An Archive of Sporkages Past

thegharialguy wrote in antishurtugal, 2017-09-15 17:51:00

Brisingr Spork: Chapter 33: Kiss Me Sweet.

Hello, I’m the Gharial Guy embarking on my first spork. And I got a real special one here today. Perhaps the shortest chapter Paolini has ever written. Normally brevity is something you’d pray for in Paolini’s work but even when I first read this one my was “Seriously? What was that for?” It always struck me that the shortness of this chapter wouldn’t be as noticeable if it was used as a cap stone to the previous chapter. Give us just one chapter with a clear focus on the feelings of the “characters important to Eragon”. But I suppose it’s Paolini’s strict policy to keep only one perspective to one character per chapter. Personally I think that’s a bit limiting as really what’s the difference? You still have those diamond ellipses anyway conveying the change in perspective. Just save yourself a page break and combine the similar elements into a more cohesive reading block. Ultimately it’s a very minor and mostly irrelevant point but I’m curious to know what other people’s opinions on it are (of course the best decision would obviously be to cut these two irrelevant alternate perspective chapters and pretty much this entire book).

That’s it from Kiss Me Sweet. I managed to ramble on twice as long as the chapter's word count. There’s some interesting ideas in there but ultimately, like almost every single thing in this book, it goes absolutely nowhere and achieves nothing. I bet I could tear this leaf out of the book, give it to a fan and well over 90% of them wouldn’t even realize its missing.