Brisingr: Part I
VERY VERY MINOR SPOILERS FROM FIRST THREE CHAPTERS
Note to self: Next time you're having problems giving a story a decent opener, just start off with a bloody pagan ceremony full of dismembering and cannibalism.
"Wet blotches quickly sullied the virgin cloth."
Say WHAT?
I think it's really interesting how Eragon and Co. become more and more well-spoken as the books go along. Like, they all sounded kinda like hicks in the first one, now they're all "Conjunctions were created by Galbatorix" and "Aye is the new Yes". The descriptions get more and more poetic too, but that I live with because when you're developing as a writer like CP is, stuff like that just happens. Your style changes. But it is up to YOU to keep your characters' speech patterns consistent.
Vote Murtagh '08.
"Perhaps what Murtagh enjoyed was watching another person shoulder the same terrible burden he had carried his whole life."
I totally was THINKING this sentence right before I read it….kinda creepy.
"A fountain of amber motes billowed and swirled…"
Me: "OMG I CAN HAZ MOTES AND SELL IN MAI NP SHOP????"
I love love LOVE the booze. Hahahaha. "Omg can't angst, must drink raspberry mead. Otays now I angst moar."
"The stone exhibited a profound lack of movement."
Eragon's Three Big Rules for Using Magic:
1. Don't take on projects that are beyond your abilities
2. Don't try to bring back the dead
3. Don't try to unmake anything
I love how Eragon and Roran are basically on a male-bonding weekend retreat: booze, chats around the fire about their love lives, therapy sessions…."Oh, and we gotta rescue your gf in the morning, btw."
Dang I never wanna see Saphira try to kiss Arya. Wheww.
"Death is a part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness."
"Cheer up! You may not have to worry about living forever. Galbatorix, Murtagh, the Ra'zac, or even one of the Empire's soldiers could put steel through us at any moment."
Okay did this sentence seriously just happen?
"They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity, and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody."
That's like….I'm not even sure what that's like. But I'm pretty sure 47.8 brain cells just esploded.
Boys are dumb. Leave em alone for five minutes, they start stripping and comparing bruises/cuts/scars.
Last but not least: Eragon really needs to get over the vegetarian thing.
Note to self: Next time you're having problems giving a story a decent opener, just start off with a bloody pagan ceremony full of dismembering and cannibalism.
"Wet blotches quickly sullied the virgin cloth."
Say WHAT?
I think it's really interesting how Eragon and Co. become more and more well-spoken as the books go along. Like, they all sounded kinda like hicks in the first one, now they're all "Conjunctions were created by Galbatorix" and "Aye is the new Yes". The descriptions get more and more poetic too, but that I live with because when you're developing as a writer like CP is, stuff like that just happens. Your style changes. But it is up to YOU to keep your characters' speech patterns consistent.
Vote Murtagh '08.
"Perhaps what Murtagh enjoyed was watching another person shoulder the same terrible burden he had carried his whole life."
I totally was THINKING this sentence right before I read it….kinda creepy.
"A fountain of amber motes billowed and swirled…"
Me: "OMG I CAN HAZ MOTES AND SELL IN MAI NP SHOP????"
I love love LOVE the booze. Hahahaha. "Omg can't angst, must drink raspberry mead. Otays now I angst moar."
"The stone exhibited a profound lack of movement."
Eragon's Three Big Rules for Using Magic:
1. Don't take on projects that are beyond your abilities
2. Don't try to bring back the dead
3. Don't try to unmake anything
I love how Eragon and Roran are basically on a male-bonding weekend retreat: booze, chats around the fire about their love lives, therapy sessions…."Oh, and we gotta rescue your gf in the morning, btw."
Dang I never wanna see Saphira try to kiss Arya. Wheww.
"Death is a part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness."
"Cheer up! You may not have to worry about living forever. Galbatorix, Murtagh, the Ra'zac, or even one of the Empire's soldiers could put steel through us at any moment."
Okay did this sentence seriously just happen?
"They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity, and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody."
That's like….I'm not even sure what that's like. But I'm pretty sure 47.8 brain cells just esploded.
Boys are dumb. Leave em alone for five minutes, they start stripping and comparing bruises/cuts/scars.
Last but not least: Eragon really needs to get over the vegetarian thing.