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Summary: Booo...
Review: This book and its author bothers me for the following reasons:1) Just because he wrote this when he 15 does NOT automatically make this a great book
2) For the record, it ISN'T a great book.
3) The story is derivative
4) Of Tolkien
5) And God knows how many other fantasy novels
6) It's sappy
7) It's unengaging
8) You can tell it was written by a 15-year-old
9) The Editing is horrible! (Who edited this? Oh right...HIS PARENTS)
10) Frankly, I think it's a waste of paper On the other hand, the title page art is lovely.
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Summary: Wow....
Review: This book was just amazing. I found that I couldn't even bring myself to put the book down. It sucks you in and keeps you there, a great book for all people. Worth every last minute...
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Summary: Good, But Not THE Best
Review: (...)Eragon is not the second "LotR". If you expect it to be and you read it, you'll be severly disappointed. In fact, when you read something, or watch a movie, don't expect anything of it, or else you'll be disappointed, because nothing is good enough when you expect something really good. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Eragon is not a great book, but it's at least good. Sure, it has traces of LotR, the Earthsea books, and amazingly, Star Wars, but it is still a good book. Let's get this straight: ELVES existed in books before LotR was written, and so did DWARVES and DRAGONS. Also, I do not think Paolini meant for the name Eragon to be like Aragorn. He just switched the "D" in dragon, with an "E". I'm sure this is the case. Second, so what if it's a lot like Lord Of The Rings? I've read the LotR trilogy 2 times, yet I still liked this book. So, you LotR fanatics who never think anthing is good enough, try writing a book as good as, or better then LotR, or even Eragon. Half of you don't even know proper english. So, stop complaining and enjoy the book. Anyway, if you have the money, and the time to read this book, go ahead and read it. It's good, light, reading, that you should be able to enjoy, if you're not an idiot who thinks slightly unoriginal books, or even fanfiction are bad. Face it, people are influenced with what they see and read. At this day and age, people might copy people even without knowing it, since they might have been inluenced when they were young, and they forgot where they got it from. Try writing a fantasy story with dragons, and other mythical creatures without copying some writer. It's not possible.
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Summary: Tolkien, this is not
Review: With Eragon, Christopher Paolini has attempted to write the next great epic fantasy of our time. He's taken all the usual ingredients; dragons, elves, dwarves, evil spirits who can't bear daylight, a fantastical new world, a wise, mysterious guide, and a young boy with a mysterious heritage, and mashed them together into a 500+ page novel. But in the end, Eragon is like so many other Tolkien-esque epic fantasies: all epic, and no magic. The story dragged on, and even when I skimmed whole chapters I couldn't make myself sit all the way through it. I've tried to read it twice now, and I've given up both times. Paolini's prose and plot aren't rotten; they just failed to grab my attention. If you haven't read a lot of epic fantasy, you'll probably like this. But for those of us who have ... this is pretty much a "been there, done that," kind of story. There is nothing new under the sun, but most authors can put a twist on the same old devices and make them seem new. Paolini didn't.
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Summary: What a COPYCAT!!!!
Review: Ok when I came here, I was expecting a bad review and a very low rating since this book was the worst ever!! The character and the plot reminded me so much of the famous trilogy Lord of the Rings! It's resemblance was too much for me to bare, I wanted to scream. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! (Ok that help)
If it wasn't for the it being my book report for english class, I would of thrown it into a fire and sprinkle paper for fuel. Yet I must admit, my book report did get a 100% even though I was making my class crack up with my opinions and the honesty of my hate towards it. Even though all my classmates wrote a "I love this book so much blah blah" lies to sway the teacher into giving them at least a passing grade, I lashed out with my fiery of ever having such a sad book being published.
For one, the character's resemblance to lord of the Rings; (excuse my spelling, I've never been good with names) Brom-Grandalf, an old wizard that is known in the town of Eragon/Frodo and tells storie, then he goes out of his way and help the little hero. The Urgals-Urikis, smelly, stupid, and far out too gross to look at. Snowfire-shadowfax, a pure white, speedy, and loyal horses to the wizard. Murtagh-Aragon (wow a double whammy) a mysterious man that shows up with rich weapons...turns out to be of noble blood. There's lots more yet I can't remember for I've lost my report somewhere in my junk mass called my "bedroom" (I've lost the bed to the room to the mass)*tear*.
