Christopher Paolini and Eragon, anyone?

[be da veva]

Trust me, I have no intention of seeing the movie. Peter Jackson and company doing such a fine job on LOTR was a once in a lifetime thing, I believe. I don't expect to EVER see a movie adhere to a book so closely again. There were deviations, but so minor as to be written off completely.

I am a big fan of LoTR as books, but the movies were okay. Sure, they were great movies and I enjoy seeing them still, but the storyline.... It could've been better. A good movie from a book is the first Harry Potter.... (yes, I know, the size of the book blah blah blah.... but still, we've all seen, mostly, worst and ,rarelly, good adaptations of books on the big screen)

If you liked the LoTR books, try the Malazan Book of the Fallen serie by Steven Erikson. I'm the type of guy that re-reads the whole serie when a book comes out and believe me, everytime I read it, it was better...
It's almost a new kind of fantasy...

[Inchessi]

Eragon was neat, mainly because mama Paolini said Christopher could not go to college since he was only 15 or 16, she told him to write a book. The books are very fast reading, and a serious escape from reading regulations and laws. I really enjoyed the way the last book ended. He looked into repercussions’ that most experienced writers often ignore. I would like to expand on my meaning, but that would spoil it for some. I did see the movie, and the script adhered slightly more to the book than “I Robot.”

While LoTR and this series are in the same genre, can you compare the writings of an experienced older person to that of a first book teenager? It is an asinine comparison.

[Zardoz]

Having read the Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga and a lot similar works before Lord of the Rings, I found it a little derivative! But, And I hate to say, mostly slow and boring. I liked the movies though, they did a great job of condensing the ponderous storylines in the books.

Eragon seems to be influenced by many of the same themes, albeit by way of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, But you have to concede that the book is quite an achievement a teenage author.

[ohiopiper]

If we're honest about it, what, since the tales told around campfires by cavemen, isn't derivative? The characters and settings change, but the themes are recurring.