West
Finale Katara
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Post by West on Feb 25, 2007 11:34:56 GMT -5
Hi! We must never have met! My name is Wilderness. I have never been known to write anything short. Nice to meet you. Thanks, nice too meet you too. ;d
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Post by DrewOrDie on Feb 28, 2007 17:40:34 GMT -5
i finished the first one and really really liked it.
now im reading eldest, and so far i like it like 90384283 times more.
its like perfect for me, i always read fantasy books on dragons, and i love lord of the rings, so this is perfect.
i also like legend of zelda. and yeah the inheritance series is just perfect.
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Post by appacatbus on Feb 28, 2007 18:20:13 GMT -5
and yeah the inheritance series is just perfect. It is perfect. Once you cut away the bad writing, the cliche, the terrible plot, the shallow gary stue/mary sue characters, and the plagarism, its just about prefect.
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Post by DrewOrDie on Mar 1, 2007 10:48:25 GMT -5
lol you obviously dont like it and its not for all reading styles but it combined all the kinds that i like
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Post by appacatbus on Mar 16, 2007 14:55:14 GMT -5
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Linguini
Sokka
The pastas of the world will now eat you. Oh, sweet irony.
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Post by Linguini on Mar 18, 2007 23:55:50 GMT -5
Ehh...I think the series is OK. I try to ignore the bad writing and, well, everything. :P I just want to know what happens in the end, basically.
The main thing that killed me was the language. Oh, Lord. Do a little research before you try developing a language. "Hmm," Christopher Paulini thought. "I have no idea how to make an unique language. So what the hey, I'm going to put random diacritical marks on random letters to impress my readers! Oh, and I'm going to make my conlang exactly like English! Except for this little part in the book where it's crucial to the plot. Ooo...my readers are going to be impressed! *little girly laugh* I guess I'll make two more, just to show how little I know about linguistics. Again, I'll do nothing to case. I'll leave all three languages inflecting, keep articles in all of them, and I guess I won't mess around with what verbs inflect or anything."
Grr. *kicks the ancient language or w/e it's called*
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Post by DrewOrDie on Mar 30, 2007 22:15:54 GMT -5
after thinking about it i realized the story line basics is like.. exactly the same as starwars lol
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Post by Chibi Chan-o on Mar 30, 2007 22:25:37 GMT -5
OMG, X-Play is so gay. The hosts are so annoying, especially the girl. Everytime I've seen them, they bash every game. The most they've given a game is a 3 out of 5.
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Post by appacatbus on Mar 30, 2007 23:01:44 GMT -5
OMG, X-Play is so gay. The hosts are so annoying, especially the girl. Everytime I've seen them, they bash every game. The most they've given a game is a 3 out of 5. It is pretty lame, but they did a good job criticising Eragon.
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Post by writer on Apr 1, 2007 18:08:07 GMT -5
Gods...
I could write better crap than Chris.
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Post by Chibi Chan-o on Apr 1, 2007 21:09:28 GMT -5
And any girl could be a less annoying host than [insert female X-Play host's name here].
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Post by appacatbus on Apr 1, 2007 23:40:42 GMT -5
And any girl could be a less annoying host than [insert female X-Play host's name here]. Although I dont really mind Adam. Entertainment Weekly certainly didnt like Eldest: I swear on Helzvog's stone girdle that I have not for many a year read anything so mind-numbingly silly as Eldest, the endless, overheated sequel to Christopher Paolini's best-selling 2003 Lord of the Rings knockoff, Eragon.
Published when Paolini was 18, Eragon introduced its eponymous hero, a humble, orphaned farm boy from the hamlet of Carvahall whose life changes when he finds a mysterious blue dragon's egg. Paolini's imaginary world, Alagaësia, is in the throes of an epic battle between good and evil, pitting the rebel Varden people against the oppressive king Galbatorix and his henchmen, among them the barbaric, horned Urgals. The 528-page behemoth ended with the promise — if such it was — of two more volumes.
As the even heftier new installment begins, Eragon and his telepathic dragon, Saphira, cross paths with some stray Urgals, then help install a new Varden leader. (The sleazy political power struggle calls to mind another one of Paolini's debts: Star Wars.) Back in Carvahall, his doughty cousin Roran battles the malodorous, ''insectile'' Ra'zac (who hiss when they talk, as in ''You ssshall die!''), while Eragon and Saphira begin a pilgrimage to Ellesméra, the domain of the elf queen Islanzadí, who is ''as beautiful as an autumn sunset.'' Here, Eragon lives on honey cakes and thimbleberry jelly, and takes a crash course in magic and swordsmanship from the wise old elf Oromis.
Malarkey like this might be forgiven if it were hitched to a fast-moving narrative. But Paolini dawdles, with long, self-indulgent asides about the proper components of a dwarfish bow (Feldûnost horns, skin from the roof of trout's mouths) and Eragon's romantic yearnings for emerald-eyed Arya, an enigmatic elf who ''set his insides churning with a mixture of odd sensations he could not identify.''
Ugh. Or, as the dwarfs say, ''Werg.''
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Post by Chibi Chan-o on Apr 2, 2007 20:41:40 GMT -5
Honestly, the book was too big for me. The only 500+ page book I'll read is Harry Potter. I almost finished Eragon but I couldn't force myself to do it. It bored me.
But X-Play seems to spend half its time bashing games rather than saying what the gameplay and what not is like.
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Post by writer on Apr 4, 2007 11:48:41 GMT -5
You probalby ticked because they gave Avatar a bad review...
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Post by avatarspirit on Apr 4, 2007 11:51:18 GMT -5
They did? when? Anyone have a link?
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