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Eragon

I read the book. As to whether the writing is more mature or better than Harry Potter, to be honest, yes. I think JK Rowling made it a bit more simple for people, whereas Paolini took elements of a whole bunch of stories. Not really his fault, mind you, elves and dwarves have been done to death that there really is no originality anymore.
 
The first book introduced some great characters that havent been touched on in too many fantasy novels : the werecat Somblebum, the dwarf trained Healer (witch?) Angela, , the black princess and her people...

The second book ignored the first book's creative characters and focused on the stereotypic look "how great the elves are, all humans should be like them blah blah" .

I really liked the first book and am greatly disappointed by the second, I wonder what he is going to do for the third one...
 
Leareth said:
The first book introduced some great characters that havent been touched on in too many fantasy novels : the werecat Somblebum, the dwarf trained Healer (witch?) Angela, , the black princess and her people...

The second book ignored the first book's creative characters and focused on the stereotypic look "how great the elves are, all humans should be like them blah blah" .

I really liked the first book and am greatly disappointed by the second, I wonder what he is going to do for the third one...
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interesting........i just bought the 2nd book tonight. i have about 30 pages left to go in the first. i hope the 2nd book is better than how you described it
 
twoodcc said:
well apparently people liked the book, or there never would have been a movie. same applies to Eragon.*
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I think they just made a film adaptation of Da Vinci because they knew how controversial it would be, which would in turn get more people to go see it, even though it was a piss-poor film. Many more people in this country watch movies than read books, because reading books is a smart people thing, and that just isn't cool.
 
CorvusCamenarum said:
I think they just made a film adaptation of Da Vinci because they knew how controversial it would be, which would in turn get more people to go see it, even though it was a piss-poor film. Many more people in this country watch movies than read books, because reading books is a smart people thing, and that just isn't cool.
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i agree with you about movies compare to books in this country. but i must say, that was a popular book before the movie. it seems everyone had read it except me
 
twoodcc said:
i agree with you about movies compare to books in this country. but i must say, that was a popular book before the movie. it seems everyone had read it except me
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One of the reasons I generally don't like film adaptations of books is that they are rarely on par with one other. Unless the book is 25 pages long, it's almost impossible to condense it all into a 2 hour film and still retain accuracy.

If you don't pick up Da Vinci with any preconceived notions about it, it's mediocre at best. While there is some action on just about every page (good), Dan Brown's writing hasn't changed much over the several books he's written (bad). Despite what everyone has said, just remember this - it's fiction.
 
CorvusCamenarum said:
One of the reasons I generally don't like film adaptations of books is that they are rarely on par with one other. Unless the book is 25 pages long, it's almost impossible to condense it all into a 2 hour film and still retain accuracy.

If you don't pick up Da Vinci with any preconceived notions about it, it's mediocre at best. While there is some action on just about every page (good), Dan Brown's writing hasn't changed much over the several books he's written (bad). Despite what everyone has said, just remember this - it's fiction.
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i agree that books don't equal movies....books are far more detailed. but it's nice to see what going on in a movie.*

i did watch Da Vinci Code, but i didn't read it. and i don't believe it either
 
so anyone seen the movie? compared to the book it's not that good, but i guess all movies are like that (when they come from books).

i'm still glad i got to watch it though.

can't wait for the third book though.

anyone else into eragon?
 
Whoa, I saw the title of this thread and I said to myself, "I swear I posed in a thread like this before..." Looks like I was right! I havn't seen the movie and I kinda expected it to be not that great. I still stand my place for the books being good. I never got into the second one, but I loved the first. But that is coming from someone who hasn't read many other books where the author could have stolen themes or elements of the books from.
 
Zwhaler said:
Whoa, I saw the title of this thread and I said to myself, "I swear I posed in a thread like this before..." Looks like I was right! I havn't seen the movie and I kinda expected it to be not that great. I still stand my place for the books being good. I never got into the second one, but I loved the first. But that is coming from someone who hasn't read many other books where the author could have stolen themes or elements of the books from.
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yeah, i'm kinda the same. i don't read too much. but once i got into this one, i just couldn't put it down. the second one is even better!
 
Read Eragon way back when nobody had heard of it...I enjoyed it a lot. I don't really read fantasy, so I can't really tell how original the story was, but I felt that it was put together well, and the writing was fine. Not sure where these complaints about the level of the writing are coming from...I don't necessarily think they're well founded.
 
ya, i read Eragon when it first came out, and i loved the book. I enjoy reading fiction books a lot, but this one i liked almost more than harry potter. It seems not quite as childish as harry potter. Dont get me wrong, harry potter is great, but i think that those books are a little bit more simple than the Eragon series. I enjoyed the second one a lot also. And there will be a third one, hopefully it will be better than the second one. The second didnt have me reading as much as the first one. These are really good books tho. For those of you who have not seen the movie yet, let me warn you. It is very childish. They leave out tons of parts, change the story around, and not just a little, a good bit. So the movie is no where close to the book in my opinion, but i still wanted to see it, and will see the second one, just because i liked the books so much. Cant wait for the third book!
 
