I think Paolini is getting bored with his own series. Just look at his interviews on Shurtugal—he went from completely enthusiastic, long, almost essay-type responses to short, clipped answers that tell you what you need to know, no more, no less.

At any rate, I’m not too excited.

I, surprisingly, am. No idea why. Reinvigorates the fandom, I guess.

<3 I wish that would happen.

Actually, there was a lone chapter in Brisingr that I actually enjoyed. The one where Eragon goes around giving people gold and apologising for being a dick and screwing up their lives.

Oh, and that bit where Sloan calls him out.

Basically, any scene where Eragon is ragged on is good with me.

I believe he used magic to find trace amounts of gold around him and drew it all together to make… gold… stuff. I don’t remember what form it was in, maybe discs or something? Anyway, he gave some to Roran and Katrina as a wedding present, I recall, but I don’t remember what he did with the rest of it.

Also, on Book Four: yeah, nobody has any clue when that thing’s coming out. Apparently the first draft is about finished. So we’ll see. And no, no one knows what the title will be.

And no, no one knows what the title will be.

I’m betting on something that contains a lot of consonants… and precisely one vowel.

@ Klutor: Are you kidding? Vowels are for sissies. I’ll bet PaoPao goes the artistic route and has no vowels.

And it’ll probably translate into something stupid, like Hero or Eragon is Awesome.

I’ve read all of all three of them, but that was when I was a fan. It’s ridiculous when I think back on it. I had to read the summaries of the other two in the beginning of Brisingr before I read it because I couldn’t remember hardly anything that had happened. I did kind of like Elva, though. She was creepy and didn’t say, “Oh, Eragon, it’s okay that you cursed me because you are so awesome.” She was not too happy with him.

So I can’t even imagine how it goes even worse from there.

Ho ho ho.

You’re missing out.

I believe he used magic to find trace amounts of gold around him and drew it all together to make… gold… stuff. I don’t remember what form it was in, maybe discs or something? Anyway, he gave some to Roran and Katrina as a wedding present, I recall, but I don’t remember what he did with the rest of it.

And the Varden is broke?

I think book 4 is called either the Empire or Eldunari. I dunno, I merely looked up “inheritance cycle book 4 cover” on Google Image

I just gave up about a third of the way through Brisingr, I don’t know how(or why) I made it through Eldest. That lace thing didn’t bother me as much as it should have, because given all the other ridiculous oversights in previous books, why would I expect Paolini to understand something like the relationship between scarcity and value?

That said, I really don’t care about the fourth book at all anymore, because I don’t care about Paolini anymore. Sure, he’s a lousy writer and his books are bad, but I blame that more on the people around him than he himself. He’s just an earnest, clueless geek doing what he thinks is correct, and the people who should know better enable him instead of saying, hey, Chris, this is bad and you need to fix it. Can’t bring myself to hate a guy like that.

Did he really? It was my understanding that the Brisingr ending was sort of a mash-up between New Hope and Empire, except Vader offers power to Yoda instead of Luke, and kills him when he declines.

I might take a whack at reading it when it comes out, if I hear that there are genuine surprises.

I’m also kind of interested in the conclusion, and apparently I power through very well because I read all three pretty easily. But I must bow down to Jeni for reading the same one three times. I also read Twilight, but I decided that I can’t read anymore of that series.

Sure, he’s a lousy writer and his books are bad, but I blame that more on the people around him than he himself. He’s just an earnest, clueless geek doing what he thinks is correct, and the people who should know better enable him instead of saying, hey, Chris, this is bad and you need to fix it.

In other news, someone said above that Nasuada’s meant to be the token black woman, but are token minorities really token if they’re not there to be tokens? Aren’t they just minorities then?

Some people claim that at least the first book was somewhat good but I couldnt even get through that. Maybe part of it had something to do with me hearing how crap the series is which made me want to hate it, but I’m pretty sure I really did get bored and it had nothing to do with that. So yeah I got up to somewhere in the Dwarf kingdom place.

After that I have read every chapter spork of all the books by Kippurbird on livejournal. Problem is she sporks them so damn slowly. She is SO FREAKING CLOSE to the end of book 3! So the choice is to either wait forever and ever to read her sporkings of book 4, or to borrow it and actually read it completely out of curiosity of what the hell Paolini is going to do next and because I like crap things so that I can feel superior knowing how crap they are. No way in hell am I going to buy it.

