Comments | kippurbird: My thoughts on some of the chapter titles

kippurbird

My thoughts on some of the chapter titles

Nov 14, 2011 13:29

SO!

Inheritance has come out. The last book in the Eragon Story.

I am not touching it until after November. The last thing I want is my brain to go all Paolini prose on me. I had a PDF copy... but it appears to have vanished on me... ;|

In the meantime; the chapter titles and some commentary.

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eragon, inheritance

Comments 17

anarchicq November 14 2011, 23:06:43 UTC

Ss...Ss-s-seventy eight chapters?!

kippurbird November 14 2011, 23:37:46 UTC

Yee-yup.

However, I don't know how long the chapters are.

ravenswept November 16 2011, 17:31:13 UTC

I forget how long the book itself is (too damn long), but even going by an 800 page standard, it's:

...just barely little more than 10 pages per chapter. So only five physical pages of book.

Maybe it's the Da Vinci cheat of "And the chapters are short, so it makes you feel smart for getting through them so fast."

kippurbird November 19 2011, 18:34:21 UTC

Yeah. I was thinking short chapters too. That has got to be the only reason why he has that "part one" and "Part two" chapters.

smurasaki November 14 2011, 23:24:32 UTC

Oh, wow, a lot of those titles remind me of other works of fiction. This is probably not a good thing.

kippurbird November 14 2011, 23:42:59 UTC

No. I don't think so.

lurkeriatipsos November 15 2011, 00:53:11 UTC

You mean, like Heir to the Empire? Because naming something "Heir to the Empire" and marketing it to sci-fi/fantasy nerds might make them recall, I dunno, the first book of the expanded Star Wars universe?

carolpent November 15 2011, 00:29:57 UTC

Chapter 7 - A miserable pile of secrets. /is shot

lurkeriatipsos November 15 2011, 00:48:58 UTC

Hammerfall

Oh, hey, that's one of my top 57 favorite German fantasy metal bands! I have this one CD of theirs where all the lyrics are in English and they're about knights and battles and dragons and I think they mention Jerusalem . . .

kippurbird November 19 2011, 18:37:51 UTC

Sounds cool!

lurkeriatipsos November 19 2011, 23:02:31 UTC

. . . Either that or it was the name of the album. It sounded a lot like every other German fantasy metal band ever. (I still liked it, though.)

anonymous November 15 2011, 01:15:13 UTC

YOUR GUESSES ARE HILARIOUSLY OFF BASE

(also, I totally made the same mistakes)

And now I shall spoil it all for you and ruin your enjoyment hopes of keeping Paolini-free

S-P-O-I-L-E-R-S

Chapter Four: King Cat Wonder
Rejoice. Eragon no longer hallucinates. And... that's it.
Chapter Sixteen: Aroughs
is a town
Chapter Eighteen: A Toss of the Bones
No FATE involved. None. Nill. Zero.
Chapter Nineteen: My Friend, My Enemy
Now, see, I also thought there would be Murtagh here, but no, it's another lousy Roran chapter. With plenty to go.
Chapter Twenty: A Flour Made of Flame
Paolini got his cause and effect backwards. See, flour makes flame. Or at least explosions. (I already saw this trick in another book.)

.... actually, this is as far as I got. SPOILER: this book sucks