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Yes!

Quite.

Undecided.

No, they're pretty bad.

No, they're terrible.

Don't care. / View poll.

[inteuniso]

I like to believe they're set in the same world as Stardust, and that their swords are actually made out of girls that fell from the stars. Thus, you have fairybone swords!

So what you're saying is, the Dragon Riders in the Eragon books actually capture and forcibly breed Stargirls, and then harvest their young for bones and other resources for crafts? Shit, these guys are almost as dwarfy as we are! They must be destroyed.

Not to mention they're voluntarily flying dwarves! Not bridgeapulted! Crazyness! they should stay underground like all the sensible dwarves do.
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Hell, the Dwarves in this universe make open-air fortresses, and don't even use magma! Blasphemy!

[Aklyon]

I like to believe they're set in the same world as Stardust, and that their swords are actually made out of girls that fell from the stars. Thus, you have fairybone swords!

So what you're saying is, the Dragon Riders in the Eragon books actually capture and forcibly breed Stargirls, and then harvest their young for bones and other resources for crafts? Shit, these guys are almost as dwarfy as we are! They must be destroyed.

Not to mention they're voluntarily flying dwarves! Not bridgeapulted! Crazyness! they should stay underground like all the sensible dwarves do.

Hell, the Dwarves in this universe make open-air fortresses, and don't even use magma! Blasphemy!

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[Pathos]

I don't. Was that in the first two? I read both of them back when I was 10-12 and loved them.

I think it was. Either that or Brisingr. He fights Murtagh and completely forgets the ring he has which is filled to the brim with magical energy.

He does this on multiple occassions, actually. It's just stupid.

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I think this has to be the only appropriate use of "Fix'd" I've ever seen.

[ein]

I call it the video game "I have a big sword" mindset.
Something I've noticed in myself, whenever I play a video game with an effective melee weapon, I tend to forget I can blast away all three of those guys with a mighty fireball.
Only game I've not done this was Fable II.
But it had magic that summoned swords.

[Jackrabbit]

I have a habit of forgetting about my rocket launcher in Half Life but that's about it, really.

[Karnewarrior]

Heh, in MM6, it was the complete opposite. With Armageddon and Power Cure, you rule the school. And slaughter towns in about 50 mana! It's that cheap!

[Pathos]

I call it the video game "I have a big sword" mindset.
Something I've noticed in myself, whenever I play a video game with an effective melee weapon, I tend to forget I can blast away all three of those guys with a mighty fireball.
Only game I've not done this was Fable II.
But it had magic that summoned swords.

To be honest, a lot of other things in the books remind me of typical RPGs. Like all the NPCs being basically unimportant cannonfodder, with the lead character justifying his slaughter of poor, mindcontrolled mooks with "They deserved it for being evil."

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Perhap's it's nostalgia, but I didn't think they were that bad. Certainly not great, probably not good, but not actually bad. I'd say that they inhabit the lower end of mediocre.

[Cthulhu]

I like how the Eragon Sporking guy proves that Brom is Galbatorix.  I feel embarrassed that I never noticed how much exposition was completely thrown in with no explanation of why the people knew that.

Also how Galbatorix isn't evil.

[Jackrabbit]

Wut. This sounds moronic, was this in the third book?

[Bandages]

don't think that actually happened.

Also: I remember thinking, even when I was 13 or whatever, when I read the first book "Gee, every chapter ends with him BLACKING THE HELL OUT"

it was like the author had no idea how to write smooth transitions so that every time a chapter ended, it ended with Eragon sleeping or getting knocked out.

[Pathos]

MOTHERFUCKER TAKES ALL THE FUCKING CREDIT. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.

[RedWarrior0]

Anyone else notice how he started writing the books when he was, what, 16? Also, my English teacher in 7th grade liked the opening sentence of the first book.

Oh yeah, Gil'ead and Gil-Galad. One's a city and the other is an elf.

[Jackrabbit]

I wish I could get a book published at 16.

[Pathos]

Anyone else notice how he started writing the books when he was, what, 16?

I wish I could get a book published at 16.

I also wish I had parents who would be willing to give all their money up for me to publish books that would be unpublishable otherwise.