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Summary: Amazing Start...
Review: This book was really good. The story got better as it went on and the action and description of the book was more in dept. This is a great start to the series and it has readers wanting and waiting for more. I can't wait to read the next book, this boy is going to grow and be a fantastic writer he keeps writing like this. Definitely get this book!!!
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Summary: Cookie Cutter Fantasy Story All The Way
Review: Save your money and buy Harry Potter. This is a cookie cutter fantasy story all the way, offering nothing new to the genre except triteness. Bland characters, bland story--he may know how to write but this is just SO PREDICTABLE AND it borrws so heavily from Tolkien and McCaffery that is really should not have been published. Awful! Zero stars!
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Summary: Great, by todays standards.
Review: I got this book recently and read it in four days. I would like to say it was one of those books you just cant put down, but it really isnt one of those. It is the type of book that is a really great read but if you try and compare it to fantasy masterpeices such as Lord of the Rings, then it doesn't really seem good at all. That is the reason why you SHOULD'T compare it to a masterpeice like that, it is truly unfair to this young author Christopher Paolini to do that. This book is finely edited and well written, but it seems to struggle to be the next great epic. you could say it shouts when a whisper would do just fine, but that is also what makes this book interesting. It is in fact so in depth, not rack your brain, but I mean the complexity of the world, and the characters and their relationships is a true marvel to read. ... Anyway I would give this book a 8.75/10, meaning you should go pick it up!
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: I love this book so much! My mom got it for me for christmas and I can't put it down it's so good. I would definitely recommend this book to fantasy lovers. It has a lot of words and creatures you would'nt understand... that's why I love it! Plus at the end of the book there's a language dictionary for the book. Definetely worth checking out.
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Summary: Been done before.
Review: Don't bother to buy this book. Chances are if you like fantasy literature you've already read this book--under a different title, written by a different author. Save your money.
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Summary: This book deserves negative 5 stars
Review: This book is horrible. I've seen my dog deposit more original pieces of artwork on my lawn. I don't have anything else to say.
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Summary: Awful. TRULY terrible.
Review: Are all you people giving this book a five star review drunk, 11 years old or just stupid? This books is terrible. It's a cookie-cutter rehash of about a trillion other pulp fantasy novels that have been written over the last 20 years, and it's not even a very good one. Half the reviews I see trumpet how this was written by a teenager---I'd argue that's blindingly obvious, and perhaps the publisher should have kept that under wraps. This books is a disgrace. I wouldn't wipe my @$$ with it...
All you kiddies writing in with 5 star reviews should go back to your D+D and Magic games and leave book reviewing to people who can actually drive cars. Pathetic.
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Summary: Don't buy into the HYPE!!!!!!
Review: Okay, this story has been told at least a hundred times and the writing is downright flat and unimaginative. Do not confuse this with what real fantasy should be. Try George R. R. Martin, Tad Williams or Robin Hobbs to name a few of the fantasy masters that can tell a story with originality and readability. This book had nothing to motivate me to finish it or even care how it ends. A good fantasy book should be a treat to read and should draw you into the story wishing it would never end. This book does not. My advice to Mr. Paolini: Get some fresh material and than maybe you'll earn the respect of hardcore fantasy readers.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I purchased this book for my husband and he read it in less than a week. He asked if the sequel's were published and when I told him they weren't he was disappointed. Since he was so moved by the book I decided to peruse it myself. I became absorbed in it for the four days it took me to read the book! If there was ever a story I wanted to jump into, this was it. The characters were emotionally binding and I did not want to put the book down! I didn't want it to end. You cannot compare it to Tolkien's work because it's a unique, exciting story of it's own... I think most people want a sense of purpose and a sense of being connected to someone else and this book delivers that and then some. It is easily one of my favorite books of all time.
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Summary: unreadable
Review: The book was written by a 15 year old. It reads like it was written by a 15 year old. The writing is flat. Multisylabic adjectives take the place of emotional content. The plot seems taken from the last fifteen hack versions of a "trek' fantasy. There seem to be only two characters, a multi-cloned heroic character type and a tri-cloned evil one.It is boring. Since the prose is so badly written, I tried speadreading to see if there is any interesting plot development or storyline to make up for the lack of style. Nope ... I got about half way through and I give up. Paolini wins. He outlasted me. The book goes into the recycle bin to be turned into a cerial box or something of some value to society. The author should really wait for a bit more maturity of life and technique before he assaults the literary world again. His publishers should be ashamed.
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