i never get tired of discussing eragon or goodkind. for the same sort of reasons though (both negative) and THAT worries me. im heading for bitter old cat woman land
and i agree with that. lots of people do write books that young, i guess people who think it's amazing are the ones who didn't do it? which is fair enough, but just because one person didn't do it, doesn't mean a lot of others did. i don't tend to be that impressed by something like writing a book, unless they happened to write an amazing george rr martin type book that makes me jealous. then i'd be impressed, and jealous!
but i don't see eragon as being in that league at all. or maybe im just harder to impress!
and i agree with that too. when you enter the world of publishing, for wahtever reason, you're going to be compared to the people you're sold alongside. and if your work doesn't compeat, it doesn't matter how old or young you are, you will be compared because you're alongside. for me, his age just isnt a factor. he's young, his book is flawed. there are many older writers with flawed books on the shelves as well. do we say cut them a break? nope!
maybe we should? i dunno.