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Feb 03, 2012 07:52PM

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Okay, I'm going to read Eragon right after I finish Hunchback of Notre Dame. That could take me any where from 5 days to um...3 weeks. I will go as fast as I can! That guy puts me to sleep sometimes. I have been getting marvelous rest the last few days...


Jessica...if you get Huchback done in three days, you're AMAZING! :)
Looking forward to the discussion!:)
Hope there's at least something saucey or annoying or fabulous to talk about!

SERIOUSLY.
I saw the Eragon movie before I had the book, right when it first came out. I remember thinking it was a really decent movie and was really angry when it ended on a cliffhanger and my friend was like, "OH YEAH, it's a trilogy, lololol."
And then I read the book and I was like, "Well, that about the worst book-to-movie adaption EVER." Could it have been anymore inaccurate? XD

Oh, and I do love bashing movies for not being like books...so that's a huge plus!

We can be snarky about bad movies as well as books. (;


This is terrible of me, but this is the same reason I never finished Harry Potter. OTL. I got to book three was like, 'TOO MANY DETAILS I DON'T CARE ABOUT!' *throws books across the room* *sigh*

I usually do really like a lot of description, as long as it's *helpful* description. Funny you bring up Tolkien, Thalia - this Silmarillion has a little TOO MUCH description for my liking. I like to be able to imagine where I am, but with all the silly names and different variations and so many of them being alike, etc... yeah, the notes are needed to follow it. Homework, for reading a novel? Ugh.
So, I'm kind of looking forward to some YA for a little bit. Even considering putting the Tolkien down for a while (GASP!!!) just to get a break in from it. All except I think Beren and Luthien are next. ROFL!
I saw the movie when it came out, also, and that's when I tried to get my oldest son to read it. Sadly, he was way too young to be interested just yet, and I didn't have the chance to read it instead, so we didn't get past... yeah, page 13 sounds about right. HA! I'd heard that the movie was a badly adapted version, but you hear that about a lot of movies, so I figured it was at least close. Maybe not? But it's been a while since I've seen the movie so I'm quite sure neither will ruin the other for me just now.
Looking forward to getting started though! Thanks for the thread! Good idea! <3


April- thanks for bringing up Inkheart! I forgot how good it was.
I have read Eragon at least 3 times. It's and even though he is wordy, the important details are repeated so I bet you won't miss anything.

Is this a new emote? :()
Is that not the same as :O?
Hahaha. (:
Man, I don't even have anything to do right now and I'm staring at Eragon, dreading reading it! x)
Dalynn, I'm not surprised Silmarillion has tons of details, hahaha. Even some of the biggest LotR fans haven't been able to stomach it!

I like it, I do. I'm enjoying it. I just need larger spans of time to be able to enjoy it properly. It's not a book you can read one paragraph at a time. LOL
I'm hoping Eragon will be more conducive to what my life looks like right now, though I'm getting more concerned about my classics TBR for this year. ;) Hope they don't kick me out of Bookish. ROFL!
I thought the Eragon movie was Star Wars with Dragons. Like, let's copy the exact same story as Star Wars but they'll ride Dragons instead of X-wings. It was the most predictable movie I've ever seen with some bad acting mixed in. Oh, and it was really cheesy. I hate cheesy movies.
I met Christopher Paolini and he was a nice guy! I'm excited to read his book. Too bad his book got made into a crappy movie.
I met Christopher Paolini and he was a nice guy! I'm excited to read his book. Too bad his book got made into a crappy movie.

Thalia..no new emoticon...bad typing:)OTL, LOL! :) . . .and thanks for the fact..but usually it's not ture in my case (at least since college! I read for fun...there usually isn't a D in front of anything...although this challenge is helping with that!)
Oh, and Thalia and Dalynn! Oh DEAR!@! Do I know about going back and RE-reading...ugh...I try and try to skim through boring parts, but then I get to something and I'm like, what...who is that when did they get here...and end up going back and skimming! Grrr... :)
...and yes, it would be hard to do so if your reading out loud...I try to do that with the kids sometimes, and they call me on it every time! :D
Looking forward to reading Eragon so that I can get the movie out and totally make fun of it with my kids! Sounds like a great way to spend a Satuday night:)

I've read all the books and seen the movie.
Haha yeah if you want to watch the movies, yes be warned. It is kinda fun to discriminate a movie that was a horrible replica of the movie. Like Eragon and Percy Jackson.

