Christopher Paolini
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Sep 10, 2026
Robert EvansHOST
... on a platter.
Robert EvansHOST
Versus Christopher Paolini, the Eragon kid, whose parents own like a publishing house.
Robert EvansHOST
And so like when he's a kid and he's probably not really ready, he gets like a book published and they're able to like really push it to be very popular.
David BellGUEST
Right.
Ellie HewerHOST
[laughs]
Rachel InnesHOST
Um, just quickly, the people who have inspired mine, Christopher Paolini.
Ellie HewerHOST
Oh, Eragon, yeah.
Rachel InnesHOST
Eragon.
Ellie HewerHOST
Very, I feel it's just interesting, I have a lot of the same ones on the list.
Rachel InnesHOST
Yeah.
Ellie HewerHOST
Christopher Paolini, Suzanne Collins, um, Stephenie Meyer, Meyer.
Rachel InnesHOST
Yeah.
Mary LewisHOST
My two older boys got hooked by Harry Potter.
Mary LewisHOST
My youngest boy got hooked by Aragon by Christopher Paolini.
Mary LewisHOST
And Paolini is P-A-O-L-I-N-I.
Mary LewisHOST
And Aragon is about dragons.
speaker_8HOST
Dyer's selection for this grim category is the 1990 film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
speaker_8HOST
And Katie's pick is the adaptation of Christopher Paolini's young adult fantasy phenomenon, Ergon.
speaker_8HOST
We really need to break down the specific mechanics of why these films were physically painful for the audiences who loved the books.
speaker_7HOST
Let's start with Dyer's trauma regarding the bonfire of the vanities.
BethHOST
The first book I DNFed pains me.
BethHOST
Oh, Eragon, Inheritance by Christopher Paolini.
BethHOST
While I was in the gymnasium academic high school, still in my reading era, a friend of mine told me I should read it because she liked it.
BethHOST
So I went to her school library and checked out what I thought was the first book in the series.
Pat BarberHOST
Uh, w- with-
Jason LewisGUEST
Christopher Paolini
Pat BarberHOST
Yeah, about the dragon.
Pat BarberHOST
Christopher Paolini wrote it when he was like 15.
Pat BarberHOST
But do you remember the, the line that, uh [laughs] yeah, right.
Pat BarberHOST
Um, the line that, uh ...
Branden UshioGUEST
So Aragon is a dragon rider fantasy story.
Branden UshioGUEST
It was written by Christopher Paolini.
Branden UshioGUEST
His first book was written when he was 14 years old.
Branden UshioGUEST
And it just blew up.
DarienGUEST
You can find me and my best friend Lucy Hart over on Eragon and Back Again.
DarienGUEST
We're talking about Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, AKA the other flop of a movie from the early 2000s that Disney has decided they're going to remake for a fantasy audience.
DarienGUEST
[clapping] Yes.
DarienGUEST
Check it out there.