/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12438630]

Post books that make you consider the merits of book burning.

[Anonymous No.12438654]

[Anonymous No.12438662]

Ironically enough, Fahrenheit 451. Shitty ass book.

[Anonymous No.12438707]

>>12438630
Defending Eragon, the world building was a lot of fun, even if it was generic, the ra'zac were really cool and well handled enemies, and the sequel's half-book

>Roran-and-normal-fucking-townsfolk flee the magical evil empire which is hot pursuit, using nothing but trickery, shitty hammers, and pure-ballsiness"

was so legitimately compelling that it ALMOST makes me want to read the last book I aged out of the demographic for

[Anonymous No.12438713]

>>12438654
It was kind of funny reading this.

[Anonymous No.12438723]

This dragon gonna rape ur ass anymoment

[Anonymous No.12438743]

>>12438707
>Defending Eragon

*Ardwen - Arwen
*Isenstar - Isengard
*Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril
*Angrenost - Angrenost
*Morgothal - Morgoth
*Elessari - Elessar
*Furnost - Fornost
*Hadarac Desert - Harad Desert
*Melian - Melian
*Vanilor - Valinor
*Eridor - Eriador
*Imiladris - Imladris
*Undin - Fundin/Udun
*Gil'ead - Gil'Galad
*Ceranthor - Caranthir
*Isidar - Isiludir
*Oromis- OOrome

Such an imagination. Almost enough to forget the story follows Star Wars point for point.

[Anonymous No.12438765]

>>12438743
well let’s not forget the name Eragon is literally just dragon with the first letter increments by one letter. Paolini is a fucking troll.

[Anonymous No.12438777]

>>12438630
Say what you will, but Eragon got me into reading in elementary school.

[Anonymous No.12438778]

>>12438743
>Fantasy writers steal setting details from Tolkien and Star Wars mercilessly

Got any more hot takes for us, anon?

[Anonymous No.12438791]

>>12438777
That doesn't reflect well on Tortellini, it reflects poorly on you.

[Anonymous No.12438806]

>>12438778
>details

Tell me if I'm describing Star Wars or Eragon here:

At the start of the story a princess leading a rebellion against an evil empire is being pursued by the evil emperor's right hand man. She's stolen an object of great importance to the empire. Before she is captured she attempts to secret the item away to a hermit who once belonged to an ancient order of warriors with mystical powers. However the item inadvertently comes into the possession of a boy of foggy origins living with his uncle on a remote farm. The evil emperor's minions track the item to the farm and destroy it, killing the boy's relatives. The boy escapes with the old hermit who gives him a sword he claims belonged to the boy's father. As they travel the hermit trains the boy in the ways of the ancient order of warriors. Then the hermit dies protecting the boy, the boy rescues the princess from the start of the story with the help of a dashing rogue, and the boy, rogue, and princess journey together to the rebellion's secret headquarters which has come under attack by the evil empire. At the climax the boy saves the day with the timely help of his friends. Afterwards he has a vision of a powerful master of the ancient order of warriors who can finish his training. He seeks the master out and trains with him, growing very powerful. But before his training is finished the boy has premonitions that his friends are in danger. He decides he must go to help them despite his master warning him not to go. The boy promises that he will return and leaves. He finds his friends just in time as they are threatened by the evil emperor's right hand man. In the ensuing fight the evil emperor's right hand man reveals that he and the boy are related. The boy is shocked and ultimately defeated, but not killed.

[Anonymous No.12438820]

>>12438806

>The hero's Journey is a time tested story structure that's been used in all forms of media pretty much since the greeks invented it

Look, I get that it's cool to be contrarian, but this is well walked ground; all the fun's in the moment to moment, not the high-level parallels, and that moment to moment's pretty okay in Eragon.

[Anonymous No.12438877]

>>12438820
>Star Wars IS The Hero's Journey, so Eragon is not copying Star Wars, just a well worn thematic framework.

Stop being disingenuous you little twit. Read that post again and tell me what other Hero's Journey plots fits the pieces that specifically. Name just one.

[Anonymous No.12438900]

[Anonymous No.12438902]

>>12438877

The Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty, esteemed western animation

[Anonymous No.12438933]

>>12438791
Ah yes, I'm sorry that my first foray into literature was through mediocre fantasy. I'm sure you started with the /lit/ entry-level literature chart when you were 10, yes?

