antishurtugal: the "exciting announcement"

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guardian_hawk) wrote in

antishurtugal,
@ 2007-10-30 10:01:00

Current mood:	not at all surprised
Current music:	Sentimental-Porcupine Tree

the "exciting announcement"
Anyone who took yesterday's 4-1 odds would have won if I had actually taken wagers; the announcement is that book three (no title as of yet) will be released 23/09/08, but that CP will indeed need four books to finish the series.

Full press release here, and at 5pm EST today they'll post a video of CP talking about it.

Discuss.

ETA: the video's up (but I don't have time to summarize for those who tend to lose consciousness at the sound of CP's voice, sorry).

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	darksigma 2007-10-30 02:15 pm UTC (link)
	So it'll be a four-part trilogy? Now poor Douglas Adams is rolling in his grave. (Reply to this)

	quenbolyn 2007-10-30 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, noes! A fourth book? Jeez, what more has to happen? And now he has to come up with a clever six-letter title that starts with the letter "E". Hmm, that's is going to be difficult... (Okay, excuse my snarkiness, but I just woke up.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	quenbolyn 2007-10-30 02:54 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I just had a thought. This means he's going to be pushing towards thirty yeas old when he finally finishes this thing. And yet, we'll still hear the excuse of :But he waas only fifteen years old..." (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	sermocinare 2007-10-30 02:22 pm UTC (link)
	"signature hear-stopping adventure"? Yeah, sure, my heart almost stopped. But that was because my metabolism was reduced to a crawl by the sheer boredom I felt... (Reply to this)

	thor_axegrinder 2007-10-30 02:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Jesus, I'll have to read through two more of these things? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Oh, Jesus, I'll have to read through two more of these things? (Anonymous) 2007-11-12 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	At least. Remember movie sequelitis? Milking the franchise for every penny until you get a sequel that doesn't sell? Be prepared for sequel after sequel to Eragon (from The Bestselling Child Prodigy) until the sales of the last start to tank. After all, it's all he knows how to write. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	woekitten 2007-10-30 02:32 pm UTC (link)
	Aw hell nah! (Reply to this)

	jedi_amara 2007-10-30 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	Ouch. (Reply to this)

	amsaph 2007-10-30 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	This time he's copying ME! And I planned mine as a quadrology! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	There's a classic filk called "Always Write a Trilogy" (Anonymous) 2007-11-12 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	That ends with "Write a Decology" (a referenced L Ron Hubbard's Scientologist-fiction pulp series Battlefield Earth). Though even Elron has been topped. By the 22-volume Left Behind, the Eragon of the Christian Apocalyptic genre. What's the Greek or Latin for "twenty-two"-ology? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	ncuday 2007-10-30 02:44 pm UTC (link)
	hittingheadrepeatedlyondesk What is the fourth book going to be if he's going to shove things he might not have planned into it? Ugh, I don't want to think about it... WHY! (Reply to this)

	vazavati 2007-10-30 02:48 pm UTC (link)
	Well, let's look on the bright side: It'll give half the Internet more to lampoon, & still more pages of drivel that boost my own writer's ego quite well. XD Come on, you know you were thinking it. (Reply to this)

	elenielstorm 2007-10-30 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Arrrgghhhhh. This not only sucks for all of mankind, but also for whatever potential Paolini ever had as an actual writer. Chugging away on this piece of shit series for decades is no way to grow as a writer. He's got to MOVE ON! (Reply to this)

odclay
2007-10-30 03:27 pm UTC (link)

Either he's been talking to George R.R. "Ok Guys, One More Book!" Martin, or he's been reading Douglas Adams and feels like being clever. Either way, the Inheritance Cycle is going to reeeeeally suck. It was bad enough having Edlest as the trilogy's halfway-point, with its sucky boring stoylines and deus ex machina character development, but now Eragon, despite being an uber half-Elf rider, needs two more (probably 700+ page) books to defeat Galbatorix? Man, that's a joke.

On the upside, the book isn't going to be published for nearly another year (editing nightmare, perhaps?), so the fans are going to be hopping mad...

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	oenone_borealis 2007-10-30 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	Nooo! Not a tetralogy. What can he possibly do? Either we'll get a rehashed Return of the Jedi spread out over two books, or he'll just use it for one. I hope that doesn't imply that he'll start looking at Episodes I-III for inspiration. (Reply to this)

	ncuday 2007-10-30 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	Oh I can already see Brom being Galbatorix's mentor and the original Eragon demanding to teach a young Galbatorix the way of the dragon rider. Yep it'll suck. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	guardian_hawk 2007-10-30 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	Except Brom's younger than Galbatorix, and all signs point to the first Eragon having lived a relatively short life. Though less plagiarism won't really make it any less bad... (Reply to this) (Parent)

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pdoverlord
2007-10-30 03:59 pm UTC (link)

Think of all the poor trees that will be cut... for two more bricks (each probably 700 pages long). Seriously, how much more needs to be covered that wouldn't fit into just one book... with major editing for all the unnecessary stuff he will stick in? But it will be sad... he'll be in his thirties by the time the fourth brick comes out. He could have moved on to maybe better writing that might have been more original.

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kevias
2007-10-30 04:05 pm UTC (link)

"plot points and unanswered questions" (?)
"too big to fit in one volume" (!?)

This has to be a joke, right?

Plot Points:
1) Eragon & Roran rescue Katrina
2) Eragon finds uber-sword
3) Eragon rescues third egg (hatches for Arya)
4) Murtagh breaks free from Galbatorix and dies
5) Something with "Well of Souls"
6) Battle of Urû'baen
7) Climactic duel with Galbatorix
8) Marriage with Arya
9) Happily ever after

Eldest had 71 chapters, so if each of these got 7 apiece (too many, at that), there would still be 8 left over for Nasuada and Roran POVs, without needing a fourth book, or even a longer third book.

