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Why I loathe them
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Kitty on
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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It's been almost a year since I read the sporkings on Eragon and Twilight. Gosh how I hate both series. I hate Eragon for being inconsistent and Twilight for being such a badly-written fic.
The first time I saw Eragon on the bookstore shelf, I thought this was going to be one awesome epic trilogy. Well, I was wrong. First of all, it didn't turn out to be a trilogy, it was a quadrilogy and second, there were just so many obvious rip-offs from other works (but to be fair, so does heaps of other books), but what makes it really intolerable is the fact the characters are so inconsistent, like one moment Eragon was so repulsed by the idea of eating another living being that he gave up eating meat, but in the next book we see him eating meat voraciously. It's either because the author had forgotten the vow Eragon made or maybe he was just plain inconsistent. And it is highly irritating when the author just randomly throw in stuff to make Eragon more and more powerful instead of having him earning them on his own.
And don't get me on Twilight. The excessive description on how perfect Edward is simply glaring and yet, we don't get to see much explanation on how Bella looks like. For all we know, she might be just a piece of cardboard. Also, I especially loathe the abusive and domineering attitude of Edward. Bella? She annoys me for being such a spineless woman. The way I see it, she's all willing to put up with Edward's offensive1 behaviour as long as he luuuuurrrrvves her. I mean, love doesn't have to make sense, right?
Actually, come to think of it, I don't hate Twilight for being such a crappy read (I'm sure there are worse), but because people (fans) been claiming and glorifying it as a literary masterpiece when it clearly isn't.
And that guys, sums up my views on the two series. I could've written more but I'm not going to. I'll just let you read the sporkings on your own.
Here are links to the sporkings:
http://vampirely.wordpress.com
http://eragon-sporkings.wikispaces.com
1 I'd be creeped out if my boyfriend comes into my room every night to watch me sleeping.
A challenge for those who have read the two series, name one similarity between the main protagonist of each series (Eragon and Bella).
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Why I loathe them
Blogged by:
Kitty on
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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It's been almost a year since I read the sporkings on Eragon and Twilight. Gosh how I hate both series. I hate Eragon for being inconsistent and Twilight for being such a badly-written fic.
The first time I saw Eragon on the bookstore shelf, I thought this was going to be one awesome epic trilogy. Well, I was wrong. First of all, it didn't turn out to be a trilogy, it was a quadrilogy and second, there were just so many obvious rip-offs from other works (but to be fair, so does heaps of other books), but what makes it really intolerable is the fact the characters are so inconsistent, like one moment Eragon was so repulsed by the idea of eating another living being that he gave up eating meat, but in the next book we see him eating meat voraciously. It's either because the author had forgotten the vow Eragon made or maybe he was just plain inconsistent. And it is highly irritating when the author just randomly throw in stuff to make Eragon more and more powerful instead of having him earning them on his own.
And don't get me on Twilight. The excessive description on how perfect Edward is simply glaring and yet, we don't get to see much explanation on how Bella looks like. For all we know, she might be just a piece of cardboard. Also, I especially loathe the abusive and domineering attitude of Edward. Bella? She annoys me for being such a spineless woman. The way I see it, she's all willing to put up with Edward's offensive1 behaviour as long as he luuuuurrrrvves her. I mean, love doesn't have to make sense, right?
Actually, come to think of it, I don't hate Twilight for being such a crappy read (I'm sure there are worse), but because people (fans) been claiming and glorifying it as a literary masterpiece when it clearly isn't.
And that guys, sums up my views on the two series. I could've written more but I'm not going to. I'll just let you read the sporkings on your own.
Here are links to the sporkings:
http://vampirely.wordpress.com
http://eragon-sporkings.wikispaces.com
1 I'd be creeped out if my boyfriend comes into my room every night to watch me sleeping.
A challenge for those who have read the two series, name one similarity between the main protagonist of each series (Eragon and Bella).
Labels: Eragon, sporkings, Twilight
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