Now the plot, it was OLD!! Boy has somebody he loves indangered or dead and wants to advenge him/her, goes on a quest, gets some side-kicks, goes against the "most evil thing on earth" and wins, blah blah...you should now know the ending!! Yep, its all foredained!! So where does the women play a part in this? NONE...well the elf but yeah a pair of chapters to herself, YAY let's pop out the wine and ale to celebrate! What's wrong with having at least a few more women that helps out Eragon through his all so difficult quest? T_T
As you can see I'm not the old-fashion girl that likes the same old plots and stories...they bore the heck out of me for suspense and thills send me reading for more not the dull plot I got out of an exciting looking cover. Guess I've spent some dollars on a useless book when I could of brought some more Mangas...>_<
The suspense was ZERO for I usually get done with books in about a week at the most but this one took me the three months to finish!! I was always reluctant on picking it up to read while I could read others on my book shelf like Sunshine, Dragon Pit Trilogy, Dragonology, Demon Diary, X/1999, A deadly Game of Magic, and etc. at hand. For this author is nothing like and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Teen Award Author, he has a good idea but his way of telling it makes me want to THROW-UP!!
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Summary: Loved It!!
Review: I loved this book. I never wanted to put it down. Can't wait for Book 2!
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Summary: Eragon the best book ever
Review: This book starts out with a young boy named Eragon. The cover lies because there's a dragon on the front cover, Eragon is a young boy. Eragon goes through many adventures in this book. In the beginning of the book he is poor and so he is hunting, he doesn't get any food. But he finds a beautiful rock that's sapphire. But when the traveling merchants come he shows one merchant the rock and the merchant says it's hollow but that's odd because rocks aren't hollow .The rock turns out to be very unique, you'll find out why. To find out more read the book. During the story Eragon goes from being normal to being heroic. The book is almost all adventure. The mood of the story is an eerie mood. A nineteen-year-old boy called Christopher Palino wrote the book. This is his first book. The style of his writing is mature and he describes things well through out the whole book. This book's setting is in an imaginary world. This book is the first in a trilogy and I really want to get the next book when it comes out. People that like books with adventure would love this book or people who love dragons, action, or magic. The only thing that's annoying about Eragon the book is that it leaves you hanging at a good part at the end of the book. This book was a selection of The Book-of-the-Month- Club. I recommend this book to nine to fifteen year old kids.
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Summary: Very engrossing, pretty good read overall
Review: I heard so many good things about this book before I finally decided to pick it up and read. From the first page, I got hooked. The book was extremely engrossing to read, though there were a few flaws here and there. Eragon was exciting all throughout, and the plot was excellent and it will keep the reader on the edge of their seats wondering what will happen next. This is filled with interesting characters and exciting situations. Though the book has some familarities with Lord of the Ring and the other fantasy books, I must say it still is good. The author has great potential to be the next Tokien, so be sure to pick up Eragon and read it! Just let the story captivate you, don't concentrate on certain details and I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
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Summary: BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD!!!
Review: When i was looking for books, this books name and cover caught my eye. I picked it up and felt that this book would be special. I read the synopsis and HAD to get this book! I couldn't put it down! i read in English, History, Algebra, anywhere i could! This book is AMAZING! I absolutly LOVE the name Eragon!
I've read many reviews, many are negative, but if you love fantasy and adventure, READ THIS BOOK!
As your reading this book, images just pop to your mind as you read the amazing description and understand everything. Wonderful charaters in here, and humorous ones also.
((Eragon is a much beter name the Aragorn, Eragon is MUCh better the LOTR))
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Summary: One of the best new yarns in years
Review: This book immediately jumps into the pantheon of outstanding epic fantasy stories. I read this book with my family - wife, daughter 15 and son 12 and we all loved it. In the best heroic tradition, he has created an entire world with carefully crafted history and back stories, characters who remain true to their part throughout and an adventure that grabs hold of you. Can't wait for book 2 in this trilogy.
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