[Anonymous No.12438971]

>>12438900
You mad because he writes better than you?

[Anonymous No.12438989]

>>12438900
Why? This is next on my list

[Anonymous No.12439001]

>>12438630
You got what you deserved. It has a picture of a dragon on its cover ffs

[Anonymous No.12439044]

>>12438933
No but I knew well enough to recognize Eragon as trash when I was in middle school.

[Anonymous No.12439109]

>>12439044
Congratulations!
Here's your medal:
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O

[Anonymous No.12439129]

>>12438989
Because he's an edgy racist and probably hasn't even read it

[Anonymous No.12439159]

I bet this book has inspired hundreds of /lit/izens to keep writing on the basis that "if this schlock can get published, so can mine"

[Anonymous No.12439173]

>>12438662
this

[Anonymous No.12439176]

>the nazis were horrible people trying to enslave and exterminate us
>which is why they undertook extreme measures to march us around to different camps feeding us while we did absolutely nothing
just

[Anonymous No.12439189]

>>12439176
iirc he basically admitted to making the book up, or at least filling gaps where he didn't have anything to write.

[Anonymous No.12439194]

>>12439159
Yeah but how many of us have wealthy and doting parents ready to self-publish for us.

[Anonymous No.12439196]

>>12439044
>when I was in middle school
Your misplaced bragging makes you look like that was not long ago.

[Anonymous No.12439202]

>>12439176
>>12439189
Historical documents:
https://imgur.com/a/725A7

Einsatzgruppen records:
https://imgur.com/a/AubwH

Complicity of High Command:
https://imgur.com/a/MbpVq

[Anonymous No.12439212]

i own one of these and don't know what to do with it
put it in one of those public bookshelves and potentially expose another person to this drivel?
or just destroy it?

[Anonymous No.12439215]

>>12439196
Well I'm 30 so I guess you must be projecting

[Anonymous No.12439218]

>>12439202
I'm not denying the holocaust, or saying that it wasn't terrible. Just that Weisel was a hack

[Anonymous No.12439257]

>>12438877
This. No rebellion or evil empire in the Hero's Journey, likewise the "I am your father" trick is pretty characteristic of star wars. Heck even the ancient order of warrior is not a universal thing. You guys should reread Epic of Gilgamesh.

[Anonymous No.12439260]

>>12439194
The Bezos does that for us now

[Anonymous No.12439278]

>>12438900
>t can appreciate a complex character study against the backdrop of a well thought out portrayal of colonialism

[Anonymous No.12439287]

>>12439260
But will he tell everyone we're prodigies for writing our stories at 15 when we were actually 19?

[Anonymous No.12439310]

>>12439202
clearly there were camps, clearly people were killed, but clearly the pop narrative is total bullshit and the authors' extrapolations of documents in your link are all full of confirmation bias and don't prove anything.
>these couldnt possibly be gas chambers, look at the doors
>well obviously they changed the door before the picture was taken lol

[Anonymous No.12439337]

>>12439310
>well obviously they changed the door before the picture was taken lol

Uh, yeah? Much of the current camp is a reconstruction.

[Anonymous No.12439345]

>>12438662
It got me to start reading again.

[Anonymous No.12439350]

>>12439337
>Much of the current camp is a reconstruction.
this
everyone knows the russians built those chimneys after the war

[Anonymous No.12439365]

>>12439337
the images i'm referring to were taken during or immediately after the war

[Anonymous No.12439371]

>>12439215
30 and bragging on an imageboard about hating Paolini in middle school. Maybe it's time to rethink some things?

[Anonymous No.12439387]

>>12439371
>more projection

Deal with your insecurities on your own.

[Anonymous No.12439395]

>>12438630
>an interesting children's book
faggot

[Anonymous No.12439402]

>>12439365
After the Germans scuttled the camps. Okay.

[Anonymous No.12439409]

>>12439371
I'm 42 and I'd beat the fuck out of Paolini if I could. While he asked me why I'm breaking his fingers and farting in his face I'd tell him I heard about his shitty books on /lit/ and I think he deserves to die for wasting children's time. Children deserve better than this. I just wish I could have kicked his ass when he was a little kid thinking he's so cool for writing this filth.

[Anonymous No.12439430]

>>12439402
>our country is being invaded from all sides and our death is immanent unless we act fast
>quick, change the doors on the gas chambers instead of doing literally anything else, or people will find out we were being naughty this whole time
???

