Rating: Summary: I Loved Eragon! Review: This exhilarating book is about Eragon, a destitute boy who goes hunting in the jagged mountains to get food for his family. Eragon finds a blue rock, and tries to sell it for food, but before he manages to, it hatches into a sapphire-colored dragon, named Saphira. When alien-like creatures, called the Ra'zac, kill his family, Eragon decides to get revenge on the Empire. Along the way Eragon and Saphira have many breathtaking adventures. He meets an aged man, named Brom, who teaches him magic and swordfighting. He gets an ancient sword with a destiny of blood. He gets captured by the Empire, and escapes with an Elf. At the end of the book, he joins the Varden, a band of people bonded by the will to defeat the Empire.I liked the book because it was very creative and it had innumerable imaginative ideas. Christopher Paolini's descriptions were perfect - I could see the story better than if it was a movie... It was as if I were really there. (...)
Rating: Summary: An Unbelievable Journey! Review: Christopher Paolini has an ability that few story weavers possess...the ability to engage a readers mind to the point that they are no longer merely reading a story, they are escaped into a world that has been created and to which they have become intimately involved with the outcome. Mr. Paolini creates fictions that seem so real it is difficult for the reader to forget that these worlds do not exist and these events did not really occur outside of the vividness of his or her mind when they put the book down. I found Eragon a welcome and intriguing escape from the mundaness of everyday struggles. I must say that my only dismay comes from the fact that I must endure such a long wait before I can travel to Alagaesia again!
Rating: Summary: Obviously writen by a 15 year old Review: This book may have a good plot line, but by chapter three I began dreading picking this book up to read each night. I picked this book up because I am an imense Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl fan. I was very disapointed. The subject (and typically the first word) of every sentance in this book is a proper noun. Trying to keep track of the he, she, they and its quickly became annoying. Also, the author can't mention any inatomate object without giving you several long metaphores or symolies to describe it. This book reads as though it was writin by someone who has never heard of any literay devices other than symolies and metaphores and believes writing a good story means cramming as many of them into it as humanly possible. Sometimes less is more.
Rating: Summary: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!! Review: This book is amazing. And the author wrote it when he was 15. This book always leaves you in a cliff hanger. Eragon finds a stone in the spine, but it's actually a dragons egg. So Eragon becomes a dragon rider,(someone who rases a dragon). At this time the Ra'zark have killed his dad. So Eragon, Suphiera,(the dragon) and Brom are on a quest to find the Ra'zark, and kill them. This book requires a lot of imagination. But Eragon is the best book I have ever read. So buy it NO(...)! Or else!
Rating: Summary: Eragon Book Review Review: This book is great! I read a ton, and of all of the books I read, this is one of my favorites! It has an amazing plot, and if you like fantasy books, you'll love it too, and you probably will even if you don't like fantasy books. I would chose Eragon over Harry Potter any day.
Rating: Summary: Awesome And Amazing Review: I am one of the want-to-be cool kids in my grade (9th) and I had to read a book for a book report and I choose Eragon out of a recommendation but it was awesome I picked it up when i was on spring break and i didnt drop it to do anything for like 6 days i pretty much missed the better part of my vacation but it was all worth it this book is awesome 5 stars!!! The only thing is the 2005 release of Eldest but you can bet ill be getting it Christopher Paolini Is an amazing author!!! And only 15 i wish i had that talent well the books awesome, the authors awesome Adios!!!
Rating: Summary: wonderful book for the juvenile soul! Review: This definitely was my favorite book ever. It has the feel of The Lord of the Rings, and the touch of Harry Potter, making you beg for the sequel. It has the well rounded ability to change settings from a mountain, to a plain, to a desert, to a mountain. Deadly brutes called urgals, possesed men known as shades, a disorientated race called the raz'ac, and an an insane king named Galbatorix,constantly stock Eragon, and constantly refresh your supplies of suspense, and adreniline. And then finally the climax explodes like a vaccant rocket that was just launched through the air, and falls back to the earth. I sincerely hope you buy this prtoduct from Amazon.com because it is worth every penny.
Rating: Summary: Average Fantasy book. Review: Ok, I picked it up because of the outrageous prices it commands in the collectors editions. Also my kid liked it. Well as an adult reading it, I was disappointed. I haven't been able to force myself to finish it. If there is a story here, I haven't found it and I'm 1/3 the way through it. For me the things that bug me about the book, besides the flat characters, is the mistakes in basic things like making a saddle, or riding horses, or fighting with a sword or hunting with a bow. It's clear that the author has never looked close at or done any of them. That someone shows up early with a cool sword and he lets the Dragon carry it. I mean come-on! What teenage boy would let this out of his sight? Yes he knows that he's no good with it yet but to not want to carry it???? And his mentor keeps saying stupid stuff like "I'll tell you when you need to know". Lame. Tell me now, I just asked. If I thought I wasn't ready to hear I wouldn't have asked. So as they plod through the wilderness looking for evil do-ers who are way more prepared than they are, to bushwhack them as their only chance, I don't really care anymore. Oh Yeah, people who live off the land don't notice a huge dragon suddenly living in the forest next to them... Arrggg! Well the author is young. Maybe Vol 2 or 3 will be better. (As a reference I've enjoyed the Harry Potter series, all but book 5.)
Rating: Summary: SO VERY GOOD Review: Hey, I just finished the book as in the last fifteen minutes. I won't give away anything don't worry. I just wanted to get on and see when the second one that he is writing is supposed to come out. But I was reading other reviews and people kept saying how it was like Lord of the Rings and Eragon sounded like Aragorn and stuff. One I've read Lord of the Rings twice and I didn't notice drastic similarities. Maybe I was to engrossed in the story but you should be too. Also Eragon and Aragorn while sound alike didn't strike me as having anything to do with each other. I thought it was cool and that was one of the first things that struck was the fact that the book was about a boy and dragons and the main character's name was spelled like dragons only instead of a 'd' he used the next letter in the alphabet. There was also two other books mentioned that I've never read so can't argue about. But I mean what you've read will end up leaking into you're writing a little bit. It's only to be expected. I really liked it and thought that it was very original. I think it's cool that someone so young can get a book published. I'm thirteen and want to be an author and I am trying to write a book (I doubt it will go anywhere but you never know) so I think it's really cool that he can get this published. So go read it. It's Eragon, don't forget because then you won't be able to find and READ IT! It was SO SO SO good. Now I'm going to go back to trying to find when the next one comes out. Toodles.
Rating: Summary: The Best one yet Review: this is an amazing book for 9- 15 year olds to read im 12 and i think christfor paloni could emerge as a major new talent
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