The Inheritance Cycle: List of unnecessary geological comparisons in Inheritance

This is a list of the times when something that is not metal, stone, or gem is compared to something that is metal, stone, or gem in order to describe it. Mostly these are similes in the story. It doesn't count if he's actually talking about a literal sapphire or diamond or whatever, but it does count if he's invoking it in a comparison.

(I might note he compared stuff to plants and rivers and whatnot a lot too, but the geological comparisons were more common.)

"Bronze": 1
"Clay": 1
"Coal": 3
"Coral": 1
"Copper": 3
"Crystal": 2
"Diamond": 6
"Emerald": 6
"Gem": 8
"Glass": 9
"Gold": 1
"Granite": 1
"Iron": 12
"Ivory": 3
"Jewel": 3
"Lodestone": 1
"Malachite": 1
"Marble": 2
"Metal": 4
"Moonstone": 1
"Obsidian": 1
"Opal": 1
"Pewter": 1
"Pottery": 1
"Quicksilver": 2
"Rock": 2
"Ruby": 5
"Rust": 1
"Sandstone": 1
"Silver": 5
"Slate": 1
"Steel": 4
"Stone/Stony": 12

So, as you see, "Iron" and "Stone/Stony" were tied for the winner, with "Glass" in a distant third. Remember, gems and stones were described a lot more in the book, but they were ACTUAL stones and whatnot.

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