[Anonymous No.12439459]

>>12439287
Nah, we have to make sockpuppet accounts and fake identities nowadays.

[Anonymous No.12439469]

>>12438743

>Defending Tolkien

From stanzas 9-16 of Völuspá:

“Then gathered together the gods for counsel,

the holy hosts, and held converse:

who the deep-dwelling dwarfs was to make

of Brimir’s blood and Bláin’s bones.
“Mótsognir rose, mightiest ruler

of the kin of dwarfs, but Durin next;

molded many manlike bodies

the dwarfs under earth, as Durin bade them.
“Nýi and Nithi, Northri and Suthri,

Austri and Vestri, Althjóf, Dvalin,

Nár and Náin, Níping, Dáin,

Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Nóri,

Án and Onar, Ái, Mjóthvitnir.
“Veig and Gandálf, Vindálf, Thráin,

Thekk and Thorin, Thrór, Vit, and Lit,

Nár and Regin, Nýráth and Ráthsvith;

now is reckoned the roster of dwarfs.
“Fíli, Kíli, Fundin, Náli,

Heptifíli, Hanar, Svíur,

Frár, Hornbori, Fræg and Lóni,

Aurvang, Jari, Eikinskjaldi.
“The dwarfs I tell now in Dvalin’s host,

down to Lofar- for listening wights-

they who hied them from halls of stone

over sedgy shores to sandy plains.
“There was Draupnir and Dólgthrasir,

Hár and Haugspori, Hlévang, Glói,

Skirvir, Virvir, Skafith, Ái,

Álf and Yngvi, Eikinskjaldi,
“Fjalar and Frosti, Finn and Ginnar.

Will ever be known, while earth doth last,

the line of dwarfs to Lofar down.”

[Anonymous No.12439528]

>>12438654
I unironically enjoyed this series.

[Anonymous No.12439581]

>>12439176
>which is why they undertook extreme measures to march us around to different camps feeding us while we did absolutely nothing

If that was somehow one of your takeaways from it, not only did you misread it, but I can't help but think you'd have to want to.

[Anonymous No.12439589]

Reminder that Marxism and Communism are meme ideologies along with Nazism and Fascism

[Anonymous No.12439627]

>>12439430
Just bomb the whole thing desu.

[Anonymous No.12439674]

>>12438765
What the hell, I never noticed that

[Anonymous No.12439692]

>>12439212

But WWZ was a lot of fun. The ending drags, but the entire middle is tons of fun.

[Anonymous No.12439716]

>>12438654
I despise this book so much I can't even describe it to you. Shit like Eragon is bad in a pathetic way, I don't even hate it because it doesn't phase me, but Lev Grossman's shit is just infuriating. You can just feel the self-importance oozing off the pages. He's to Harry Potter what GRRM is to Lord of the Rings.
I wish I could meet him, just to tell him he's a lousy pseud and his shit is intolerable. I hope to god he somehow reads this.
>>12439159
Nah. My parents don't work in publishing.
>>12439176
I just don't read anything written about the holocaust. Besides the obvious, holocaust shit was force-fed to us in school to such an extent I can't tolerate reading or watching anything remotely featuring WWII.

[Anonymous No.12439756]

>>12439212
>put it in one of those public bookshelves and potentially expose another person to this drivel?
I dont know why I am laughing so hard at this

[Anonymous No.12440088]

>>12439716
Nothing is wrong with self-importance.

[Anonymous No.12440451]

>>12438806
This is alarming. I read the Eragon series as a kid and never realized that it was literally just a copy of star wars

[Anonymous No.12440457]

White Noise, Master and Margarita

[Anonymous No.12440464]

>>12440451
Same it’s apparently actually a mash up of a bunch of things

[Anonymous No.12440491]

Its a long and profitable tradition that you all can get in on. Most famously, Fistfull of Dollars was almost a shot for shot copy of Yojimbo. Pick a popular book or movie and transplant the plot into a different trope-filled setting. Put Achilles in power armor in your Space Iliad! Edomundo Dantesu causing a havok in any Japanese time period from 1900 onward! It works with anything, and all you need to do is shuffle a few letters around in all the proper nouns!

[Anonymous No.12440493]

Literally the book that made me think twice before tackling another doorstop.

I really fucking hate this book and the time I wasted with it.

