Paolini's Pre-emptive Strike
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Liosse de Velishaf
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Of course he can. You can have anyone say whatever you want. The question is, should you? I mean, in a YA fantasy, while I might look at such a line askance, I certainly wouldn't quit reading because of it. On the other hand, it's obviously put me out of the flow of the story if I'm giving it odd glances.
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I guess if the particular character that utters the line exists purely for comic relief, then I think it could actually be quite funny.
However, I think in the Inheritance trilogy... oops, I mean cash in, oops, I mean cycle, the line is meant to be serious.
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There's a beer tie-in? That could make reading a more enjoyable experience....
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I'm pretty sure there must have been similar lines in Buffy, where the writing is outstanding...proving it's not just the words or the story, it's what you do with them!
There's a beer tie-in? That could make reading a more enjoyable experience....
yeah, I'd have to be drunk to buy and read another one.
(Of course, you know it was supposed to be "sales" and not "ales"--which is significantly less interesting.)
Instead of bothering me reading the third book I read this:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/DogEared/index.php?showtopic=1552
A hundred times shorter and far more interesting and enterteining
http://z8.invisionfree.com/DogEared/index.php?showtopic=1552
A hundred times shorter and far more interesting and enterteining
How true. His parents were former NRM (cult) members. Church Universal and Triumphant to be more precise:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news1/an010723-01.html
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/c/churchtriumph/cutbook.htm
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0966621301/?tag=absolutewritedm-20
They have since defected.
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One of the criticisms in Eldest is that the tree-hugging Vegetarian Atheist hippies that nothing of what they do is wrong while the hero reprehends some people for killing an animal while he applaudes the elves killing a man "because elves loves their trees so much"
And again, in the Fourth book Eragon meets an invisible god and someone actually critizes the elves for being too perfect so seems that Paolini googled himself.
*Shrug* It's better than the time he is in wonder at bacteria in the soil, yet happily kills swathes of the Generic Evil Minions with a thought.
He was just an innocent lumberjack... or that is what I guess, I don't know; he just exists to remind us how Elves have license to kill...
No matter how good a young writer may or may not be, they're often limited by their lack of life experience. Paolini could have used that excuse for his first novel, but the others?
hey don't lump all of us young writers as having a lack of experience. i am young and have had a lot of experience.
it is due to the fact that i cant stand more than an hour of video games at a time, so i go and find other things to do.
it is due to the fact that i cant stand more than an hour of video games at a time, so i go and find other things to do.
Liosse de Velishaf
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It's not "lumping". In general, most younger writers do have less experience. You'd have to have a pretty packed life to beat out someone twenty or thirty years older than you(this is the hypothetical "you", by the way). How many jobs have you worked? How many tragedies have you been through? How many places have you gone? How many fields have you done significant work in? Of course, there are plenty of young people with a lot of experience, and older people with very little, but on the average, now that's a different story.
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