That's not what I said. Read ALL of my post, don't just pick out two words and say I'm horrible because of them. I liked the book(s) overall but the ending of Inheritance was just disapointing (I think) and, as I said before, that is not totally due to the fact that the very end is unorginal. The end just drags ooon and oooooooon tying up everything you wanted to know, didn't want to know and really didn't care to know about everything in the series. There is not supposed to be one hundred sum pages after the climax, there's supposed to be like 2-20, less or more if you can do it well and make it interesting. On the other end of the spectrum Warriors: The Last Hope ended much too quickly for my liking.
But I digress. I think my books are good and they are definately not totally original. Very little is totally original (I think I mentioned that before too) especially in fantasy terms. I like the Inheritance cycle (I own all four books too) and its a good series. I just think Paolini needs to branch out in his storywriting skills and become MORE original and stop trying to copy endings.
I've also read another book series called
The Archives or Anthropos that is very similar to Narnia in some respects, but the author makes the books his own. He actually said (paraphrased), "I tried copying at first, but I quickly learned that copying gets you nowhere." he branches out and- though his books have quite a few similarities to Narnia and LOTR- adds his own new things into the story. He makes it his own story. Those are some of my very favorite books, right there with Narnia and LOTR.
Trust me, I KNOW that books that aren't totally original can be good. Paolini just goes over the top sometimes in my opinion.