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Summary: Excellent-LOVED IT!!!
Review: I loved this book, could not put it down. The book just draws you in and connect with the characters (makes me want a dragon of my own...lol). But seriously, it was a pleasure to read, I can not wait until the Eldest comes out. I loved it more than Harry Potter ( it was more "real" for me then Harry Potter). Great job Christopher...keep up the good work.
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Summary: One of the worst books I've ever read
Review: I think the author should have invested more time in creative writing and life experience before writing this book (jacket indicates he was 15 when he started the novel). For me, it came down to this, there was no passion, no emotion, no complexity and character development. It read like a "What I did on my summer vacation" essay. I read it for book club, and only finished it for the ammunition to debate with the other members. Pass on this for more celebrated novels.
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Summary: The Great Book
Review: This book is extremely enjoyable for people that like any type of book because it has a little of everything that a book lover would like. Read it and you will thoroughly enjoy it.
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Summary: Eragon is cubic zirconia
Review: After hearing this book built up as the next coming of Tolkien, I was disappointed and disturbed to actually read it. It was like being invited to a party and told that there would be an amazing diamond on display, only to find cubic zirconia. There's a little bit of sparkle here and there, but the sparkle is all easily recognizable as having been taken from elsewhere--WHEEL OF TIME, DRAGONRIDERS, and, of course, LOTR. Etc. It's kind of disturbing that so many people seem to be fine with that. I presume that many don't know because they haven't read Robert Jordan etc? What's good about this book is imitation, and what's so-so and even boring about it is the way it's written. Anyway, this is cubic zirconia being passed off as diamonds, and it isn't worth the hype it's been getting.
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Summary: It just sucks you right in...
Review: Paolini creates a utterly facinating book that sucks your mind right into the center of it all. Some people might argue that it is just like LOTR or other fantasy books. Well, there is one major difference: this book is made for children readers. The words and dialog aren't so complex, and yet, you still learn knew meanings. Reading this book only gets you more in the mood for other fantasy selections, including LOTR. Thanks to Paolini, we can open the minds of children readers just like Tolkein did to the adualts. This book is an amazing peice of writing, and I urge you(young and old) to pick it up and read!
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Summary: excruciatingly unoriginal
Review: I'd heard about this book--with all those marketing dollars, who hasn't? Started reading it, and the more I read the more I began to feel a sense of unreality that this particular book is getting so much marketing attention. It's nothing but a passably written string of cliches wandering through a maze of better writer's ideas. After reading 200 pages I gave up in disgust. The publishing industry created celebrity status in the young author because of his youth and got away with it. But I do know young people who are very original and profound, even wise in their thinking. This book is excruciatingly UNoriginal, lacking in depth, and the style of writing is immature at best. Bottom line, if you buy it you're only proving the marketers right--that the public can be led by marketing dollars, even turning a silly imitative book like Eragon into a bestseller.
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Summary: Needs works
Review: I picked up this book based on some of the hype generated around Paolini. While I have to agree with some of the other reviews regarding the writing style and the portions of the story which are influenced from some very geat Authors. Even though Paolini has taken plot lines from other Authors I will wait to see where these stories end up. I don't want to trash his first effort completely and look forward to seeing what the next volume has in store. Hopefully, the editing issues can be resolved by then.
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Summary: After finishing this book, I have to say that I love it
Review: It's wonderful, I only bought the book because I liked the cover. I only ment to read it in my spare time, but instead I ended up reading at work when I should have been working, reading at home when I should have been studying for finals, and reading on the bus. I dragged this book with me to class and cracked it open on top of my text books just to finish a chapter.After finishing it at a quater to 8 this morning when I should have been typing a paper, I just wanted more. I want to read more about Eragon and Saphira, I want to read more about the Elves and Dwarves. I can see some connections made between Lord of the Rings and Eragon, but then again I can see connections between Harry Potter and Eragon too. Every fantasy story has a connection or many connections to every other fantasy story. I do recomend reading Eragon before the next book comes out. I cannot wait until the movie. And to those of you shouting "Rip off" at the top of your lungs: It's not a rip off. Deal with it.
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Summary: This book was edited?
Review: I won't echo the other comments about hwo the work is unoriginal or taken from other writers. I didn't care too much about that, mainly because I couldn't get past the horrible use of language. I think this book got caught up in the whole "the writer's 18 years old!" hype. Had this book been written by Robert Jordan and published as a Wheel of Time novel, it would have been flambayed. The use of the English language is absolutely horrible, for all the reasons described in the reviews below, and I blame this not on Paolini's education (or lack of), but on his editors, who failed to clean up this book into something readable. Maybe some of you can get past it, but I couldn't.
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Summary: SPECTRUM Children's Book Club Recommendation
Review: Reading Level: Young Adult At the moment, two strains of a particular genre dominate children's publishing for the 9-and-up crowd. That genre is fantasy and the strains are influenced by that boy wizard from England and a certain Hobbit from Middle Earth. Fans of what is called "high fantasy," as epitomized by the Lord of the Rings trilogy, will form the core audience for Christopher Paolini's new "Inheritance" trilogy. While Eragon does not have the epic scale of LOTR, it compares favorably to LOTR in several ways. In writing a single-focus story with the title character Eragon in every scene, Paolini puts an equal emphasis on character and plot development, often delving into Eragon's thoughts. But like Tolkien, he takes his time to create a vividly real mythical world and a very human protagonist. I recommend this book not only to fantasy fans, but also to those who might be new to the genre, or who think they don't like it. This books is less about elves and dragons and quests, than it is about character. And, if prophecies are to be believed, this may develop into one heckuva romance as well. I recommend this book to any young person interested in becoming a writer, for the author began the book when he was just fifteen and was nineteen when it was published. The writing is technically much better written than many adult authors, which makes the young author's acknowledgements an important part of appreciating his effort. Eragon's one negative is actually another similarity to LOTR: an unsatisfying end to book one, which may, suggest the trilogy may be like LOTR, one long, continuous story rather than three standalone books. - KB Shaw, Publisher
SPECTRUM Children's Book Club
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