Oh, you've got to be kidding me. "Hahaha, then I guess Eragon is a Sue"? Really? >_< I feel so sorry for the poor kid. He really needs to get in touch with reality and the other side of the coin. The longer he delays, the more painful it'll be.
You're not nervous about the prospect of him reading your sporkings? I know I would be. I'd feel nervous about all the bits that were particularly pointily phrased and whatnot...
I've read the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. I loved it. While prophecy played a huge part in it, there wasn't a particular Chosen One as much as different players with different parts to play. And the blurred line between good and evil is something he did really well. A memorable part involves an evil-turned-good character being driven to evil again and becoming something of a Big Bad. It was an interesting take on how evil could *genuinely* seem justified, or at least made those decisions genuinely relateable. Few stories manage to do that without being a bit condescending about it and provoking a sort of "But *I* would never have fallen in that trap!" reaction from the reader.
And this sort of multi-sidedness is really missing in the Inheritance Cycle. People are either heroes or villains, either good or evil, either selfish or selfless, either right or in the wrong. No middle ground, no subjectivity, no "it's in the eye of the beholder" there. Even more annoyingly, it's always Eragon who turns out to be in the right.
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Date: 2010-07-25 02:26 pm (UTC)You're not nervous about the prospect of him reading your sporkings? I know I would be. I'd feel nervous about all the bits that were particularly pointily phrased and whatnot...
I've read the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. I loved it. While prophecy played a huge part in it, there wasn't a particular Chosen One as much as different players with different parts to play. And the blurred line between good and evil is something he did really well. A memorable part involves an evil-turned-good character being driven to evil again and becoming something of a Big Bad. It was an interesting take on how evil could *genuinely* seem justified, or at least made those decisions genuinely relateable. Few stories manage to do that without being a bit condescending about it and provoking a sort of "But *I* would never have fallen in that trap!" reaction from the reader.
And this sort of multi-sidedness is really missing in the Inheritance Cycle. People are either heroes or villains, either good or evil, either selfish or selfless, either right or in the wrong. No middle ground, no subjectivity, no "it's in the eye of the beholder" there. Even more annoyingly, it's always Eragon who turns out to be in the right.