Why I hate fantasy books

This book Brisingr has convinced me never to read a fantasy book again. I really hate how the plot follows the same formulaic plot somewhat like the hero quest. Actually I don't really like the idea of a formula to a book, even the hero quest. It makes books very predicatble and with the fact that the protagonist is ALWAYS perfectly moral which means that as i have stated in my past post the hero always finds the ideal solution to a problem that works out best for everybody (even some times the antagonist) so you always know what is going to happen in the end. Sometimes they are able to keep you interested and hae some unpredictablility like in Harry Potter where they kill a major character in most of the books at the end of the series so your always guessing who is going to die even if Harry still emerges triumphant. Harry Potter is the only example of a fantasy book that I still like because they make all the characters so much a part of who Harry is that when one of them dies it feels like part of Harry and the series dies as well. Another thing that I dont like about fantasy novels is that you don't really care about the characters because they have no depth (again i believe Harry Potter is exempt from this problem somewhat). In Brisingr i really wouldn't care if halfway through the novel Eragon caught fire and died and the Antagonist won the war, this is because they make him such a perfect character that the reader cannot connect to him. Though I must admit if Eragon's cousin Roran died I would be mildly pissed off because he had character depth.
Beyond the typical problems with fantasy novels and their formulaic plots is the actual idea of a fantasy novel. I like things to be set in the real world not some crazy offshoot of midieval life with dragons and magic. This just seems like things that distract from the plot without really adding much more. So much of the stuff simply seems to be for the "WOW" factor like if a little kid said "Its like knights in shining armor only they have dragons instead of horses and the ride them and fight on them!". That doesnt really change the novel in many fantasy books you could easily replace the word dragon with the word horse and the phrase breathed fire upon with ran over, and the book woud be virtually unchanged in its plot. I do understand that these books are written for children and I should view them as that but even as a child I was bored by these formulaic plots and predictability of fantasy/sci-fi books but I couldnt find a way to put that into words.

Predictablility in books...

so I am reading the book Brisingr, and it seems centered around the battle between good and evil, which is very typical of a sci-fi/fanstasy book. Last week I complained about how the main character of the book is far too perfect, well he was actually able to kill someone who wasnt fighting him, he killed a soldier who was in retreat from a battle. I am glad that this happened because it makes Eragon a more unpredictable character, which creates conflict and some supence in the novel. I do wish they did a little more explaining the antagonist because all they have really told you about the evil character in the book is that he once was good and now he is evil. This lack of an explanation about this character makes him not mysterious but very uninteresting.
Some things I do like about the book are that not ALL the characters are either perfectly good or impossibly evil (without explanations) some of the characters most notably Roran, Eragons cousin. Roran is a good character but he enjoys fighting in battle and getting revenge for the death of his parents (or something like that). The fact that he likes what he does adds character depth, and a little spice to the story. The world that the author has created is also very interesting, the author developed a complex mythology of magic and the magic language. The author makes all that deals with magic in this world very complex and many mistakes are made that result badly for those involved. This also adds a little bit of surprise to Brisingr.

Overall I would say my main complaint with the book is that it is woefully predictable, but in the end it is worth my time to read because it is a fun to read book.

New Book

I started reading a new book called "Brisingr". It is the third installment in the Eragon trilogy. I tried reading the second book but it really bored me and it followed two story lines one of which was incredibly poorly thought out. I do enjoy reading this book but I also have some major complaints about it. Like many fantasy books this suffer from having the protagonist being far too morally perfect to the point that it becomes horribly predictable. Here is an example. The main charactor had a dillema he had captured a person who had schemed against his brother and killed some of the people from his village. But being the morally perfect person he decides that he will not kill the man. So he takes this person with him to come up with some punishment, and eventually decides that the man's only punishment is that he is not allowed to see his daughter again. Even though his daughter was the motivation for all his actions, this punishment for the person seems far too correct. I do understand that this book was written with children reading it in mind but I would like it to be a little less simple minded and idealistic.