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Brandon's chat room
« on: July 12, 2010, 04:07:35 PM »
So Brandon had a chat room last night, and Dragonmount.com was kind enough to copy it all.
Here it is for anyone interested:
http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,59600.msg1741700.html#msg1741700

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 05:59:32 PM »
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*
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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 09:28:49 PM »
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*

*drools all over Christopher Paolini's writing so that no one else has to suffer through it*

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2010, 09:59:34 PM »
Wolfstar is a hero among men. Truly! My former theater director had to do an adaptation of Eragon for the stage once. It...did not work. at all. Mostly because their objective is revealed futile halfway through and its a lot of wandering around. Deeply saddening to audiences.

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2010, 10:02:03 PM »
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*

Oh... this can't be good.. you do realize that such a vast difference in creative talent, originality, and pure writing ability brought within such a close proximity could very well rip a hole in the fabric of reality, right?

If only the ostrich incident had happened in reality, and not the twisted world within which I live...
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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2010, 10:13:29 PM »
Like it or not, Paolini has sold more books. So there are a large number of Paolini fans who will go to the panel...and get to hear Brandon and Patrick be awesome.
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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2010, 10:22:55 PM »
Well, that's where we come in, right? The mob of devoted fans, dedicated to spreading the word of Sandersonism to the (insert number) corners of the earth?

In fact, I issue a challenge! Everybody hold on a second while I make a thread for my challenge.

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2010, 03:18:00 AM »
Like it or not, Paolini has sold more books. So there are a large number of Paolini fans who will go to the panel...and get to hear Brandon and Patrick be awesome.

I'm just thanking the Forgotten Gods that Stephanie Meyer isn't included with her glampires.  If that signing were being held in my backyard, even with Brandon there, I would not attend.
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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2010, 05:23:57 AM »

I'm just thanking the Forgotten Gods that Stephanie Meyer isn't included with her glampires.  If that signing were being held in my backyard, even with Brandon there, I would not attend.

That's why I'm saying after we take down Paolini, Meyers is next to go. THEY WILL FEEL OUR WRATH.


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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2010, 06:04:10 AM »
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*

Oh... this can't be good.. you do realize that such a vast difference in creative talent, originality, and pure writing ability brought within such a close proximity could very well rip a hole in the fabric of reality, right?

If only the ostrich incident had happened in reality, and not the twisted world within which I live...
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*

*drools all over Christopher Paolini's writing so that no one else has to suffer through it*

I'm doing this for your own good!
Hey, I like the Inheritance books!  It was my first epic fantasy book!
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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2010, 07:17:08 AM »
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*

Oh... this can't be good.. you do realize that such a vast difference in creative talent, originality, and pure writing ability brought within such a close proximity could very well rip a hole in the fabric of reality, right?

If only the ostrich incident had happened in reality, and not the twisted world within which I live...
Brandon and Christopher Paolini on one panel?  *drool*

*drools all over Christopher Paolini's writing so that no one else has to suffer through it*

I'm doing this for your own good!
Hey, I like the Inheritance books!  It was my first epic fantasy book!

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2010, 08:25:39 AM »


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what he said, man!

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2010, 08:31:42 AM »
 >:(
You guys can be real snobs sometimes.
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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2010, 09:53:52 AM »
Now here is where I guess I've got to come in and tell you why I can't take Paolini's work seriously. Its not an issue of snobbiness, I just read that first book and it made me very very sad. I was seeing bits and pieces of cliched plots that had been done before put together in what was honestly kind of a haphazard manner. I mean, from the whole "My uncle who raised me is dead I must quest for understanding, also run for my life" thing was a little Luke Skywalker meets...well everyone else. And the fact that the magical mystical [noun] him and Old Man Mentorpants are search-questing for for hundreds and hundreds of pages ends up being...well, completely redundant is a huge letdown for the readers.

I've found that the best speculative fiction is the kind that is subtle with its cliches, the kind that doesn't immediately announce itself as something you've seen before. Inheritance instead, for me at least, waved a big flashy sign saying "YARR, HERE THERE BE BADLY REHASHED TOLKIEN!"

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Re: Brandon's chat room
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2010, 10:10:42 AM »
>:(
You guys can be real snobs sometimes.

I really do like Paolini's books.  I'm stuck in the story.  He is not however a good author.
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