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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3105139" data-attributes="member: 27051">No, but if you want originality, Eragon is not the place to look for it.  It's a legitimate complaint.Except that he didn't spend the time and energy to actually get it published.  His parents are publishers, and they published it for him, and then used their contacts to get it sold to a larger publishing house, with the accompanying hype.  Besides, just because a kid goes to the trouble of writing something, that doesn't make it good, worthwhile or deserving of appreciation (and if it does, then I have a sequel to LotR that I wrote when I was 10 that deserves a Hugo award or two... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Um, what?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Bah.  Humbug.  No free lunches.  If you can't take the heat, stay out of the furnace.  You can't break an omelette without counting a few eggs.  Let sleeping dogs leap.  And other mangled figures of eight.  Speech.  I mean speech.</blockquote>