OutThere said:
Read Eragon way back when nobody had heard of it...I enjoyed it a lot. I don't really read fantasy, so I can't really tell how original the story was, but I felt that it was put together well, and the writing was fine. Not sure where these complaints about the level of the writing are coming from...I don't necessarily think they're well founded.
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glad to see other people who like the book as well :)

speedemonV12 said:
ya, i read Eragon when it first came out, and i loved the book. I enjoy reading fiction books a lot, but this one i liked almost more than harry potter. It seems not quite as childish as harry potter. Dont get me wrong, harry potter is great, but i think that those books are a little bit more simple than the Eragon series. I enjoyed the second one a lot also. And there will be a third one, hopefully it will be better than the second one. The second didnt have me reading as much as the first one. These are really good books tho. For those of you who have not seen the movie yet, let me warn you. It is very childish. They leave out tons of parts, change the story around, and not just a little, a good bit. So the movie is no where close to the book in my opinion, but i still wanted to see it, and will see the second one, just because i liked the books so much. Cant wait for the third book!
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i agree with you. the movie isn't near what it could be, and it kinda makes me mad, cuz it looks like they didn't try very hard with the movie. but if they make a second and third movie, i'll still see them as well, just because of the books.

i'm actually reading the second book again right now :)
 
As I said earlier, I read both books when they were first released. I've been reading this kind of book for probably 25 years and there were still a few original ideas in the first book. Not so much the second, which is not to say I didn't enjoy it. I did. The writer does have a long way to go to mature his style but I have faith that the third will be a fun read. I need to finish the story so whether he does a good job of it or not, I'll still buy it.

As for the movie, maybe I'll just wait to rent it. I'm not in that big a hurry for another slash job of a book I enjoyed.

Merry Christmas and have fun!!
 
MultiM said:
As I said earlier, I read both books when they were first released. I've been reading this kind of book for probably 25 years and there were still a few original ideas in the first book. Not so much the second, which is not to say I didn't enjoy it. I did. The writer does have a long way to go to mature his style but I have faith that the third will be a fun read. I need to finish the story so whether he does a good job of it or not, I'll still buy it.

As for the movie, maybe I'll just wait to rent it. I'm not in that big a hurry for another slash job of a book I enjoyed.

Merry Christmas and have fun!!
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i agree with you. glad to see someone who's been reading these kind of books still enjoy eragon. can't wait for the third book.

and you're right about the movie, but i just couldn't resist

Merry Christmas to you as well!
 
d wade said:
it annoys me cuz its a freaking Dragon movie and they are so creative they just changed the D with an E.
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LOL :D

the reason i think that's funny is i went into the bookstore to get the second book (before all the movie hype), and i didn't know how to pronounce "Eragon". and i didn't know the name of the second book (i had forgotten it), so i told the lady "do you have Eragon....you know, Dragon with an 'E' " she looked at me like an idiot and pointed to the teen section. i was so embarrassed
 
I haven't read it yet, my son (11) devoured the first two and is going nuts trying to find out when the third will be out and what it will be called. Its really driving him nuts.

Any book that can do that is a good book, by definition.

As for the alternatives, he's really not mature enough for Pern yet (I only read the first few, and decided they really ran out of steam after that, anyway) and as for being derivative there's no way he's ready for LoTR yet.

But in a few years he can read those and realize what influences one of his treasured childhood books drew from. Win-win in my opinion.
 
stcanard said:
I haven't read it yet, my son (11) devoured the first two and is going nuts trying to find out when the third will be out and what it will be called. Its really driving him nuts.

Any book that can do that is a good book, by definition.

As for the alternatives, he's really not mature enough for Pern yet (I only read the first few, and decided they really ran out of steam after that, anyway) and as for being derivative there's no way he's ready for LoTR yet.

But in a few years he can read those and realize what influences one of his treasured childhood books drew from. Win-win in my opinion.
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yeah, that is a good thing. hopefully it will lead you to read them as well ;)

but it's driving me nuts too about the third book
 
I listened to the audiobook on my drive back from Florida. I found it to be entertaining. As with any audiobook, the narration is as important as the story.

I listened to Ender's Game on the way down, which I found to be superior, but I also enjoyed Eragon.
 
jsw said:
I listened to the audiobook on my drive back from Florida. I found it to be entertaining. As with any audiobook, the narration is as important as the story.

I listened to Ender's Game on the way down, which I found to be superior, but I also enjoyed Eragon.
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i've never tried audiobooks before. i have a friend who loves them though. i should try them out one day

glad to see that Eragon was a good audiobook
 
there is supposed to be some type of announcement today about the series....i'm guessing about the third book. hopefully a release date

well the news is out. September 23, 2008 is the date for the 3rd book. and now there will be 4 books total! :eek:
 
i thought i would bring back this thread instead of starting a new one, but anyone getting Brisingr this weekend? (the third book of the series)
 
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