What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[Valarya]

Paolini's elves started out elsewhere on some other continent and came across the seas to where dragons lived. By ship yes, but what options were there really?

The option is to completely leave out the history of the elves and just say they'd been around longer than humans and no one knows from whence they came. (see what i did there?)

In tolkienverse elves start out east, then go west then east. Humans start out east, go shorter distance west then stop. In Paoliniverse, elves start west then go east. Humans start out west then go east.

Okay 'thul beings... now you're just getting nit-picky, lol.

Book 4 has a number of traits that are even more unique than those used in the preceding ones... A good part of it can probably be attributed to the fact that he has developed further as an author.

Ahh, good. I figured he would have grown much as a writer and had hoped book 4 was the best. This gives me high hopes.

oh, and 'thul will give an argument for why all stories are essentially the same... Its silly, but its there:

All stories are, when boiled down fully, a fight of good vs. evil/right vs. wrong. It might not be named so, but that is the essence of it all.

Except Martin! Hahah