[Anonymous No.12440548]

>>12439469
based and Exoduspilled

[Anonymous No.12440563]

>>12440457
>Master and Margarita
FUCK YOU

[Anonymous No.12440573]

>>12438630
>>12438711

[Anonymous No.12440578]

>>12439589
They're all cut from the same cloth of centralized control for means and production

[Anonymous No.12440596]

>>12438630
>>12438654
I don't hate them. It gives me hope that I will eventually get published.

[Anonymous No.12440602]

>>12440493
This book lead to all the popular battle royale games like fortnite and pubg.

[Anonymous No.12440605]

>>12438630
>worldwide phenomenon
lol no one cares about this shit

[Anonymous No.12440628]

>>12440605
When this came out it was seriously hot shit. Every literate kid I knew had read it. Sold so much that Fox blew a hundred mil on the movie adaptation like a year after the book came out. Had Jeremy Irons and John Malkovitch, and the big villain was Begby from Trainspotting. I had that shit on fuckin VHS. It was horrible.

[Anonymous No.12440671]

>>12440628
I saw the movie in theaters for my birthday when I was a kid, since I loved the book. That was the most disappointing birthday of my life

[Anonymous No.12440672]

>>12438630
The only book I've ever read that did not compel me to read it. Dickens was a hack.

[Anonymous No.12440673]

>>12440671
that's depressing af actually

[Anonymous No.12440677]

>>12440605
It was a genuine phenomenon for a short time

[Anonymous No.12440679]

>>12440671
That was the exact point in my life where I stopped being excited for movie adaptations.

[Anonymous No.12440687]

>>12440596
Do you have a rich dad with connections in the publishing industry?

[Anonymous No.12440699]

>>12440687
No. And, I'm a straight white gentile.

[Anonymous No.12440723]

>>12440687
To be fair, it was self published until some guy from Knopf found it and was like "I can make kids buy this shit so easy"

[Anonymous No.12441598]

>>12439469
Oh wow. Out of Tolkien's nearly 1,000 named characters, many of whom have multiple names, several from the bedtime story he wrote for his children were copied from an old poem no one outside of the philology department bothers to read. This is totally exquivalent to being blatantly derivative of two of most most well known works of fiction in existence.

[Anonymous No.12441621]

>>12439716
>Shit like Eragon is bad in a pathetic way

Tortellini oozes self-importance also. By his own estimation he writes on par with Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney and Tolkien "at his best". Let's consider an example of his artistry:

>The branch Roran had added to the fire burst asunder with a muted pop as the coals underneath heated the gnarled length of wood to the point where a small cache of water or sap that had somehow evaded the rays of the sun for untold decades exploded into steam.

[Anonymous No.12441664]

[Anonymous No.12441679]

>>12441621
That's pretty visually evocative baka desu senpai

[Anonymous No.12441771]

>>12438630
Everything from Terry Brooks - and toss him on the pile along with his books.

[Anonymous No.12441790]

>>12438630
Anything to with communism or sex-worship. The same as the book burning the national socialists did.

[Anonymous No.12442365]

>>12440451
Had you not seen Star Wars when you read it?

[Anonymous No.12443841]

>>12438933
Not him but I unironically got into literature when I read Don Quixote in middle school

[Anonymous No.12443859]

why does it say dragon but its actually a blue horse

[Anonymous No.12443862]

>>12440672
This is on my shelf to read. Should I not then?

[Anonymous No.12443931]

>>12438630
>no eragon x saphira ending
I agree

[Anonymous No.12443978]

>>12439129
Go back

[Anonymous No.12444441]

>>12440671
>>12440679
>Critic Consensus: Written by a teenager (and it shows), Eragon presents nothing new to the "hero's journey" story archetype. In movie terms, this movie looks and sounds like Lord of the Rings and plays out like a bad Star Wars rip-off. The movie spins the tale of a peasant boy who is suddenly entrusted with a dragon and must, with the help of a mentor, train, grow strong, and defeat an evil emperor. The way the critics picture it, the makers of Eragon should soon be expecting an annoyed phone call from George Lucas.

Sounds like a pretty spot on adaptation to me.

[Anonymous No.12444491]

>>12440687
>>12440723
I'm pretty sure Eragon's author grew up in Montana as part of some fringe Christian denomination, which isn't exactly the kind of life that's rife with publishing connections.

