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And now for the written "bonus content"! There's two parts - one of Murtagh and Eragon's "interaction" and then Jeod's letter. I'll post both in their entirety, no summarizing, with commentary. Thanks to Scales for transcribing everything!
( Mirror Mirror on the Wall )

And that's it. Nothing fun, nothing new, nothing to really write home about. It sets up for another book, certainly, but there's no real urgency or hook. It's just... there. And that's boring.

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About a week ago, the Murtagh Deluxe Edition was released with nary a peep. I literally walked right by the small table the bookstore had put up and was walking out of the store, thinking they didn't have it, when I actually spotted it. I wanted that book for only one thing - the lauded bonus content. Supposedly, the bonus content was "two pieces of original art" by Paolini himself, an "interaction" between Murtagh and Eragon, and a "letter" from Jeod. I went ahead and took that book to a quiet corner and spent about half an hour perusing it so I could share the content. So, first part, pictures!
( A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words )

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And here we are, the final chapter of this little novel. This is quite possibly the most infuriating chapter because of the content. I could argue that the ending leaves sequels open to interpretation, but it also still makes it feel like the ending was written with a huge villainous mustache twirl.

( To Infinity and Beyond )

In all, I think this book was a waste of time, ink, and paper. It was a cheap way of getting fans excited for something and delivering absolutely nothing. Paolini gave a big middle finger to everyone reading this book with the ending, and gave absolutely nothing in the way of indicating that there was going to be any future stories here. Indeed, the newest novel includes part of this book nearly word for word, just in a different perspective, which is about as cheap as one can get. We got nothing that couldn’t have been posted online as free content. Instead, we had a cash grab that did nothing to enrich the world built by the previous books. We got fan-fiction that we had to pay for. And it wasn’t even good fan-fiction at that.

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Aaaand part two, because limitation reasons.

( How To Trap Your Dragon )

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And here it is. Arguably the longest chapter in this novel, and arguably the most pointless. Nothing happens. Nothing is resolved. The protagonist just takes up space and whines. One character even disappears from the narrative at one point. I'm not sure what the point of this story was, but I find myself wishing it didn't exist. Be warned. It's LONG. Needing two parts long.

( Guess I'll Go Eat Wyrms )

Current Music: Enemy - Imagine Dragons

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Well, we're past the halfway mark with this one. This is the introduction to arguably the longest and most pointless story in this little novella. Wherein Eragon is needlessly dramatic and some people die, but we never knew them, so they just really ended up being cannon fodder that lets Eragon get away with being all philosophical and whiny.

( Some Of You May Die, But That Is a Risk I'm Willing To Take )

Current Music: DragonForce: Fire and the Flames

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Wherein more questions are generated than answers, and we start to get a conga line of big middle fingers to anyone who actually took the time to read this novel hoping to find anything to sate their curiosity.

( Questions That Get No Answers )

Current Location: sitting in the dark
Current Music: Hellfire - Hunchback of Notre Dame/Colm McGuinness Cover

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And thus the writing debut of Angela Paolini. It's suitably pretentious, suitably Mary-Sue, suitably whiny and bratty and entitled. If you get confused by what she writes here, don't worry. So am I. It almost feels like she wrote fanfiction for herself and forced her brother to put it in a published work just so she could point and say "Me, too!". The only character in this section I feel remotely sorry for is Elva.

( On the Nature of Sues )

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Wherein we reach my least favorite part of this entire thing. Not that I have a favorite part, but still...

( The Witch, The Rider, The Pretentious )

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Chapter three, and we're back with Eragon, now that he's done spying on a child and his "half-brother". Let's see what he says about this little trip!

( The Moral of the Story Is... )

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And now for something completely different! No, I'm joking, it's not any different at all! This story is something everyone is quite familiar with, especially since it was used verbatim (just with a different point of view) in the new Brick.

( On a Child, the Rider Spies )

Current Location: the starship enterprise
Current Music: bohemian rhapsody - colm mcguinness

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It's here at last. After promising I was going to do it, I've finally did it. The next installment of my commentary sporks, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, is now underway! We begin with chapter one, of course, so without further ado....

( On the Mountain, the Rider Whines )

Current Music: The Chemical Worker's Song - Colm McGuinness

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Now things start to get a little off the rails. Like I said, being older now, I know how bad this chapter is and it makes me wish I had taken a different route.

( Chapter Five )

Current Music: Hell is Coming With Me - Colm McGuinness

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This is where the fanfic overlapped with book two, after Murtagh and Thorn return from the Burning Plains.

( Chapter Four )

Current Music: Misty Mountains (in Dwarvish) - Colm McGuinness

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And the torment continues with the next installment of this extremely old fanfic.

( Chapter Three )

Current Music: My Mother Told Me (in Old Norse) - Colm McGuinness

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Time for another random article!

( Mercy, Dragonborn )

Current Music: Down By The River (Baldur's Gate 3 Soundtrack)

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( Are You Coming to the Tree? )

Welcome back to chapter three of the Eragon comparison.

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Hi everyone, and welcome to chapter three of the comparison, Dragon Tales! This chapter is longer than the previous one, though it won’t be as heavily edited.

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Welcome back to the self-published edition of Eragon, as today I’ll go further in chapter 2!

Content Warning: Bullying and Abuse (somewhat worse than last time)

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