Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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.

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