[Anonymous No.12444524]

>>12438630
Friendly reminder that books burnings are the most aesthetic and literary experiences.

[Anonymous No.12444585]

I am curious: what is so terrible about Eragon? I got it as a gift for my twelfth birthday, probably because the giver knew I was repeatedly devouring Tolkien and H. G Wells at the time. I don't remember how much of it I read, but I didn't get anywhere close to finishing. It just didn't pull me in, but now I can't recall what it was that turned me off about it so much, and I'm sure I was too young to formulate any incisive critique of it. I don't remember having this experience with any other books during my early adolescence. Everything else I read I seemed to like. Makes me feel saw now because the man who gave it to me, my godfather, dead now, was so damned nice and wrote me a sincere card to go along with it.

What is so bad about it? I am genuinely curious.

[Anonymous No.12444686]

>>12444585
see
>>12438743
>>12438806
>>12441621

Also the author wasn't 15 when he wrote his book either. He "imagined" the story at that age and actually wrote it when he was 19. And he's a furfag, one of his characters is a blue furred wolf/elf hybrid who makes women uncomfortable because he emits a musk that makes them horny and no I am not making any of that up.

Were all of you too stupid to know shit when you saw it as kids? Fuck your godfather.

[Anonymous No.12444925]

>>12439409
I hope I'll be spared the fate of becoming a pathetic man like you.

[Anonymous No.12445246]

>>12441598
Tolkien literally stole everything from european history and mytholgy, the only new thing he added are orcs.

The one ring = Draupnir and Ring des Nibelungen

[Anonymous No.12445473]

>>12445246
It's Ring der Nibelungen. Also Tolkien didn't "steal" from mythology the same way Paolini stole from Tolkien.

[Anonymous No.12445580]

It's another
> let's get retroactively upset about books we read when we were 8
thread

[Anonymous No.12445587]

>>12445246
Right right I remember the whole journey to the volcano in Ring der Nibelungen. LotR really just follows the plot of that as closely as Eragon follows Star Wars here >>12438806. But of course that's simply because all Hero's Journeys must follow that outline too.

[Anonymous No.12445603]

>>12445473
what did Paolini stole from Tolkien besides
Orcs = Urgal
Uruk-hai = Kull

[Anonymous No.12445605]

>>12445580
>retroactively

Speak for yourself. Some of us didn't need decades of additional reading to know garbage when we saw it.

[Anonymous No.12445615]

>>12445603
*Ardwen - Arwen
*Isenstar - Isengard
*Mithrim - Mithrim or mithril
*Angrenost - Angrenost
*Morgothal - Morgoth
*Elessari - Elessar
*Furnost - Fornost
*Hadarac Desert - Harad Desert
*Melian - Melian
*Vanilor - Valinor
*Eridor - Eriador
*Imiladris - Imladris
*Undin - Fundin/Udun
*Gil'ead - Gil'Galad
*Ceranthor - Caranthir
*Isidar - Isiludir
*Oromis- Orome

[Anonymous No.12445645]

>>12439469
Imagine writing this

[Anonymous No.12445655]

>>12438900
checked. i enjoyed this book desu what don't you like about it?
>>12438902
based

[Anonymous No.12445677]

>>12438902
To be fair, you have to have be a Freemason to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Luciferian philosophy most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's conspiratorial outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Albert Pike's literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about THE DEVIL. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE uninitiated- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "If there's a God it's fucking me" which itself is a direct reference to Satanism. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated atheist brainlets scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's esoteric symbolism unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Square and Compass tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the Lodges eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 3 degrees of my own (preferably higher) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.

[Anonymous No.12445679]

>>12438743
>>12438765
There are multiple layers to Eragon's name. It's also "era"+"gone", because Eragon brings a new era. It's actually very cleverly constructed.

[Anonymous No.12445680]

>>12439129
I'm an edgy racist and I loved it. He's just a true brainlet

[Anonymous No.12445704]

[Anonymous No.12445710]

>>12440578
>fascism
>centralized means and production
you dumb af whiteboi

[Anonymous No.12445718]

>>12439409
He would beatthe living shit out of you while everytime he puches your old saggy face he yells "BRISINGR!" like a mad man.

[Anonymous No.12445720]

>>12445679
No, it's just Aragorn minus two letters the same as the other 17 names there.

