is constantly gobbled up by mainstream fantasy.

>>674837
>>674837
>>674837
WOW /lit/ TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH

>>674875
>>674837
Nobody sane ever read Twilight.

>>674875
They're fairly recently published so most people with enough of a interest in literature to post here won't have been interested in them.

>>674779
-Brom turns out to be Eragon's real father, to the surprise of FUCKING NOBODY.
-Nasuada had to do some kind of pain endurance competition thing, I don't know
-Orik becomes the dwarf king
-Roran turns into fucking Rambo, gets punished by severe whipping for SAVING THE MISSION THROUGH HAX
-Other shit happens

>>675020
BROM WAS ERAGON`S FATHER?!

>>675024
Yeaaah.

Artemis Fowl. Except I still have fond memories of the books and think they are well written. I'm sort of scared to re-read them and find out they're shit.

Also the Keys To The Kingdom series by Garth Nix. One of these days I'll pick up the last one.

>>675466
Having just skimmed through an old copy of Keys of the Kingdom, I can confirm that these books are indeed shit. As a kid, I found them shit too, but for different reasons.

>>675024
Also, elf dragonrider dude dies.

>>675466
I dunno, I've reread them a couple of times and they still hold up. Then again, I think the last time I read an AF novel was a couple of years ago....Hm.

>>675477
I think the first two were good, but everything after was awful.
I read up to 4 for some reason.
I may just think the first two are good due to nostalgia.

I've been a big fan of Salvatore's book, I have like 10 books. Recently I've started playing this mmo, dungeons and dragons unlimited and out of blue I wated to re-read those books. I was disgusted. Also, lol Eragon.

>>675479
Yeah that too.

>>674737

link some good fanfics so i don't have to search.

>>675557
>good
>fanfic
hey wait a second

>>675559
Sturgeon's Law applies to everything, fanfics included.

There are bound to be good ones.

>>674403

Trees that are used to make paper comes from farms. It's amazing how few people there are who know this.

>>675584
Uh... Yeah. And only trees that come from farms are used to make paper. The bits and pieces, the little fragments of the other trees after they've been turned into lumber? Nothing gets done with them. Because, like, no one could turn them into paper and make a profit. Fuckhead.

>>675596

Um yeah, but nobody cuts down a forest just to make paper fuckwad. People cut down forests to make room for people to use it.

>>675602

>People cut down forests to make room for people to use the land.

I kind of liked Animorphs, and when I was around 12 I really heavily got in to these books, action, religion, quick easy to read chapters,

I just unpacked my apartment last week and found these all together....

HOLY MOTHER, these are bad, I just want to punch every character in the face, and the dangling plot threads could strangle an elephant.

>>675602
Not, no, monkeyfucker, the comment about farmed trees implied no forests were harmed to make these books. Pointing out that this is a fallacy that should be immediately apparent to anyone who knows even the smallest thing about forestry (i.e., that trees are used to make books).

>>675615

If you're going to play around with semantics then here:

>An entire forest probably went into making this series for all the teens who didn't know any better.

Implies that a forest was destroyed just to make the books. Doesn't happen. The only time a tree is cut down with the only interest being to make something from the lumber is when it's on a farm cockmuncher.

>>675625
Original writer was using synecdoche. You didn't get that?