The padding on this is going to exceed Eddings' Dreamers and by a far less talented writer.

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	kellicat 2007-10-30 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	I think you're right about the major plot points, except maybe #1. I think Katrina will die in the attempt to rescue her so Roran and Eragon can have some ANGST to prove that they're not sociopaths. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	razzek 2007-10-30 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	One word sums up all my feelings about this: LAME. Jeez, Chris, just give up already. (Reply to this)

	azvolrien 2007-10-30 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	'Signature heart-stopping adventure'? 'Thrilling revelations'? Must be a different Christopher Paolini. (Reply to this)

	_youngblood_ 2007-10-30 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Noooooooooooooo! Oh, God, why? My seething hatred for this series is already monstrous, Paolini-- must you feed it? Sha-Pao-Pao has now managed to annoy people beyond his canon... by adding to his canon. facedesk (Reply to this)

	freecandyforme 2007-10-30 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously?? Seriously??!!! That is all I have to say. SERIOUSLY????? (Reply to this)

	jenil 2007-10-30 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	For the first time in my life I've won a bet. Yet it makes me want to hold my head in my hands and cry and cry and cry and cry and cry and cry... etc. (Reply to this)

	freecandyforme 2007-10-30 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	And now that I've read the article.... True to his characters???!! What characters? Did he go and introduce characters when I wasn't looking? Sigh Now I know who's responsible for the cough editing (Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit), and can now find out where she lives and TP her house. Road trip, anyone? (Reply to this)

	freecandyforme 2007-10-30 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe it's just some sick Halloween joke. Like April Fools Day, only scarier. And November 1st they'll come out and say, "Haha, tricked you! It's ok, we just wanted a laugh," Please? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	db_silverdragon 2007-11-03 07:40 am UTC (link)
	Unfortunately, they don't seemed to have done that. D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-10-30 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	Wait- so is the fourth book gonna be black and have the uber- evil Shruiken on the front wtih the eyes and the teeth and the claws and the- OK, calm down. But this is really bad. Just when I thought I could finnish off the Third Book and pretend the last few years never happened, Chris goes and... and brings this on us! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	azvolrien 2007-10-30 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	...If it's well-drawn, that actually sounds like quite a cool cover. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yincira 2007-10-30 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	One side of me screamed out in agony, another side said : "That must mean there is more to mock for a few years forth, yippie". Either Paolini has mysteriously realized he is hopelessly unoriginal and made an honest attempt at adding something of his own, or it's going to be even more smeared out butter on white bread. (Reply to this)

kellicat
2007-10-30 07:18 pm UTC (link)

There's going to be four books coming out now? You have got to be kidding me, CP! He just lost another point in his favor in my book: the fact that he'd planned to write only three books and that was it, no more of the stupid things. He's fallen prey to the Endless Fantasy Series Disease. At least Martin has a good reason to prolong his series: there are just so many viewpoints that he couldn't fit them all into one book for the fourth one. Eldest was bad enough. I hate to imagine what the next two books are going to be like.

Let's see

1. They're going to have loads of superfluous description about places and Arya
2. Eragon will pass out at least twenty times in each book
3. The "plot" will be Return of the Jedi stretched out over two books so it'll be harder to accuse him of plagiarism (CP- I wrote FOUR books not THREE so I couldn't possiblyhave copied George Lucas)
4. The Ra'zac will be defeated at the end of book 3, and Galbatorix at the end of book 4
5. Katrina will die when they attempt to rescue her, giving Eragon and Roran an excuse to ANGST
6. The Varden shall suffer a defeat in book 3, but don't worry Eragon/Roran will pull a magical solution out of their asses and keep the important rebels like Nasuada from being captured though they'll have to re-group
7. Surda will be sacked as a result of point 6 which gives Our Heroes more excuses to ANGST
8. Oromis and Galedr will die either sometime late in book 3 or the beginning of book 4
9. The weapon under the Menoa Tree and the Vault of Souls will be each be used in one of the books as a Deus Ex Machina plot device. My guess is that the sword under the Menoa Tree will be used in book 3 and the Vault of Souls in book 4.
10. After their capture by the Raz'ac, Saphira will be raped by Murtagh's dragon. After she and Our Heroes escape, Arya will comfort her with "Oh you poor dragon, I would have been raped in prison too, but the author didn't want me to be a less than perfect Love Interest for his idiot hero!" This will make Saphira realize that she was Wrong to Be Jealous of Arya and she'll tell Eragon that Arya really is Right For Him.
11. There will be climactic battles at the end of book 3 and book 4.
12. Sometime after 10, Arya will confess her love for Eragon, they'll screw each other, then they'll be divided by a Big Misunderstanding late in book 3, then make up by the end of book 4.

I wonder how many of these will actually come true. Anyone want to take some bets?

P.S. He should have learned from JKR's example. She said she was only going to write seven Harry Potter books and she kept to her word, despite the enormous success of the books. Then again, she did have a timeline structure, something which many other authors lack.

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othellia
2007-10-30 07:24 pm UTC (link)

The "plot" will be Return of the Jedi stretched out over two books so it'll be harder to accuse him of plagiarism (CP- I wrote FOUR books not THREE so I couldn't possibly have copied George Lucas)

That's the only logical reason I can think of to explain this monstrosity.

Paolini: People are still accusing me of copying Star Wars? Well, guess what! Now I have four books, so all of your arguments are null and void? Whatcha going to now, huh? Yes, ask for forgiveness and I will be merciful!
Anti-fans: ... *still in brain-iz-dead-from-teh-awful mode*

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