[Anonymous No.12445749]

>>12445677
based

[Anonymous No.12445753]

>>12445718
>he yells "BAZINGA!" like a mad man

[Anonymous No.12445762]

Everything by Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein. Millions of people those two led to extremism and bad life choices for utter bullshit reasons can't be forgiven. Both should be burned in pile of their own books (Chomsky is old and might die peacefully without suffering horrible pain so uhm hurry up maybe)

[Anonymous No.12445787]

>>12445718
Where's he live I need an address for my pipe bomb.

[Anonymous No.12445789]

>>12445645
Imagine copy pasting it

[Anonymous No.12445794]

>>12445787
you wanna mess with him?

[Anonymous No.12445804]

>>12445794
Woah, I best not!

[Anonymous No.12445807]

What's your opinion on this Harry Potter book?

[Anonymous No.12445832]

>>12445804
thought so

[Anonymous No.12445909]

>>12438806
>sword
youre describing Eragon

[Anonymous No.12445923]

>>12439212
lmao whenever I finish a shit book I put it in one of those librarys

[Anonymous No.12446137]

>>12445909
Laser swords are not swords?

[Anonymous No.12446574]

>>12444491
His parents were some manner of publishers. Not like execs at Penguin or anything but definitely had the clout to have a book printed independently back in the early 00's, and to get someone from an actual major name interested.

[Anonymous No.12446595]

>>12446574
Weren't they just rich enough to self-publish their autistic son's literal fanfiction until an actual publisher bought it up?

[Anonymous No.12446979]

>>12446574
>>12446595
carl hiaasen's kid found eragon in some bookshop so carl pushed to have it published

[Anonymous No.12447111]

>>12445909
is a sabre (saber) not a type of sword??

[Anonymous No.12447162]

>>12439409
You are a sad little man.

[Anonymous No.12447180]

>>12447162
Not as sad as Tortellini.

[Anonymous No.12447492]

>>12438707
Glad to see someone else of this mindset, I was cleaning out my attic and found the first 3 books from when I was younger and flipping through them made me remember all those chapters almost immediately and despite the writing being YA quality, I still liked the Roran chapters a lot. It's not great but he was onto something at the very least, I even remember rolling my eyes when Roran and Eragon meet up at that one battle and Eragon looks like a shirtless ripped elf. Even that was too much for past pleb me

[Anonymous No.12447499]

>>12438630
Fanged Noumena

[Anonymous No.12447757]

>>12447492
>omg you liked this shitty book too!?

Why don't you form a club or something.

[Anonymous No.12447772]

>>12447757
>I come to threads about X to be mad at X

It's like putting shit in your mouth and complaining about the flavor; what did you expect?

[Anonymous No.12447790]

>>12438630
Eragon is based

[Anonymous No.12447792]

>>12447790
why

[Anonymous No.12447813]

>>12439212
>put it in one of those public bookshelves and potentially expose another person to this drivel?
damn i thought i was the only one.

[Anonymous No.12447816]

>>12447792
>Dragons fucking shit up
>Written by a teenager so he knows what kids like better than any YA author
>Lots of violence and action

[Anonymous No.12447992]

>>12447757
Calm down damn, can people not reflect on the things they had in common as a child, are you so bitter and jaded people and desperate for haha asshole chan culture that others can't go "haha i did the same" when they were stupid kids christ sarcasm and bad manners was one of the worst thing to happen to the internet you can't show any genuine thoughts on or have good faith towards something as trivial as a children's book

[Anonymous No.12448362]

>>12447992
oh did I hurt your feelings ;(

[Anonymous No.12449011]

>>12438707
there are actually four books, it's a "cycle" now not a trilogy
I read all four books
AMA

[Anonymous No.12449017]

>>12449011
Why does Eragon string his bow all the time?

[Anonymous No.12449019]

>>12449017
it's a metaphor
he's jerking off

[Anonymous No.12450152]

>>12449011
How does it end?

[Anonymous No.12450184]

>>12449011

Is the fourth one worth reading?

[Anonymous No.12450209]

>>12450184
Uh, were the others?

[Anonymous No.12450249]

>>12438806
>sword belongs to father
I didn't read the last book but I thought the sword just belonged to a dead dragon rider. Is that revealed to be his dad?
>dashing rogue
Who?
>Evil emperor's right hand man is the boy's father
I thought the Shade was killed in the first book, and not related to Eragon

structurally similar yes, but star wars copies the oldest story format ever, the "hero on a journey", it's as old as storytelling.

