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Totally unreal. This kid writes a book, it hits big, and then they make a movie about it, all in under five years.

Jealousy abounds.

Ah, the green eyed monster. Yus. We must fight it. :/ Perhaps you'll have your day, GP.

wow how successful. o.o

Ah, the green eyed monster. Yus. We must fight it. :/ Perhaps you'll have your day, GP.

I've been dreaming recently about getting my novel published and hitting it big so I'll never have to work a day in my life.

Dream dream dream dream dre-e-eam.

OOOOOOH when is it cominh out? info plz!!!!!!

2006. They're in preproduction. You can find what little info there is at http://www.imdb.com. Just search for Eragon.

Afterwards he'll be almost as rich as Bill Gates and will be able to retire
before he turns 20!
Geez if I were that lucky I'd write one book per decade and with the
money buy a castle in Ireland.
Or maybe I'd save it all and buy up Comcast and Cartoon Network and
make them both go back and showing the sorts of anime and 'toons
I like!
Then I'd buy that castle in Ireland and one in Japan and one in
Spain and one in England.

Castle's are expensive.

I'd buy a small piece of land in the middle of nowhere (or near the Waterberg Mountains in the Limpopo Province just north of where I live - see picture below) with a small house. Can you beat those moutains?



Still I'm not really looking forward to the movie. I loved the book but this movie seems rushed.

The book just didnt yell "make me into a movie!"

Maybe a tv miniseries...but not a movie.

...maybe a mid-day movie. (lol)
I thought it was impressive that someone so young could get published and sell so many copies but I wasn't impressed how boring his writing style was and how unoriginal the story felt (like every other sword and sorcery style fantasy) blah.
Definetly not worth a movie.

but I wasn't impressed how boring his writing style was and how unoriginal the story felt (like every other sword and sorcery style fantasy) blah.
Definetly not worth a movie.

Finally, someone agrees with me on his writing style and plot.

The story wasn't that unoriginal and the writing was quite good at some parts. Off course it just screamed "I WANT TO BE TOLKIEN" but that's a staple of the genre.

I still have that book somewhere on one of my bookshelves. My dad gave it to me to read because he liked it, but it never struck me as all that interesting.

Personally, I'm looking forward more to the Halo movie--best sci-fi story I've seen in quite some time.

Off course it just screamed "I WANT TO BE TOLKIEN" but that's a staple of the genre.

Too bad it's true. You can't write fantasy now without Tolkien's specter hanging over you. His work has become fantasy, really.

As well it should be! Tolkien is the Shakespeare of fantasy, "The Bard" of Middle Earth.

It is hard to avoid the Tolkien influence, but some fantasy artists have done it. And they often have more interesting and creative works because of it. But they don't get very popular.

...which doesn't really encourage everyone else to break free.

Then we must take up the sword of truth, and encourage them to break free!!!

Now, there's a metaphor that didn't work too well....

...I liked the book....of course he's young so he's grown up reading tolkien so your definately gonna have that influence in there... I don't think I'm too thrilled about the movie cuz movies after books usually aren't that good but I am looking forward to the next book in the trilogy

cuz movies after books usually aren't that good

Oh, come now. That's not very fair. Lord of the Rings, friend?

I look forward to the movie because I probably won't read the book. Judging from many of the reviews, his lack of originality would probably annoy me.

When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty.

When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty.

Sounds a bunch like myself when I was that age, too. I suppose every aspiring writer starts out that way.

I didn't really find the book all that great...but I'll probably still end up seeing the movie sometime. Because I have no life.

EireWolf wrote:When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty.

Sounds like a book I once wrote.

When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty.

I think it sounds like a book everyone wrote when they were about 10...I know I had a whole series going like that for a long time...

but I guess i dunno...I still think the book was good... *shrugs* for being slightly unoriginal

My first 'book' was a shameless rip-off of Star Wars. I called it "Space Battle", which--interestingly enough--just happened to be the name of an old Intellivision game I had at the time.

Hopefully the same thing will happen to me, though I'm not exactly a kid.

From what I heard, Eragon was not original. I'm writing a novel right now that I suppose is a little similar to Wolf's Rain in that there are wolves that can become humans, but they're generally shapeshifters and can become numerous things as long as the mind of whatever they become is extremely similar to a wolf's mind. It's not preachy, though I'm sure my personal views are made clear.

I'm getting bored with all the Tolkien ripoffs...

Personally, I thought the book was good, though sometimes slow and the whole thing was pretty cliched. Still, perhaps that will change in sequel.... perhaps...

I want to see a novel where you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys until
the last page and then it screws everything up because nothing really happened the way you thought it did and the person who you thought was the villianness was really the central heroine.
HEHHEHHEH!:)

I want to see a novel where you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys until
the last page and then it screws everything up because nothing really happened the way you thought it did and the person who you thought was the villianness was really the central heroine.
HEHHEHHEH!

Oh, there are lots of those types of books. Mostly in mental wards.