Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26065062-20160713125226/@comment-26350705-20160717035520

ChazmanianDevil wrote: Patrick.vtap wrote: Elestan Larcalaite wrote: Well, the books were meant to be Paolini's try on writing a classic fantasy epic, and basically all of those follow the same mould, so yeah. And you have to realise that he started writing this when he was 16 years old and now holds the world record for youngest author of a bestseller, so you gotta give him some credit. There were some "Fantasy Epics" that take a different mold and are actually original. Eragon has little to no originality. Dwarves, Elves, Dragons, where have we heard all of those again? Ah yes, Tolkien. Paolini completely rips Tolkien off. He adds a few fancy words and tries to pass it off as original.

The thing that bothers be the most is Eragon himself. A concieted, most of the times quite idiotic, unoriginal character. I read the first book and then once I finished never touched it again.

As I do not have the time to completely explain why the Inheritance Cycle is utter shite, I will direct you to one of my favorite links.

http://impishidea.com/criticism/everything-wrong-with-eragon

It completely dissects the book to expost its horrid and rotten core. This isn't a dissection of a book. This is a really bored person who went through and took individual sentences out of the book to make them look stupid, when I could find equivalents of most of them in LOTR or Harry Potter or any other popular book. I could tell that from the anaylisis of the first two chapters. To agree with Chaz, you could do this to any book and have similar results.