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[Voxr]

Eragon. The worst case of plaguarism I have ever seen. It even has a scene copied and pasted in from an Eddings book in it. The author just changed 2-3 words in it.

Eragon needs to die tbh

[Rawgrim]

Eragon needs to die tbh

 

Yup. It was word for word Star Wars: A New Hope. Set in a Tolkien world.

[Voxr]

Yup. It was word for word Star Wars: A New Hope. Set in a Tolkien world.

That would have made a better ad tagline. I may have enjoyed it if I looked at it that way. 

 

LOL

[Rawgrim]

Well it is. Starts off identically. Princess is being chased by the dark lords number 1 henchman. He wants something she has that is dangerous to the Dark Lord. She manages to send it away just as she gets captured. It ends up with an orphan farmboy living with his uncle. An old hermit lives nearby. Just happens to be the last of an ancient order of knights. Uncle gets killed by the evil minions. Old knight starts teaching the farmboy about magic. He even has a glowing sword. They join the rebellion. They set out to free the princess from the Dark Lords fortress. Knight sacrifices himself in a fight vs the Dark Lord's right hand man.

[X Equestris]

Yup. It was word for word Star Wars: A New Hope. Set in a Tolkien world.

Yeah, and it didn't really start deviating from Star Wars until the third book.

[Rawgrim]

Yeah, and it didn't really start deviating from Star Wars until the third book.

 

I guess he had caught up with Return of the Jedi?

[UltimaBACON]

Unfortunately, I actually had to read Atlas Shrugged for a class. Yeah ...

[Isichar]

Anyone ever read Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America by Ann Coulter?

 

It looks like garbage of the highest caliber. Then again it's Ann Coulter so I suppose the goes without saying.

[Exile Isan]

I prefer print books. I like the feel of books in my hand, the smell of the paper, and the way my favorites look on my shelves.  Although, sometimes I will get books on my Kindle when I don't want people to know what I'm reading.   *downloads children's books for herself to read*

[Han Shot First]

A Catcher in the Rye

 

Still not sure what all the fuss is about. 

[Isichar]

I prefer print books. I like the feel of books in my hand, the smell of the paper, and the way my favorites look on my shelves.  Although, sometimes I will get books on my Kindle when I don't want people to know what I'm reading.   *downloads children's books for herself to read*

 

This is what I'm saying. Especially an old musty book. Love it

 

Collections of book series are especially satisfying to have on your shelves. Unless you're moving... then not so much fun

[Exile Isan]

This is what I'm saying. Especially an old musty book. Love it

 

Collections of book series are especially satisfying to have on your shelves. Unless you're moving... then not so much fun

 

Yeah, I just bought a house and will be moving into it soon. I am really not looking forward to moving all my books. Like hundreds of books (and CD's, cause I have a huge collection of those too). Fortunately, the new house is not far from this one, so I don't have to take them very far. 

[Isichar]

Yeah, I just bought a house and will be moving into it soon. I am really not looking forward to moving all my books. Like hundreds of books (and CD's, cause I have a huge collection of those too). Fortunately, the new house is not far from this one, so I don't have to take them very far. 

 

a few separate loads in smaller bins is what I did. Still a hassle but doable.

 

That's what sucks most about collections

[Exile Isan]

a few separate loads in smaller bins is what I did. Still a hassle but doable.

 

That's what sucks most about collections

 

Yeah, I've been saving smaller boxes that are longer (19 to 20 inches), but not very deep (9 to 10 inches) to put my books and music in. A lot more boxes, but of a manageable size. What really sucks about it is that I move boxes around for a living and now I'm going to have to do it in my off hours too. 

[Isichar]

Yeah, I've been saving smaller boxes that are longer (19 to 20 inches), but not very deep (9 to 10 inches) to put my books and music in. A lot more boxes, but of a manageable size. What really sucks about it is that I move boxes around for a living and now I'm going to have to do it in my off hours too. 

 

Haha I get how that is X3 Well good luck. Hopefully it isn't too rough on you!

[Gruntburner]

Unfortunately, I actually had to read Atlas Shrugged for a class. Yeah ...

 

 

Finally, someone else who understands. Not just pretentious, but completely idiotic. The only reason that the main characters are considered awesome in-story is because everyone else in the story is a blithering idiot of a strawman.

[Exile Isan]

Haha I get how that is X3 Well good luck. Hopefully it isn't too rough on you!

 

Thanks.

[LPPrince]

The Outsiders was a fantastic novel.

 

That Was Then, This Is Now was its sequel. It sucked hard.

[Exile Isan]

I also didn't like the book Like Water for Chocolate. My first foray into magical realism and I hated it. I'm really truly amazed I finished it, because usually if I don't like a book I'll just stop reading it. Like Threads and Flames, a young adult fiction book about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that took forever to go anywhere. Three hundred and 90 pages, I think I read about a third of it, and she still hadn't even been hired at the factory, she had barely made it to the U.S. I stopped reading it at that point. There are better books about said fire.

[PhroXenGold]

Yup. It was word for word Star Wars: A New Hope. Set in a Tolkien world.

 

To be fair, Star Wars: A New Hope was just The Hidden Fortress set IN SPACE!

[Voxr]

To be fair there really are no "original stories". Just original ways to arrange the blocks.

 

Everything is derivative of something else. 

[PhroXenGold]

Finally, someone else who understands. Not just pretentious, but completely idiotic. The only reason that the main characters are considered awesome in-story is because everyone else in the story is a blithering idiot of a strawman.

 

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

 

- John Rogers