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Summary: AMAZING
Review: This is the best book I have ever read in my life. It has war,sadnes,anger ,hatred,and reveng. It is about a boy ,and when his uncle is mirderd by monsters. 15 year old Eragon wonts reveng.So he is out to kill the monsters ,but he gets mickst up with a fight aginst the evil King Galbitoracks . If you wonht to find out more you have to read this book.
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Summary: Jenny
Review: I thought this book was great. Eveyone is saying that Christopher Paolini copied and everything but that doesn't really get in the way of it being a great book. The plot and characters are a bit noticably familiar, but I still thought that this book was fantastic. I didn't like the way Eragon's character was always changing and the fact that he didn't think about riding his dragon across the desert. I believe that I even saw an editing mistake. That isn't really surprising since his family edited it.I read this book because the cover seemed fairly interesting and I love fantasy-fiction. This book turned out better than I expected but you can't change the fact that it's a LOT like LotR and I've also heard Star Wars.
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Summary: Fantastic book
Review: Eragon is the book I say is Fantastic. Its by a kid that was therteen years old.His name is Cristopher Paolinis. The book is about a boy Fifteen years old. who was poor and lived with his uncle and cusin. One day he whent to the Spine to hunt. In the Spine he finds a blue stone. he brings it home and falls asleep. The rock starts shaking and a dragon cracks out of the rock.further in the book he becomes a rider and fights the king so every body can be free. If he survives and the war you have to read this owsome book
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Summary: Captivating!
Review: This book was difficult to put down! It's a wonderfully written fantasy with a touch of mystery that adopts the familiar ideas of dragons, dwarves, elves and a young boy, and combines them in such a believable manner that you can almost feel as if you are part of the story as Eragon and Saphira endure both grief and victory. You laugh with them, you cry with them, and at the same time trying to unveil the true identities of several key characters leaves you hungering for the next chapter, and of course, for the next book! I can't wait!!
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Summary: Wow
Review: I really never knew that a 19 year old could be so creative, i am only 15 and that was the most amazing book i have ver read, it even beats lord of the rings!!!
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Summary: A First Draft--Needs Revision
Review: The novel is ok, but I can't praise it for its originality or characters. The plot is often convenient, predictable, and obviously taken from other books. The ending does not satisfy the reader, and the lack of consistent character development becomes annoying as characters suddenly grow and then revert to earlier behaviors. I have to agree with everyone criticizing the book's writing style. I know the author is just beginning, but he needs several writing courses. His sentences lack variety and the book needs much more attention to editing. As a family published novel, the book is impressive; however, as a work in mainstream publication, the work suffers from a weak tone, bad grammar, and a standard plot.
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Summary: Fanfiction--Not Quality Fiction
Review: The plot is almost entirely ripped off from Star Wars, with names from Tolkien and a touch of Anne McCaffrey. The descriptive writing comes straight from the "Dark and Stormy Night" school of prose--I mean "the sun rose in a glorious conflagration of pink and yellow"? Ouch! Paolini has potential, but if he had been twice his age, this would never have been published--except by his own family's press. It is akin to fanfiction--excellent for fanfiction, but not up to the standards of children's/YA fantasy. It lacks originality--and please don't tell me how all fiction is derivative. Of course it is--that's why a new book has to have something special for it to be worth reading. And this one just isn't special. What really bugs me is how many librarians and book reviewers have missed all of this, and can only wax poetic about how the author was only 15 when he wrote this--SO WHAT? This is just not good enough to be getting on "best of lists" and garnering 5 stars from well read adults who are supposed to read CRITICALLY. Our kids deserve the best--and that includes reviewers who can recognize the best in children's literature and not fall for the sort of hype this book has generated
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Summary: Twenty seconds longer
Review: I tried reading this book. I love good fantasy. I love good anything. But about 50 pages in, I just couldn't take it anymore. There's a reason Eragon's so long, and it has nothing to do with the story. This poor boy (Paolini) is addicted to modifiers, the best evidence we have of a lazy writer. Instead of thinking 20 seconds longer and finding the perfect verb or noun, he took the lazy way out and just hung lots of adverbs and adjectives on his words. Bleah. He could have done better, but now, with his success, why should he? You all have given him too much encouragement, so because he figures sloppy writing is good enough, you'll never get the writing you deserve from him. What a pity.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I loved this book and would highly recommend it. Not only was it entertaining, but it was also well written. I was amazed by the author's talent, and I am eagerly awaiting the second book. There were definite similarities to other sci-fi/fantasy books that I have read. Although the story was original, I definitely picked up on the influence of Tolkein and Ursula K. Le Guin. However, I've found that books that are important to me influence the way I think and the way I write. One learns to write partly through reading both good and bad books, and it seems to me that Paolini learned well from the master storytellers that have clearly influenced his work. Hopefully he'll be entertaining us for years to come.
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Summary: Just plain bad
Review: Wow. I like pulp fantasy as much as the next die-hard fantasy lover (think Goodkind, Brooks, etc.). This book doesn't even stand up to those admittedly mediocre books. It's just bad. I can't tell you how horribly dissapointed I was with this book. It was just.....bad. I was really hoping this would be the amazing read all those zealots with a flame burning in their eye said it was. Turns out they were like any other fanatics....blinded by the lies they had fallen sway to. Hint to parnets: don't censor your kids--if they find this book and like it, that's a good thing (anything that gets kids reading is a good thing in my book). If they haven't run across it yet, try to get them interested in a higher quality author's fantasy books for young people--think Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Alexander's Prydian books, etc. We can at least show our kids the road around the deceptively alluring swamps of non-talent that this book represents, even if we can't force them to avoid them completely.
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