Christopher Paolini
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Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California on November 17, 1983, but grew up primarily in Paradise Valley, Montana. He was home schooled and at the age of 15, graduated from high school through an accredited correspondence course at American School in Chicago, Illinois. He decided to write näytä lisää a book and after three years of writing and editing, Eragon was self-published in 2001. The Paolini family spent the following year promoting the book themselves by giving presentations to the local library and high school and then eventually branching out to libraries, bookstores, and schools across the United States. After his step-son read a copy of the book, author Carl Hiaasen brought Eragon to the attention of publisher Alfred A. Knopf, who acquired the rights to publish Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance Cycle in 2003. The other books in the cycle include Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. Eragon was made into a movie in December 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Inheritance Books 1-3 4 kappaletta
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- Paolini, Christopher James
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- 1983-11-17
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- male
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- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- California, USA
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paradise Valley, Montana, USA - Koulutus
- homeschooled (American School of Correspondence)
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- novelist
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- Paolini, Kenneth (father)
Hodgkinson, Talita (mother)
Paolini, Angela (sister) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Paolini was raised in the Paradise Valley, Montana area. His family members include his parents, Kenneth Paolini and Talita Hodgkinson, and his sister, Angela Paolini. Home schooled for the duration of his education, Paolini graduated from high school at the age of 15 through a set of accredited correspondence courses from American School in Chicago, Illinois. Following graduation, he started his work on what would become the novel Eragon and its sequel Eldest, both set in the kingdom of Alagaësia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop...Christopher James Paolini (born November 17, 1983) is an American author. He is best known for The Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance, and the follow up short story collection The Fork, the Witch and the Worm. His first science fiction novel, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, will be published on September 15, 2020. He lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he wrote his first book.
Following his high school graduation, he started his work on what would become the novel Eragon, the first of a four-book series set in the mythical land of Alagaësia.
In 2002, Eragon was published for the first time by Paolini International LLC, Paolini's parents' publishing company. To promote the book, Paolini toured over 135 schools and libraries, discussing reading and writing, all the while dressed in "a medieval costume of red shirt, billowy black pants, lace-up boots, and a jaunty black cap." He drew the cover art for the first edition of Eragon, which featured Saphira's eye, along with the maps on the inside covers of his books.
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Warrior Boy and Dragon Girl do pointless things (Brisingr) thread. ***SPOILER WARNING!***, Hogwarts Express (helmikuu 2009)
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I wasn’t far into Eragon before I realized that I was reading the book I always wanted to write as a kid. It is also a book that, had it been around when I was a kid, would have driven me mad with jealousy and sent me searching for Christopher Paolini, hell bent of killing him and stealing his identity.
Thankfully, I’m older now and past such ridiculous ideas. Ahem…
Eragon is a fun, familiar story which has enough freshness about it to keep any fantasy fan, and most other readers, interested. In the main, it is a chosen-one story which has clearly been influenced by some of the greats in the genre. At the same time, Paolini does enough with the characters and plot to keep the book from sampling overmuch, giving it a life of its own. Read more
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Thankfully, I’m older now and past such ridiculous ideas. Ahem…
Eragon is a fun, familiar story which has enough freshness about it to keep any fantasy fan, and most other readers, interested. In the main, it is a chosen-one story which has clearly been influenced by some of the greats in the genre. At the same time, Paolini does enough with the characters and plot to keep the book from sampling overmuch, giving it a life of its own. Read more
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The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air -- and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaesia. So begins an epic journey into lands both familiar and untravelled, where Murtagh and Thorn must use every weapon in their arsenal, from brains to brawn, to find and outwit a mysterious witch. A witch who is much more than she seems.… (lisätietoja)
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If I could choose one word to describe it, it would be “bloated”, terribly bloated. The book checks in at around 900 pages. It could easily have been reduced to 600 pages. Now, I don’t mind long books. I read Peter Hamilton’s 3,000 page Night’s Dawn trilogy. This book was simply way longer than it needed to be. I enjoy reading before sleeping and can usually go through a 500 page book in 10-12 days. It took me forever to finish this book because I simply began falling to sleep after reading 20 pages or so. It dragged terribly.
In addition, it was needlessly confusing, introducing an assortment of alien races and using different names to identify them. Every race seemed to have 2-3 different names, depending upon who was speaking.
The world building was not bad and the science fiction was pretty hard. In fact, there are a couple of appendices with charts and tables that purport to explain the science behind FTL travel. Not being a physicist, I cant comment on their accuracy, other than to say, if they were accurate, we would have FTL travel.
I can’t recommend spending the time required to wade through this one.… (lisätietoja)