The real science fiction classics

[rabid_fox]

Go Go Eragon he's our man if he can't do it GREAT!

[bill]

Go Go Eragon he's our man if he can't do it GREAT!

But is it art?

[rabid_fox]

I can't remember clit about that book except the awful

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

In it's defense, Eragon isn't as bad as the Baldur's gate novelization by Phillip Athans.

[Jer-oh-me]

What it is, Eragon, is pedestrian and it's neither very good nor terribly bad. And certainly didn't deserve a movie, though it got the movie it deserved, if that makes any sense.

[superluser]

we should start a "real literature" thread and see how snobby it could possibly get

Yeah, you don't want that.  I've got some strong opinions on James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon that would probably raise the bar for snobbery pretty quickly.

In it's defense, Eragon isn't as bad as the Baldur's gate novelization by Phillip Athans.

That is frightening.

[Brunhidden]

it also proves that as a society anyone discussing dickens is surrounded by five people who think the name is hilarious

this needs to be studied, perhaps we can create a pesticide to help

[rabid_fox]

Darn it, today I discussed Dickens in a room with four people.

In fairness, three of them were teenagers?

Oh well.

The jury is still out.