So, unfortunately, my reading of Artemis Fowl was interrupted, and I am at this point, unable to complete it...That series will, sadly, have to wait for another time. On the bright side, I will begin assessing the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, a prolific British author. I am studying Stevenson, his life and writing in one of my English classes at my university. The first two stories that I will be reading of his are "The Plague-Cellar" and The Pentland Rising: A Page of History 1666. A little later on, we will be reading Treasure Island, so keep posted.
I forgot to mention something I noticed about Eragon in my last post. If any of you have read David Edding's Belgariad series, then you might have realized that many ideas about the workings of magic in Eragon follow along with the Belgariad . For example, the "Be Not" principle is a very important one in book three of the Belgariad and has some of the same effects that it does in Inheritance (book four of the cycle). "Magic" in Eragon can be equated to "sorcery" in The Belgariad . Magic in both series depends upon your personal strength. You can't bring people back from the dead (this is a common rule throughout all of the magical fantasy). Another similarity is that there are different kinds of magic. Shades are spirits trapped in the mortal world in Eragon . Eddings actually portrays basically the same idea as an actual demon. Mispronunciation or breaking of concentration will cause the Shade or demon to destroy the ma...
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