Book 05 Feb 2008 08:35 pm
Brisinger, title AND date
So I said there was no title but there was a date for the newest Paolini. Well now there is a title and the date was moved!
Welcome BRISINGER on September 20th (a Saturday) in 2008.
See you then!
Tags: 10/20/08, brisinger, christopher paolini, eldest, embargo, eragon, hardcover, inheritance, knopf, paolini, release date, september 20 2008
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on 31 Jul 2008 at 10:23 am 1.Dzimarek said …
Does anyone know where I might be able to get my hands on an advance readers copy of Brisinger? I am a teacher working with gifted students and wanted to plan a project right at the beginning of the year.
Thanks
on 31 Jul 2008 at 3:17 pm 2.gracefulshrimp said …
Hi there. I highly doubt they will be doing advances of Brisingr. We have not heard anything at my bookstore about available copies. Your best bet would be to call the publisher and speak with customer service.
on 04 Sep 2008 at 8:30 pm 3.Jack T. said …
Hi, not to be rude, (and i really mean that), but if you are working with gifted students why read the Eragon Series, these books are fine for fantasy, but what do they do for geniuses? there are no real spectacular aspects of the book, it is basically is a trash novel which is fun to read over breakfast but from which students can learn nothing of value.
on 04 Sep 2008 at 10:15 pm 4.gracefulshrimp said …
Hey there Jack. I would agree with you in that, why would gifted students need to be reading that specifically. It is a fun series, but if they are gifted, then they should be reading the incredibly well written stuff. The Eragon series may be great and fun, but its no Dickens!
on 11 Sep 2008 at 11:59 am 5.Lloyd Bounds said …
I can’t wait for it to come out. I have been counting down the days since I found out the date it is coming out. Eragon and Eldest were awesome. So after I finished reading Eldest I wanted to read Brysinger. Same thing after I finished reading Eragon, I wanted to read Eldest.
on 14 Sep 2008 at 3:06 pm 6.Austin said …
Eragon rox!
on 20 Sep 2008 at 4:44 pm 7.Emily said …
Wait a second, Whats to say gifted students shouldn’t be reading something that’s fun. Although it’s fantasy and a fun read it can be analyzed just like what you consider “well written stuff”. Don’t forget these are kids and you should commend the teacher for finding lessons in things kids are going to be excited about reading. Pay closer attention to the book and you may be surprised to notice some pretty complex themes. It’s great to read Dickens, but that’s not to say you can’t get something from reading Paolini as well. To truly appreciate the written word you should enjoy all genres and fantasy writing can be one of the enjoyable because of the endless possibilities available to the author.
on 21 Sep 2008 at 8:55 pm 8.gracefulshrimp said …
Emily
What both replies were focusing on was not that gifted kids shouldn’t be reading fun things, but why should they get to read it specifically (or early as the original poster was interested in) just because they are gifted?
If they are in a gifted program, that should be challenging them, and they should use their free time to read the fun stuff. I know that teachers in my area are trying to include in summer reading lists, more titles that are still challenging to each reading level but are still fun.
Additionally, if you look at the books I review on my site, you will see that the majority are fantasy. I feel that there are plenty of well-written fantasy and science-fiction novels that would be excellent in a school setting. Nothing here is being said that it is a bad book because it is fantasy. I am just saying that for a challenging read for literary quality, it might not be the best book.
Thanks for your comment though!
on 23 Sep 2008 at 2:54 am 9.Blesssie_knivez said …
i thought its sept.20. ?!it was not released here in dumaguete, philippines because of shipment problems…huhuhui
on 23 Sep 2008 at 10:13 pm 10.OCDad said …
I have a fourth grader who’s in the gifted children program. I don’t know about other people, but I was pretty amazed AND proud when he breezed through the Harry Potter series and then the Inheritance books last year. It was these fantasy books that made reading fun for him. I don’t care if it’s Tolstoy or Paolini, as long as it does the job.
on 25 Sep 2008 at 3:33 pm 11.giftedkid said …
Well I’m A Gifted Kid And Many Kids Don’t Like To Read So Getting Them To Read Thos Book Will Make Them Enjoy Reading More
on 26 Sep 2008 at 4:56 pm 12.momo said …
Sorry, I know you already went over this, (kinda) but I still have to say; I get how just because kids are gifted doesn’t mean they should get to read books first, my problem was with y’all saying that gifted students should be reading more difficult books. I’m a gifted student, I’ve been put in accelerated programs since 2nd grade. Trust me, just because you have the ability to read “higher level” novels doesn’t mean you have any desire to. While my (ungifted, per say) friends were able to read the the first twilight book as a novel study I was reading Fahrenheit 451. As great a book that may be it didn’t (and doesn’t) hold the same appeal as twilight does. All I’m saying is even though these kids may not deserve advance reader books, they certainly deserve to read Eragon as novel study.
Just because you can does not mean you should
on 26 Sep 2008 at 9:37 pm 13.Alex said …
I really don’t understand the assumption that gifted students should be reading Dickens. I’m considered a “gifted student”, and I much prefer reading fantasy to Dickens (depending on the books, in both cases). To say it’s not Dickens, so smart people shouldn’t read it is simply literary elitism, and it’s usually born of ignorance. Admittedly, none of the Inheritance Cycle are especially well written, but there are other fantasy books, such as the Earth Sea books, by Ursula Le Guin, and they are not only well written, but of a pretty philosophical and interesting bent. They have a great deal to do with human dispositions toward death. I’m almost done, but I also have to say that the idea that all students in gifted programs are genius’s is wrong. They have often just come out of more constructive backgrounds that enable them to do better in school. Not only that, but to term someone a genius with no achievements to go on but a test is also wrong, not least because many people agree that I.Q. tests aren’t a reasonable way by which to judge brains. Especially, as mentioned before, since gifted students start out quite young, and hence, unformed. I’m in high school, and I prefer Harry Potter to Macbeth, is there something morally wrong with that?
on 26 Sep 2008 at 11:22 pm 14.Nick said …
1948: Treasure of the Sierra Madre;
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges.”
2005: Eldest;
“Barges?” said the cobbler. “Barges? We don’t want no stinking barges.”
Both classic lines. Now class, contrast the diffrences in circumstance. You have one hour, bring the characters to life in your essay.
on 26 Sep 2008 at 11:25 pm 15.Nick said …
“Thimk!”
on 29 Sep 2008 at 12:26 pm 16.Jonas said …
Not to get into this discussion, but the term gifted doesn’t always mean the children are advanced in fact quite the opposite gifted sometimes refers as a polite way of saying mental handicap. Thus making the Eragon cycle a perfect series to stimulate and challenge these young minds, food for thought mates
on 29 Sep 2008 at 10:21 pm 17.kndrmn said …
Did you know that some colleges have a hole class dedicated to Harry potter and breaking them down. Eragon it not much different just better reading.