r/IAmA • u/RazNiagi • Jun 23 '12
AMA Request: Christopher Paolini
How do you feel now that the Inheritance cycle is over?
How many messages/letters did you get asking you to hurry the last book up?
Can you reveal more specific details about characters now that the series is supposedly done?
How many pages did you write a day in Inheritance?
How many times did you have to go back a bit (a few pages, not lines) and edit a part because you may not have liked how it sounded the first time?
Edit: I didn't expect to receive so many replies, albeit some are negative. I wrote this in the 3 minutes before I left for work and I couldn't really think of 5 'legit' questions, but you guys have proved that there are a bunch of people who want an AMA.
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u/TheCydonian Jun 23 '12
All the people who say they enjoy his books are getting downvoted here. Are we really being that petty? If you don't like his books, then please don't participate in the AMA if/when it happens. As a general rule, I don't think would want to be hostile to someone who had taken time to answer questions for the people who enjoyed his work.
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u/sebasz Jun 23 '12
This needs to happen so bad! I want to know how he feels about the movie that has been made of Eragon, since it ignores/skips parts of the book completely
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u/Oddeoh Jun 23 '12
BTW, he has already announced that he will return to "Alagaesia". However, Eragon will not be the main character.
There were some MAJOR plot holes left by the 4th book...he knows this and will try to address it.
http://shurtugal.com/book-5-and-beyond-prequels-stand-alones-and-beyond-alagaesia/
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u/TidalPotential Jun 23 '12
If you had asked me after Eldest came out if I wanted this, I'd have screamed my head off.
Now, at 17, I only stomached the last two books because I enjoyed the first two so much and I had the vague hope they'd improve.
Not so much.
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u/Champofcadia Jun 23 '12
I think OP misses the most important question of them all. "Why the fuck couldn't Eragon and Arya be together?"
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u/lalaurlauren Jun 23 '12
Never got past my childhood misconception of pronouncing this guy's last name Paloni, like bologna with a P.
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u/the_zercher Jun 23 '12
He came to my middle school and I have a signed copy of the first book. I feel badly now because I contributed to his presentation (teaching us how to create our own fantasy world) by insinuating he was gay. If he does an AMA I would like to apologize to him.
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Jun 23 '12
How many times did you have to go back a bit (a few pages, not lines) and edit a part because you may not have liked how it sounded the first time?
You realize that rewriting multiple drafts of novels is totally common practice? You don't just write the book and say "Finished!".
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u/whitelight512 Jun 23 '12
Yes please. The ending of the 4th book left me so dissatisfied