wrong way
Hello!
It seames to be that in Germany you can find no Community discussing “Eragon” critically. So I’am here now ... English is not my own language - please be lenient towards me ;-)
First time I read this books I was interested because Paolini was a young writer with the same dreams I had in the time I was 15-18 (and today, hehe) ... publishing my own book sometimes ... But then, after the whole book 1 and the half of book 2 I was angry about him. Why do I think about my own special ideas for my story - when you can be published and make a bestseller with those pieces form other works without a soul an fire in it??? Some days I thought that I THINK WRONG, that I should write a "normal fantasy story with the typical boring plot line and typical boring characters" and kick the special ones out of my head.
Phu, I'am glad that I'am over it ;-)
But I am afraid of one thing: that others, teenagers, will think the same way! Imagine there are a lot of young writers who have a new shining example to follow?!? To write like Paolini to get published easy ...
Oh, today ... I told my colleague in the bookshop (she sells the children books) that I gave up the Paolini books because of frustration an anger an the mistakes there. And she said: yes, she also had found some mistakes, but I can’t raise a high claim, it’s a book for twelve year old kids ... Oh, what?? I expect the same from childrens or adult books - that they are good narrations with living characters, that they are comprehensible and proofreaded. And this two books are the onliest in my life (I am 30 and I read many children books to) which I want to edit with a red pencil an cut out many pages an details.
It seames to be that in Germany you can find no Community discussing “Eragon” critically. So I’am here now ... English is not my own language - please be lenient towards me ;-)
First time I read this books I was interested because Paolini was a young writer with the same dreams I had in the time I was 15-18 (and today, hehe) ... publishing my own book sometimes ... But then, after the whole book 1 and the half of book 2 I was angry about him. Why do I think about my own special ideas for my story - when you can be published and make a bestseller with those pieces form other works without a soul an fire in it??? Some days I thought that I THINK WRONG, that I should write a "normal fantasy story with the typical boring plot line and typical boring characters" and kick the special ones out of my head.
Phu, I'am glad that I'am over it ;-)
But I am afraid of one thing: that others, teenagers, will think the same way! Imagine there are a lot of young writers who have a new shining example to follow?!? To write like Paolini to get published easy ...
Oh, today ... I told my colleague in the bookshop (she sells the children books) that I gave up the Paolini books because of frustration an anger an the mistakes there. And she said: yes, she also had found some mistakes, but I can’t raise a high claim, it’s a book for twelve year old kids ... Oh, what?? I expect the same from childrens or adult books - that they are good narrations with living characters, that they are comprehensible and proofreaded. And this two books are the onliest in my life (I am 30 and I read many children books to) which I want to edit with a red pencil an cut out many pages an details.