Well... they tried

Well... they tried.

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i've seen worse
reminded me of the old 80s fantasy movies
throw in Irons and Malkovich and I feel I got my money's worth

It's honestly better than the absolute trashfire that is the actual book series.

I only read up to the first chapter of the first book. A little ‘colourful’ with the prose, last I remember, but decent enough. The rest can’t be that bad can it?

It is, without exaggerating, nearly unreadable. The main character is a fucking unlikable psychopath. The overall plot is ripped straight from Star Wars and tons of the specific details are stolen from other, better fantasy series here and there. That "colourful prose" you mentioned gets more and more needlessly complex and eye sprainingly awful. It's actually kind of fascinating how much of a mess it is. There's some fun blogs on the internet that break it down chapter by chapter and analyze it to get to the core of how shit is really is

Thanks for the tip, user. I always do hear bad stuff about it. Now I get more reasons why.

>Arya isn't even an elf
>there are no elves at all
No. They didn't try at all.

What's worse, this or the Dungeons&Dragons movie?

D&D had heart at least.
This just has Jeremy Irons and nit even his night could carry it.

Don't think about it too much. It's a great stepping stone book into better fantasy books. I sure enjoyed it as a teen... except last book. Then it just went to shit with characters i simply didn't care about, skipped the chapters even

There is a Doctor Who reference in the 4th one.

D&D was kino

the dragon was hot as fuck tho

>that second book where the author realizes he actually wanted his self-insert to be a half-elf so he just makes him a half-elf and you have to deal with it

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>There's some fun blogs on the internet that break it down chapter by chapter and analyze it to get to the core of how shit is really is

I've got a weekend to waste reading stupid shit, link some

>The author discovers atheism

Look up eragon sporkings by Kippur...they're a fun read

>It's a great stepping stone book into better fantasy books.
Fantasy fiction isn't organical chemistry, you can just start with good books like LotR.

The only good thing was the small "they aren't bad guys, why am killing them?" in the second book after he changes his fists I think.

Lol they just replaced the D with an E!!!

No it isn't, it's just a more bland and boring version of it. If you didn't like the novel then the movie can't offer shit except for special effects

He literally stole everything from lord of the rings and asoiaf - names are the same with one letter changed, etc

LotR is a lot harder to read than Eragon with grammar, choice of words and so on

>no Eragorn, I am your mother's other bastard son as you see, she was wedded to Brom but was then raped by Galbatorix
I don't remember the exact details but it was something retarded like this.

I re-read this after... countless years, man I didn't remember the writing and overall plot being this bad.

HP books is the same shit right? I'm actually thinking about never re-reading them just to not taint the memories as a teen.

Actually Bron was the bull for her original husband

Galbatorix is asexual

HP are okay for kids, say what you will but Rowling sets up the early books as mystery novels pretty well. The books only end up being trash when Harry leaves school and there isn't a mystery to investigate anymore.

Did they though?

>After many bloody battles and much heartache, the Varden and their allies finally attacked Galbatorix at Urû'baen and Eragon fought his greatest enemy once and for all. After defeating Murtagh in single combat, having Murtagh betray the dark king directly afterwards, Eragon fought Galbatorix head on and overpowered the ancient enemy of his order by casting an Empathy Spell on him. Feeling all the pain, suffering, and misery he had caused over the last hundred years, Galbatorix was driven to commit suicide, destroying a part of his palace and nearly killing Eragon and his companions in the process.
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Eragon
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Wait a second...

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It's literally Star Wars with a different setting. I can't blame the author though, he was 15 years old when he wrote the book and for a 15 year old it's not bad.

this is the bookseries that has a mysterious deus ex machina character that never gets explored or explained to the point that the author apologized in the afterwords

Kek, the author actually took Gurm's tax advice to heart. Imagine being a kid and having to read about this shit.
>A year after his departure from Alagaesia, the elves and Eragon had settled on Arngor Mountain, a mountain in the Eastern Reaches, as the home for a new generation of Riders. However, he soon found himself busy dealing with suppliers and sorting through the massive amount of administrative work needed to get their new home up and running.

Lets see if I remember correctly

Murtagh was Galbatorix's slave because the former had his True Name™ in the Ancient Language™ but the only way to break free of the slavery is to change character. something that happen mid-fight with Eragon.

Eragon learn the True Name™ of Magic in the Ancient Language™ like Galbatorix did. The one that knows the name as unlimited power...Deux Ex Machima and give him feelings

The poor bastard made Galbatorix such unnecessary powerful that simple fuck up the ending

>Dude what if the Jedi were dragon riders and Ben Kenobi was named Bronn

Wait, isn't that from the new short stories released this year?

Not a kid anymore

>Taxman inquires about Aragorn's tax policy
>never actually explains how taxation or logistics of surviving winter works in ASoIaF.

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