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Title: Falls flat
Review: Mr. Paolini states on his wen site that, in his writing: "I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf". You ain't even close kid. You don't deserve to walk in Tolkien's shadow, and stealing ideas, names, plot devices, etc. from him will never make you a good author. Oh--one other note--some else's translation of a dark ages heroic epic is not something you should be striving to mimic from a stylistic standpoint--sort of like trying to capture the "essence" of a reproduction of a Monet. Pretty stupid when you think about it...
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