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14625393 No.14625393 [Reply] [Original]

how did a 13 year old write one of the greatest fantasy series of all times?

>> No.14625397

>>14625393
Greatest? It's a LOTR ripoff...

>> No.14625405

>>14625393
Because he ripped off the greatest fantasy book of all time

>> No.14625408

>>14625397
>>14625405
Paolini surpasses Tolkien in the first book by a wide margin

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>>14625408
Sure, Chris, sure.

>> No.14626714

>>14625424
cope

>> No.14626737

>>14625393
Hey! You're new here, right? The way things work on /lit/ is, posts like this are best addressed to /sffg/. That is:
>>14611881

No worries, though; and best wishes!

>> No.14626748

>>14626737
Eragon is masterful literary metafiction, it doesn't belong with that garbage

>> No.14626759

>>14625393
It was literally just a kid's Star Wars fanfiction set in medieval times. Like you said he was 13 when he wrote it so I can hardly call him a hack though. Good for him that it sold well. Just like Twilight was just Harry Potter fanfiction and 50 Shades was Twilight fanfiction, although those were written by adults.

>> No.14626765

>>14626714
>cope
That doesn't work when you're so obviously a midwit.

>> No.14626766

>>14626737

Cringe the post

>> No.14626769

>>14626765
maybe you can talk like that when you've written the greatest fantasy series of all time like Paolini did but until then stfu

>> No.14626792

>>14626766
The verb "cringe" doesn't take an object, kiddo. Look, I know English grammar can be frustrating. But you'll eventually get it after your acne clears up, I promise!

>> No.14626804

>>14626792
You are a raging queer lol

>> No.14626806

>>14626804
Projection: the post.

>> No.14626878

>>14626792
That's a noun, dipshit.

>> No.14626887

>>14626878
In that case, "Cringe the post" is not grammatical English.

>> No.14626894

>>14626759
>Just like Twilight was just Harry Potter fanfiction
Explain.

>> No.14626905

>>14626887
It's obviously a noun followed by an appositive, but it's also obviously not a sentence, so if you're too midwit to understand its constituent parts, you should still be able to recognize that a noun and a modifying noun phrase are not a sentence and, therefore, shouldn't be judged as such.

>> No.14626923

>>14625408
Based.

>> No.14626955

did anything else of his pop off or did it die when he wrote the finale and it was fucking garbage

>> No.14627011

>>14625393
First and second book were great. But later very hard to read. Should have overcome his writersblock earlier. And not sold the film license this early.

>> No.14627041

>>14627011
This. Like eragon or not, paolini wrote a pretty elusive world with interesting places and the potential to make a decent movie saga. What we got was a car wreck that had eragon written in shit over it.

>> No.14627057

>>14626792

Cringe

>> No.14627061

>>14627011
>>14627041

Paolini is a fat lazy slob who"s single achievement has been to write a mediocre young adult series.
Since that time he hasnt produced a single thing. Not a day of work. Better kys paolini, i know youre in here

>> No.14627066

>>14625393
The child wrote the story, but it was vastly edited by adults.

Imagine being on /lit/ and not knowing how these things work.

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>>14625393
I really wouldn't call it the greatest fantasy series of all times. Like not even close. It was my first real 'high fantasy' book I have read and I enjoyed it well. The problem is that its just a story written by a 13 year old though very high polished in editing. Like the story is pretty much all predictable and really wasn't groundbreaking in no way, shape or form. One big issue I had was the fantasy tropes fanservice the book provided numerous times. Like cliches you would find even in isekais regularly. Stuff like, Mc has a special sword (or I guess makes it himself in the later books), the fate of the world rests on his shoulders, is trained by his teacher on the road to adventure, he is the last of some important order, he gruesomly takes revenge on the murderers of his family, etc.

>> No.14627094

>>14625393
The first book is barely ok when you're 13 as well and it's the best book of the series

>> No.14627780

>>14627085
Yeah but what about the hot elf waifu

>> No.14628529
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14628529

There is literally nothing wrong with the Eragon series, certainly not in comparison with the rest of YA fantasy. There's nothing wrong with having the same plot as Star Wars (and the similarities aren't really as substantial as they're made out to be). There aren't really that many coming-of-age plots anyway.

/lit/ only hates this because they think their oh-so-clever-and-sophisticated writing is more deserving of money and are salty that some loser managed to sell a 'worse' book series, while they trudge home from university to a pile of unpublished manuscripts.

Hint: the objective is to get people to buy your book and this guy succeeded.