Themes of The Space Brick
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antishurtugal_rebornDuring an idle moment today I started to re-read some old sporks, including this one of an interview Paolini gave before To Toss In A Bin of Garbage came out.
Other than very ill-advisedly talking shit about FOX in public, he also talked about what the themes of his new book were supposed to be and I thought it would be interesting to have another look at it now we've actually read/sporked said book.
It’s difficult because the themes that I see in my book may not be the themes that readers get out of it. I don’t want to prejudice people against the book or for the book by saying things that may or may not be there. But…it’s a lot of the things that I’ve always been obsessed with as a writer. So questions of loyalty and responsibility. Questions of the relationship of an individual to the larger society. Also questions of bodily anatomy, and how do you mentally deal with it when your body isn’t the way you want it to be, whether because of choices you’ve made already, or external forces. You know, how do you deal with that, and how do you move forward and grow from that. Also, in some ways the destructiveness of anger is a bit of a theme. But overall, I’m trying to tell a good, fun, and entertaining story that will hopefully touch people in the same way that the Inheritance Cycle has. You know I certainly had some big themes in the Inheritance Cycle, but I was always focused too on tying that into a story that people would actually enjoy.
Hoo boy, where does one even begin?
He also whines about how FOX owns all the merchandising and film rights to the Cycle, which leads me to wonder why he doesn't just buy said rights back if he doesn't think they're going to do anything with them.
Other than very ill-advisedly talking shit about FOX in public, he also talked about what the themes of his new book were supposed to be and I thought it would be interesting to have another look at it now we've actually read/sporked said book.
It’s difficult because the themes that I see in my book may not be the themes that readers get out of it. I don’t want to prejudice people against the book or for the book by saying things that may or may not be there. But…it’s a lot of the things that I’ve always been obsessed with as a writer. So questions of loyalty and responsibility. Questions of the relationship of an individual to the larger society. Also questions of bodily anatomy, and how do you mentally deal with it when your body isn’t the way you want it to be, whether because of choices you’ve made already, or external forces. You know, how do you deal with that, and how do you move forward and grow from that. Also, in some ways the destructiveness of anger is a bit of a theme. But overall, I’m trying to tell a good, fun, and entertaining story that will hopefully touch people in the same way that the Inheritance Cycle has. You know I certainly had some big themes in the Inheritance Cycle, but I was always focused too on tying that into a story that people would actually enjoy.
Hoo boy, where does one even begin?
He also whines about how FOX owns all the merchandising and film rights to the Cycle, which leads me to wonder why he doesn't just buy said rights back if he doesn't think they're going to do anything with them.