Does the world even care about Inheritance enough anymore for book 4 to be significant? When it finally comes out am I going to hear tons of stuff about it and see people reading it everywhere? I remember book 3 being somewhat of a big deal when it came out.

Does the world even care about Inheritance enough anymore for book 4 to be significant?

Honestly, my opinion is no. Where I was for Brisingr, they tried to make a big deal out of it, but I think it fell flat on its face.

Nope, I’m done with the critiquing/tearing. It’s gone too far. While I like to discuss Inheritance flaws, that does not mean it can be applied to every book out there. Eragon was an important example of marketing.

I’ll continue with Inheritance, but that’s it.

Besides, the age has passed already anyway. I’m only here for the food and company.

Nope, I’m done with the critiquing/tearing. It’s gone too far.

I’m with you on this. I used to love sporks and such, but now… I dunno, they just don’t do anything for me. I read the Kippurbird ones when they’re new, but other than that, it just feels like my time would be better spent on my own work, or reading/watching good works of fiction.

Oh, my mistake. Sorry. But still, I’ve only read it once, so you still win.

This feels a bitter victory. ;_;

Rgnsthwsmsthrvr.

I can’t help but imagine that, should book 4 have a title like that, all the people saying (or trying to say) the title will wake up Cthulhu, and he’ll be pissed about all the people saying nasty things about his mother.

I dont think I was ever too into it. I just read all of Mark Reads Twilight and Kippurbird’s Inheritance sporkings so that I could basically know everything that happens in the books without actually reading them. And sometimes they helped me with how to write better, and sometimes with the case of Mark Reads Twilight it was really interesting when he decided to open up and talk about his effed up history. Mark Reads Harry Potter was pretty fun because he actually enjoyed it (obviously).

Oh maybe I was a bit into ImpishIdea’s Twilight Sporkings mainly for the statue and cream count.

Phew, and I thought I was the only one who felt this way.

Apparently, not by a long shot…

To throw a spanner in the works, our site motto is ‘better writing through the deconstruction of Inheritance and Twilight’.

In which case, to put it bluntly, our article output would drop to about ten percent of what it is now. Perhaps less.

I believe so.

Hee hee. Sounds like us. Which is probably why it is.

I would write one, but I don’t feel qualified and have no clue what to write one about.

I’m not really qualified either, but I want to contribute something.

I feel bad about being here for so long and never actually contributing to the site. I was thinking about writing an article, but I’m nervous because don’t have an area of expertise that I’m really comfortable with >.<

Wouldn’t there be some thread for that kind of stuff already in existance? Do we even need a thread for it if there isnt one?

As for book 4, it will be somewhat interesting seeing what the hell Paolini is going to do with it. It would be fantastic if he learned the error of his ways but most of the damage is already done. Kippurbird who does the good sporkings of the series met Paolini and had a chat about writing or something but didnt have the heart to tell him she thinks his books are horrible (which they are), though she did give him her card which has her sporking website on it. So it would be wonderful if he actually went on it and read it all, not to offend him but to like I said let him see the error of his ways. If he did go to her site I bet as soon as he got wind of her reviews being negative, he stopped reading.

I’ve read that chapter about the werecat king that was released early and it has solidified my hatred for Paolini’s creation of werecats. Theyre so stupid. Well to me they are. I bet there’s some people who, while knowing the books are bad, think the werecats arent that bad. But I just hated how Solumbum (Serious Ass) gave a list of things that are going to come/have come later in the books.

Should we make a thread about this so that this thread can get back on topic?

The very fact that it’s gone “off-topic” is indicative of the state of Inheritance: that there is nothing to say.

Really, it doesn’t matter. If we were a bigger forum, maybe, but we’re just chatting. There’s no need to sacrifice productive chat for the sake of sticking to “topic”.

Jeni, I salute you.

You shouldn’t have said that, my head is growing at an alarming rate now.

;D

When the fourth book comes out. ;D

At least you did it subtly, Steph.

Man, all this talk about sporkings make me wondering if I should continue the T&P series…

Oh, book 4 is going to be… well I’ll let Asahel get it and then tell me what it’s about.

Aww, Puppet. That’s so true :)

D’aww.

There’s your first mistake in Life.

No. No, it’s not. One needs to familiarise oneself with the incredible levels of stupidity that are sometimes publicly displayed by one’s fellow man.

I’m just starting to focus more on my own writing, rather than Paolini’s or Meyer’s.