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 Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon G'day All,
I just got back from a cruise, and I finished Eragon: Inheritance whilst I was there. This is a topic responding to Spatzz's hate towards Christopher's writing of the book. I wasn't bothered to go search for the old topic, and I cannot remeber most of the reasons so you'll have to restate them so we can discuss it in the topic.
Personally, I didn't mind the ending, I do have a couple of gripes though:
1) Contradiction reguarding Arya's true name. In Eldest, Ornimous is discussing true names with Eragon and how to discover them, in this he says '....Elves instinctively know theirs'."... However in Inheritance Arya describes her true name being discovered after being left alone my Faolin.
2) The way in which Gabaltorix was slain - Could've been drawn-out more, have him cry in pain and really describe what he is feeling, and kill himself, other than Eragon killing him. On that note I felt more emotion and detail was needed in MANY parts in the book.
3) I always hated this about his writing style, the persistent-need-to-use-hypehns-and-dashes-for-nearly-every-word-and-name. It just grew tiresome, I remember I set of 3 of 4 pages where near EVERY word was hyphenated!
4) There was one more contradiction and I can't remember it.
It's relatively late at the moment so my spelling of the Character's names is wrong, and my arugments poor, but I'd lke to read the responses. Overall though, I enjoyed the book and am at peace with the ending, save some minor gaps in information and plot.
Timmeh
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon The ending was really bit of a let down and was not (i think) "clever" at all. Almost as if Paolini went....fuck it, and wrote what first came to his mind.
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon zhuang281 wrote: The ending was really bit of a let down and was not (i think) "clever" at all. Almost as if Paolini went....fuck it, and wrote what first came to his mind.
I also just remebered, I disliked how it was so similar to the other 'boss' fights in the books. He and Saphira fly away to an ancient cabin and are rewarded with things and then go and win the battle, mreh.
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon I think i said before that the book lacks true imagination. I mean stuff lik Eragon transforming to half elf half human, thats believable (Sort of). But his discovery in the 4th book that allowed him to stand a chance against Galbatorix is just one huge impossible deus ex machina...
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon zhuang281 wrote: I think i said before that the book lacks true imagination. I mean stuff lik Eragon transforming to half elf half human, thats believable (Sort of). But his discovery in the 4th book that allowed him to stand a chance against Galbatorix is just one huge impossible deus ex machina...
However, I do find it annoying that he gets all these gifts bestowed upon him and he still fails.
Timmeh
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon Good to see you! Was a bit concerned hearing about the Italian cruise that went down.
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon goett wrote: Good to see you! Was a bit concerned hearing about the Italian cruise that went down.
Thanks goett 
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon Spatzz, get your backside in this topic.
Timmeh
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon Mail wrote: Spatzz, get your backside in this topic.
Timmeh now that im in this topic, he might actually want to post here.
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon landswimmer wrote: Mail wrote: Spatzz, get your backside in this topic.
Timmeh now that im in this topic, he might actually want to post here.
Timmeh
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon Wait, you went on a cruise and read a book? Wow...
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon Jesus 2.0 wrote: Wait, you went on a cruise and read a book? Wow...
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon i was hoping at the ending of eragon he atleast hooked up with one of the girls arya or nausada but that didnt happen but i still liked the ending. 
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Re: Dear Spatzz; Reguarding Eragon Wasn't arsed reading comments, while Christophers writing style wasn't great, overall, the books were quality. Sure, there were bits to gripe at, there are in almost any book, and certainly if you take a certain stance while reading them you can find qualms if you look and judge, but I enjoyed then thoroughly.
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