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Summary: The Best book since Harry Potter
Review: How do you describe how awesome this book is in 1000 words? Well You start with "this book has a quality no others have. The vivid pictures are amazing if you have a great imagination and use pictues from video games, movies, or other sources." Also "This book has a genius of an author and great entertaining characters." I am a seventh grader and loved this book and can never stop reading even after the first time.
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Summary: read something creative instead
Review: I've read hundreds of fantasy books and this is definitely the worst I've had the misfortune to read. Instead of reading this poorly conceived knock-off, I recommend that young readers check out Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong trilogy, Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series, or Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series.I found Eragon to be a simplistic reworking of stories/themes that have been written better by other authors. It is sad that the publisher's of the 21st century are playing it "safe", like most modern entertainment, and giving us nothing new. Shame on Knopf. I'd rather save my money and re-read something I love, like Anne McCaffrey's Dragon books. If this is what is going to be published, I will wish this Era - gone. I returned it for my money back.
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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: All I can say is that this is by far the best book I have ever read. If you like fantasy, this is one of the best books you're gonna find. I have friends who've read it and loved it, and even though I'm only nine, this book is suitable to anyone who loves to read and loves fantasy. I would also like to note that if I could rate this book one hundred stars, I would. Finally I would like to say that if you like fantasy and are a pretty good reader, you will almost certainly like this book (there's always that one-percent chance that you won't like it).
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Summary: Awfully familiar....
Review: In this book, Luke Skywalker, um, I mean, Eragon, raised by farmer on the edge of the [Galactic] Empire but of uncertain (but surely noble) parentage, is trained to be a Jedi Knight, um, I mean, a Dragon Rider, by a former Knight/Rider, Obi Wan Kenobi, um, I mean, Brom. Eragon wants to be a Knight/Rider because he can then fight the powers of evil, including the Emperor and his half-human minion Darth, um, I mean, Darza. Eragon must go off on a quest to avenge the murder of his parent, which leads him to dwarves who are good at tunneling, and elves who have retreated from the world of men and who live beyond the sea but are very good at making swords. He also meets up with orcs, um, I mean, urgals, and super-orcs called uruk-hai, um, I mean, kells, all of whom need to be directly controlled by an evil mind or else they fight aimlessly. During this quest, Eragon also learns how to be a wizard and to do magic by using Tolkienian Middle English or quasi-Celtic phrases instead of Harry Potter's Latin, and by aiming his wand, um, I mean, the special mark on his palm, in the right direction. There's basically nothing else to this, but boys 9-12 will love it.
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Summary: number 1 on my list
Review: Christopher Paolini had me reading this book non-stop. i finished it in 4 days, i recommended this book to 5 friends and all 5 loved it. his writing is awesome and the plot is amazing. i don't have time to describe the book to you, only to recommend it and hope that you take my advice and read it. anyone from 10 - 16 years old will appreciate this book. thanks for reading my review, hope you love the book as much as i do
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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: I am not a professional writer or critic by any means, but I was definately leary about continuing with a book that begins with such blatant references to Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' I nearly threw it aside disgusted (bow-legged creatures with black blood; a forest that people enter but never leave; the protagonist's name so close to Aragorn, etc.). But I continued on and was rewarded in the last 1/2 to 1/3 of the book. Finally, Paolini found his voice and was no longer the 15-yr-old writer, but a novelist. I found myself sneaking glimps during work and reading during my few breaks in the day, desperate to find out who Murtaugh was, what is Arya's connection to Eragon and many other questions. In retrospect the connections to Tolkien can be explained by anyone familiar with fantasy or early medieval works: black blood is evil, forests are unnerving and made more mysterious by the stories that surround them, etc. For the seasoned fantasy reader, this book probably isn't the best follow-up to 'LOTR', but I would whole-heartedly recommend this to younger readers, eager for a fantastical escape. In fact, I immediately placed this book on my 15-yr-old brother's bed the moment I finished, hoping he'll begin the adventure and eagerly await the sequel with me.
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Summary: Eragon
Review: When Eragon finds a strange egg his whole life turns upsidedown. His cousin moves away for work, his uncle is killed, and he becomes a dragon rider. After his uncle dies, he goes throughout the Empire in search of his uncle's killers, the Razac. During his " trip", he even becomes wrapped up in saving an Elf's life. Eragon is a book you won't want to set down if you enjoy fantasy books that are exciting, fun, and sometimes very sad. I enjoyed this book because every little thing was so carefully described that I could see everything. Eragon has to be the best book I have ever read!
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Summary: Loved it
Review: Exellent! Great book. Christopher Paolini is a genius. It has dragons and dwarfs and elves and swordfights. I am an 11 yr old boy and I recommend it for anyone who liked Harry Potter, Tolkien and similar books.
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Summary: Definatley a 11 out of 10!
Review: This is a great book. It starts out boring, but keep reading because it gets great.It has two main thgings that every good story needs ( in my opinion), action and adventure. Some people say Christopher Paolini just pulled ideas from other books. That may be so, but Eragon is still a great book. It may be alot like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it still had enough of new ideas to make a great book! A word of caution: Get used to sitting at home, reading until 11:30 PM because once you start Eragon, you will never want to put it down!
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Summary: Great book, for the beginning
Review: Honestly, the size of the book depressed me. I'm one that hates to cary around huge books to read, so I let it sit in my room for at least a month before I even picked it up, based on size alone. And then I read the first chapter, had no idea what an "urgal" was, and set it down for another week and a half.
Being a huge fantasy-lord of the rings-harry potter fan, I figured a book about a boy and his dragon would be something along the lines of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books. How wrong I was.
After starting the first chapter and seeing Eragon find this blue jewel and the blue jewel being an egg, I was entranced. Finishing the book in three days, it was clear to see that with all the internal conflicts, I wasn't going to get my fix of Arya the elf in 528 pages.
The one set back to the book was how Paolini would put the ancient language spells, and no translation next to it. I hated to keep reading not knowing what it meant, but I hated having to go back to the glossary time after time.
Christopher Paolini's first book, Eragon, is a wonderful book that entrances the reader, and makes you wish that he had the second two books written already. ;-]
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