[Anonymous No.12450256]

>>12450209

As a kid? Yeah.

The second and third book's Roran bits are also unironically enjoyable, and babby's first Hero's Journey is still pretty great. Stuff like the Mary Sue protagonist that comes off as saccharine when you're in your 20s-40s actually makes it more fun for a kid.

This is incidentally one of the reasons little kids love Frozen, the idea of an extra special child with superpowers as a kid is super cool, because you're not cynical about it yet, which means you can self-insert rather than gag.

All three were competently told even if simple and derivative. I never understood the "he basically copied star wars" complaint at a critical level, because because if somebody makes an adaptation thats 30% shittier than the source material they were cribbing; if the original was a 9, that's still a 6.3

[Anonymous No.12450277]

>>12450256
Roran is the best part of the books, he basically does a Guts 100+ kill streak with his shitty hammer and a spear

[Anonymous No.12450395]

>>12438900
You mad he has more yams than you?

[Anonymous No.12450536]

>>12448362
cringe

[Anonymous No.12450618]

>>12450249
The red sword was said to be his dad's. The rogue was that guy who Eragon got all pissy towards because of his "stab first, ask questions later" attitude. He become the Vader after the vampire died. After defeating Eragon he revealed "Eragon... I am your brother". Having mutiple Vaders at different points in the story does not mean they aren't filling the same role.

>but star wars copies the oldest story format ever, the "hero on a journey", it's as old as storytelling.

Would you Tortellini apologists stop parroting this tired, bullshit argument? The first two Eragon books follow the first two Star Wars movies to the letter.

[Anonymous No.12450912]

All I remember from reading the series is his brother escaping with the village,most distinctly him taking on an army one at a time, generally making eragon look like a pussy, and the magic system, which I liked, as I had never come across magic having rules before. I really remember the snapping of nerves to kill people instantly with little effort.
I also remember wondering if the relationship between the dragon and eragon was supposed to be like a big-sister, as I was the eldest in the house full of boys, so I found the idea comfy. Never read beyond the 2nd book though.

[Anonymous No.12450931]

>>12450912
I liked the magic system until I read earthsea, that book was much cooler with the protagonist basically making a boat out of words

[Anonymous No.12450938]

>>12445677
I wish you know more about masonry so this wasn’t so hard to read.

[Anonymous No.12450939]

>>12450931
Is that YA?

[Anonymous No.12450949]

>>12450939
it was a very light read, but I read that a long time ago so I dont remember really

[Anonymous No.12451008]

>>12450912
>as I had never come across magic having rules before

Tortellini's system of magic is, of course, completely copy/pasted from A Wizard of Earthsea.

[Anonymous No.12452436]

>>12444686
kek'd heartily, I forgot about that furfag shit

[Anonymous No.12452445]

>>12445603
muh dwarves in mountains muh mysterious magic elves in the forest muh evil guy buiding a huge army of muh orcs to destroy liberal democracy

[Anonymous No.12452463]

>>12452436
>I forgot about that furfag shit
anon, its a book about dragons of course its furfag shit
tfw no Saphira waifu/buddy

[Anonymous No.12453637]

>>12439469
Have you never heard of a literary reference

[Anonymous No.12454060]

>>12443862
I loved Great Expectations

[Anonymous No.12454081]

>>12438900
>not having a rich yam harvest

[Anonymous No.12455201]

>>12444686
>one of his characters is a blue furred wolf/elf hybrid who makes women uncomfortable because he emits a musk that makes them horny and no I am not making any of that up.
I don't remember this. Can you elaborate on it?

[Anonymous No.12455229]

>>12445807
Just read the whole thing fuck

[Anonymous No.12455271]

[Anonymous No.12455280]

>>12455201
Elves are all trans and turn themselves into whatever kind of creature they feel like they are. Then they have a big outdoors orgy and one elf eragon sees is said furry elf

[Anonymous No.12455353]

>>12438662
>>12455271
why

[Anonymous No.12455379]

>>12455353
i haven’t read a thread i’ve posted in in years

[Anonymous No.12455618]

>>12438630
all books deserve to exist, as does all art. Im mad at people for being retards, they should know better and it should not be someone else's job to keep them safe from le evil books or dumb choice.

[Anonymous No.12455622]

>>12455353
its not a well written book. reads very much like an old man yelling at clouds.