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What book do you feel deserved a much better media adaptation than what it got? (literature.cafe)

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I am forever bitter about Eragon..

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eragon was not a great book. It was a decent premise, the characters and story had potential. Given it was written by a teenager, it's very impressive.

But Mr Paolini must look back on it and cringe so bad. I'd actually like him to go back and reboot it now as a mature author.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I mean are you judging it as the target market?

It was a young adult book. I refer to it as baby's first high fantasy.

Do 8-12 year old boys that will love super long high fantasy later in life probably still love it? I would bet money.

But of course as adults we look down on the young adult book. Basically all young adult books seem not well made as adults.

I know a handful of exceptions, but they stand out in my head as remarkable because they were exceptions.