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Selik



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:32 pm    Post subject: Eragon Reply with quote

Just seen the trailer for the film and it looks amazing! I'm definately up for seeing this one. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

have you read the book?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, no. Laughing Have to admit i've not read it, though i've been looking at it for a while, it just wasn't on my list of most wanted.
Film still looks cool though. lol
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i cannot remeber all the details but i think the lad who wrote it was 15 at the time and home schooled, lives out in the american mid west out in the middle on nowhere!!

not a bad achivement at that age
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, if you've got it.....
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check out www.alagaesia.com for more details though basically Parmenion is right - I'm hoping that Eldest which is staring at me accusingly from the bookshelf will be better than Eragon, nuff said Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My understanding is it's a star wars rip-off set in fantasy which his mommy and daddy got published for him - they're publishers. Nepotism at its best.

But the trailer does look good and dragons are always cool..!!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i haven't read it but a friend has. he said it was very good and definately worth a read.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drizzt wrote:
My understanding is it's a star wars rip-off set in fantasy which his mommy and daddy got published for him - they're publishers. Nepotism at its best.

But the trailer does look good and dragons are always cool..!!


Not only Star Wars, also Lord ofthe Rings Confused , actually the quy stole from nearly every famous Fantasy/Sci-Fi-book, and in Eldestthere are several pages with descriptions of the love-life of ants Rolling Eyes apart from that it has a tragic love-story between an elf (which is a bad Tolkien-clone) and a human, a wise old guy, very evil villians (who are surprisingly related to the main character) and a lot of other stuff I've readsomewhere else much better.
No I didn't really like the book Laughing , I might watch the third part, as I always want to know the end.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ah this is one of those that my partner has read and keeps pushing in my face telling me to read everytime i finish a book Very Happy She tells me it really is very good but for some odd reason theres just something holding me back from reading it Confused

The film looks interesting although i would want to read the book before seeing it.....
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I liked the books, despite blatant rips from Tolkien, Star Wars and definately Anne McCaffery. However, it's probably impossible to write a fantasy book without drawing on something that someone else wrote, particularly when including elves. (Though James battled that one and emerged triumphant Very Happy )

I will probably go and see the film but i expect to be disappointed. most films of books are disappointing; League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Stormbreaker and Captain Corelli's Mandolin being cases in point.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="Tyrael"but for some odd reason theres just something holding me back from reading it Confused [/quote]

That's exactly the same with me. I keep looking at it in the shops when I have money and yet I just don't seem to have the urge to pick it up and buy it.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Minor rant warning.

Seen the trailer for this now. It would look good if i hadn't read the books, but as i have all i can say is: HOW THE HELL DID THEY MANAGE TO GET SO MUCH WRONG?!?! They seen to have changed everything, we aren't ever supposed to see Galbatorix and Durza is just wrong!
ARGGGGGGGH! I hate it when they wreak books i like!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*hands Grace a cookie*

Well said!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw the trailer myself. All I'll say is, Sha-Kaan would have those dragons for breakfast. Wouldn't be enough left over even for elvenses, let alone lunch. Reckon he's five times as long at least. And meaner. And with hotter breath. And more teeth.

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