Murtagh Throb Test

[torylltales]

There's a running joke among antis that Paolini has a bad habit of misusing – and over-using – the word 'throb' (and "crimson", "orb", and "thrust"). So I decided to search my ebook copy of Murtagh to see how he does.


13 throbs. Which is lower than Inheritance, if I recall, but higher than many other fantasy authors. And here's the list:

• throbbing embers
• A warning throb
• a throbbing headache
• the bone beneath the old cut throbbed '
• His veins throbbed
• His knee throbbed
• his right elbow throbbed
• His left knee throbbed
• the throbbing in his left wrist
• His eyeballs throbbed
• his throbbing temple
• The world throbbed
• a throbbing rhythm

UPDATE: by request, I searched for the phrase "sense of", as that's another one Paolini overuses. Brace yourself, people. It's...

...

84.

EIGHTY FOUR uses of the phrase "sense of".

 

I'm going to need a coffee before we start this spork. Or a wine. Or several wines.

 

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Comments

[oblakom]

This book is kinda funny to me, because in my story Thorn is, like, squeaky-close with the Ra'zac and basically an adopted member of the family and by virtue of being this close he also loves caves.
So we have canon Thorn who is horribly claustrophobic and my fanon Thorn who is like "Ok, how did you manage to squeeze in there? Are you stuck?"

[ultimate_cheetah]

That is funny. I always thought the Lethrblaka and Shruikan would form a bond because, when Shruikan was hatched, he was around no other dragons. The Lethrblaka would have had to teach Shruikan how to fly well, and would have also been the ones with experience to take care of a hatchling.

[oblakom]

Technically there was also Morzan's dragon, who shouldn't have been insane by then