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[kippurbird]

Taken with the webcam on my new laptop.


Quick survey:

Do people think that Brom turning out to be Eragon's real dad was Paolini's idea from the very start or something he retconed to get away from the Star Wars critics?

What is Brisingr about? The plot, I mean. (Cause I'd really like to know).

Comments

[ravenswept.livejournal.com]

"You see that octopus too, right? With the hat? the hat will be mine"

I believe most of the third book to be retconning and backpedaling in order to fend off his critics, because there was so much he wanted to try to say "Nah uh, and here's why!". And came off as trying way to hard, to late, to be original.

Brisingr has no plot, not one worth mentioning. This is why I don't think of the last book as the "Fourth Book", to me it will always be "Book Three, Part Two". And that's what it is, Paolini only increased the book count to four because he said "there was simply too much to condense into a final third novel, so I expanded the Cycle."