Sadly, this confirms a lot of what I hear, that Paolini is an amazingly nice guy and interesting enough to hang around with, but is still incredibly naive and very much apart from his fans and the general conveiance of his books in general.
I can kinda understand why more epic characters are found more interesting by some people. It's not entirely that normies are boring, but that the bigger the character, the more grand an adventure they (supposedly) can have. Which Paolini totally hoses himself with, when in Eldest the most interesting parts are Roran, a normie, doing these epic things and being much more interesting than Eragon ever was or is.
I do hope your card included your sporkings address, having him read through those would be, itself, epic.
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Date: 2010-07-25 05:40 am (UTC)I can kinda understand why more epic characters are found more interesting by some people. It's not entirely that normies are boring, but that the bigger the character, the more grand an adventure they (supposedly) can have. Which Paolini totally hoses himself with, when in Eldest the most interesting parts are Roran, a normie, doing these epic things and being much more interesting than Eragon ever was or is.
I do hope your card included your sporkings address, having him read through those would be, itself, epic.