I don't know if yall have ever read Eragon or any of the Inheritance cycle but.....THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IS OUT IN 20 DAYS!!! Yall....I have been waiting and waiting what seems like forever for Christopher Paolini to finish this series. It took him about two years per book so I think that puts the original release date for Eragon around 2002. This one took him 3 dadgum years to finish. I started this series when I was twelve. WRITE FASTER!! Anyhow, I will be at Barnes and Noble November 8. I hope we don't have anything big to read that week because my attention will be devoted elsewhere.
Because Paolini took FOREVER to write this series it got me thinking: does the author owe his/her audience anything? If Paolini didn't want to finish the series, he shouldn't have to but it would kill me as an avid reader. So I guess my intelectual answer is that an author doesn't owe anything to his/her reader but my answer as the audience is that heck yes they do. Don't start a series if you don't intend to finish it because I won't be reading you again.
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ReplyDeleteWould you say that the Eragon movie wasn't able to do the book series justice? The movie didn't do a whole lot for me, but maybe i'm just being to hard on it.
ReplyDeleteThe movie was awful. However having said that the first book is also my least favorite. He was 17 I think when he wrote the first novel and I think he has matured and become a better storyteller with each new book he publishes. The reason I love this series so much is because I started it when I was younger. I don't know if I would like it if I was to start the series now.
ReplyDeletei loved this series! the movie was one of the worst i've ever seen.. i think i still make fun of it to this day. i've been wondering when the last book was ever going to come out! I think the problem with waiting so long between books (and to finish what was supposed to be a trilogy) means that his reader fanbase diminished a lot. Think about it. How many kids are going to finish a series they started at 12, now that they're 20 or 21? I will, but that's just because i'm stubborn like that.
ReplyDeleteMovie, bad. Book, good. I think the author owes it to the audience to finish a series if the audience wants him/her to finish the series. Make sense? Like, if it sucks and no one likes it, you're totally fine not finishing it. But if it's a big hit, then yeah, you shouldn't leave your fans hanging. That's my opinion, because clearly I'm such a famous author and I know everything there is to know about everything. :)
ReplyDeleteI think if an author is going to take a long time on a series, it should be well written with an amazing plot to account for the time we spend pining for the next book. Stephen King did that with the Dark Tower series which is very worth it. I think he had a twenty year gap while he was having troubles writing. If it wasn't twenty years it was still a long time. Another author that I happened upon is Rufus Wainwright. He is the author of the King Killer Chronicles. His second book came out this year, seven years after the first. I'm waiting for the third. If you want a long good read, these books are what you're looking for.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty excited about this, too. I've been waiting for years for him to finally finish it. And I think that, yes, he does have an obligation to his readers to complete the series.
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