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Re: Favorite Book
When did she say that?
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A while back, about a month or two after the release of the 7th book. It was totally pointless.
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I wonder how that would help publicity.
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Because it brought back the topic of Harry Potter after it had kinda died down.
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Interesting...
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Although she certainly realized that it would bring back some of the dying publicity, I think she also was trying to make a point- that you can't tell from someone's behavior what their orientation is, and it really has no bearing on anything besides their private life (in fact, I'm pretty sure she said something to that effect). In a way, though, she was going against that very point by bringing it up as a major issue...
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]My friend actually just started me on that! She lent me the first book and I've only gone through about 3/4 of the book (because of SciOly, go figure). Not my cuppa tea, but an interesting book nonetheless. I personally felt it was directed towards middle-schoolers and maybe some intellectual elementary kids, rather than high-schoolers. I got a little bored with it.oxfordcrew wrote:You, being science people, should so check out the Maximum Ride series!!! It is about these kids who have scientifically mutated. I also love the Percy Jackson Series!!
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I agree with you. Also, i think the way he writes is completely clichéed (hope i put the accent in the right place there). I mean, it's hard to get through the books just because some of the ideas are just so recycled from other places.Phenylethylamine wrote:Has anyone else noticed that Paolini writes like he's got a high school English teacher over his shoulder? "Make sure to put two adjectives for every noun! Use a thesaurus!" Don't get me wrong, I liked the books pretty well, but the fact that his characters never send a letter, they always send a 'missive'- that kind of clinched it for me. Repetition isn't any better just because the word is less well-known; in fact, it's worse, because it draws your focus in a way that the word 'letter' never would.
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It's obvious that Paolini is a young author. His ideas come from a wide variety of fiction books, and the Eragon books are strangely similar to the Lord of the Rings.denmarksoccer wrote:I agree with you. Also, i think the way he writes is completely clichéed (hope i put the accent in the right place there). I mean, it's hard to get through the books just because some of the ideas are just so recycled from other places.Phenylethylamine wrote:Has anyone else noticed that Paolini writes like he's got a high school English teacher over his shoulder? "Make sure to put two adjectives for every noun! Use a thesaurus!" Don't get me wrong, I liked the books pretty well, but the fact that his characters never send a letter, they always send a 'missive'- that kind of clinched it for me. Repetition isn't any better just because the word is less well-known; in fact, it's worse, because it draws your focus in a way that the word 'letter' never would.
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Theyre very unoriginal. But unfortunately, Im forced to buy the books just so I can see what happens. Stupid sequels.
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