Monthly Archives: November 2010

Eragon Chapter Fifty Five

Posted on 11/29/2010 by vivisector

So I’m looking over the chapter titles and I want to make a prediction. I won’t spoil the names for you but when I get to each you can glance back and check up on this to see how right … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Fifty Four

Posted on 11/27/2010 by vivisector

So what’s with Chris slamming regular jobs? Sure it’s subtle but he has Saphira, who serves as one of his many mouth pieces, talk about that girl never working in common jobs. Either Chris wants to spin her off into … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Fifty Three

Posted on 11/25/2010 by vivisector

I’d like to talk about magic for a second. No, not the card game, that’s for another time. I’m talking about magic within the confines of fantasy novels. You see, Chris has checked off a couple of my pet peeves … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Fifty Two

Posted on 11/23/2010 by vivisector

So why are there so few named people in this story? Why is it that so many characters wander about known only by their relation rather than be given a proper name? Take Murtagh’s mother, for example. That’s how we … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Fifty One

Posted on 11/21/2010 by vivisector

I’ve noticed Chris keeps emphasizing the importance of Murtagh’s father. Everyone in this book is gets bent out of shape at thinking that his dad was a Forsworn. And that’s fine, if everyone in this world is obsessed with parental … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Fifty

Posted on 11/19/2010 by vivisector

This book has some frightening parallels between it and Myers’ work. Besides the obvious author avatars, there are the dull plotless stories that try injecting tension into their tepid work at varying times. It’s like these terrible authors are subconsciously … Continue reading →

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Next Book

Posted on 11/18/2010 by vivisector

We’re coming up on that time again, the end of the book. And once again I’m not certain just what to do. So once more I ask you put in a request in the comments to this post. I figure … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Forty Nine

Posted on 11/17/2010 by vivisector

I’ve challenged myself to name something I like from this book and I’ve been thinking on it for a bit now. I can’t think of a single thing that isn’t so prechewed and bland that, after tasting, doesn’t make me … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Forty Eight

Posted on 11/15/2010 by vivisector

Alright, Chris. You’d better tell us what kind of Dark Past® Murtagh has pretty soon here. I’m sick of him whining like Eragon(Nobody understands me!) at the slightest provocation. If he keeps telling us how he’s been hunted and persecuted … Continue reading →

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Eragon Chapter Forty Seven

Posted on 11/13/2010 by vivisector

There’s a moment in the latest fakestallment of—that is to say pretender to the throne—the Indiana saga that bugs me more than any other. It’s when they’re looking for a skull and they end up in the small chamber with … Continue reading →

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