Turn Me Up When You Feel Low

[newsong]

Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
I pray you'll never leave me behind
Because good music can be so hard to find

When I started writing this post, it was a couple of days ago and I was enjoying the different surroundings of sitting at Starbucks and playing on Paul's laptop while puttering around on the internet and waiting on hold to talk

Comments

[jesusphreaq]

Besides the fact that he uses the same (now done-to-death) cliche of mentor-and-student that Tolkien used while it wasn't as tired, probably only the way he describes things and some of the world is reminiscent of Lord of the Rings. But he says himself that he was going for that:

In 2002, Eragon was published privately by his parents. To promote the book, Paolini toured over 135 schools and libraries, discussing reading and writing, all the while dressed in "a medieval costume of red shirt, billowy black pants, lace-up boots, and a jaunty black cap."

[...] Incidentally, he gave a speech at Carl Hiaasen's stepson's school and Hiaasen enjoyed the book so much, he told his publisher, Knopf. An offer was made by Knopf for Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance trilogy. After another round of editing, the second edition of Eragon was published in August 2003.

With regard to his prose, Paolini has said, "In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf."

Wow! The conceit!! I couldn't muster any kind of descriptive-enough invective for his own words, and I'm not going to try. You can see why I would think any 19 to 20-year-old who would say something like that is just another arrogant white male we don't need in the field of authorship. But ah wells. I hope you enjoy the books anyway. But as someone with five years of English degree behind me, I have sat through a LOT of listening to smarmy people like Paolini and have gained almost an allergic reaction to that sort of literary snobbery, as well as to ripping off of other works to disguise the fact that you have no new good ideas. (Cough Matched, Divergent cough.)

So yeah, don't mistake any of my hate for "his type" for anything other than it is. It's not you, it's me. Just can't stand the guy!