The worst we've run into so far was the Rats of Nihm. That was really a totally differnt story! But they both had rats that could talk!

Rick riordan hasn't even watched it.


Fifty-ish pages in. Finally things are interesting! Once the dragon actually becomes a thing, it's much more interesting, hahah.


I'm really getting into the characters now, and totally sucked in....enjoying it, and on edge...egads! Oh, and I wanna be an elf! Just sayin'!

And I'm worried about starting Eragon while still reading Silmarillion now. ROFL


I'm the same way, about not reading more than one fic at a time (not counting the kids read alouds, and even that I can only handle because it's just a couple of chapters at a time). I do okay if they're totally different. I don't know if I DONT do okay with anything though, because it just bothers my brain to even TRY. Just one of those things.
If I get in another "silent reading day" though, like I did yesterday, maybe I'll finish Silmarillion this weekend and start Eragon Monday, a week behind. Maybe? Or something. We'll see. Again, considering setting down SIlmarillion... just worried about if and when I'll pick it back up and thinking it might be better to just power through it.
I think I might skim the 'details' chapters and just read the fun stories. It'd be a better book with just the fun stories. At least IMHO. (do we need an abbreviations translator, thalia?)

But you're right! It takes that hundred or so pages to get situated with it, hahah.
Dalynn, I agree. Reading the first book in a series and never reading the rest? That should be illegal! Even books I HATE, if they're in a series, I force myself through the rest of the way! Then again, I may have a sickness with things like that. (;
LOL, April, thanks for the translation there. (;
Dalynn, I think I can piece together IMHO on my own, hahaha. IMO is a pretty common one and I'm sure the H isn't something crazy like 'in my hippo's opinion' or something, right? x)

I didn't forget..I was just afraid to tempt someone...this was the biggest (view spoiler) But, I was still ok with it...althoug I wish that would have gone differently:) I'm on about page 335, but I won't make it through the rest as fast because I had already read to about page 200...so it was faster getting through that! Although...there's some cool stuff going on!
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And...yes...I already knew I'd read all three...but Not sure if it's before or after I get my challenge books done:) If I start those, I might never get back to these dusty ones! :) Eragon is a fun distraction to have a group read with y'all while I'm reading my non-fiction too! Not sure what I'll tackle for March:) Then in April it's on to that big book of poetic phrases that's gonna kill me and Jessica's gonna have to make sure I read at LEAST a page every day! :) :)
Anyway . . . Eragon is definately picking up...and the pages are turning much more easily! Looking forward to see if he leaves an uber cliff-hanger or ends in a place (like InkHeart did) where the others can wait??? Hmmm...

April! In regards to spoiler one:
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Spoiler two!
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Glad to hear it gets interesting at the end there!

...and yes to the hippo! My kids would LOVE a hippo! How fun would THAT be?!?! :)

I don't know the spoiler HTML. But it doesn't matter cuz i can't get out of Silmarillion to HAVE any spoilers. And not clicking the above spoilers is going. to drive. me nuts.


April, I remember that! If you're looking, you can see some parallels, but not enough to say Paolini directly copied anybody. I applaud him for being so successful! I plan on finishing tonight after the Valentine's dance I'm going to. (:


I ended up reading like, five pages! I was all set to buckle down and dive in, and then my parents were like, "We recorded the rest of Yentl!" which we started in the morning and didn't get to finish. So I got sucked into to the musical and then was too angry about the ending to read anything else, hahaha. Plus, it was about one in the morning by the time we were done!
As soon as I get home from church...Eragon will be taken down! (:

