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Eragon (Inheritance Cycle)

Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

127 reviews
Sales Rank: 1468

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.4

ISBN: 0552552097
EAN: 9780552552097
ASIN: 0552552097

Publication Date: January 6, 2005
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5 out of 5 stars

Depends on what eyes you read this book through... July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

As you can see from the star dispersal that this, depending on what eyes you read it with can be a gripping read or if you hold preconceptions in your head as you read it can seem cliched.
But not I, I read it with the knowledge that any good fantasy book would no doubt have elves, good and evil, dragons etc. and were essential to any good fantasy read you'd want to emmerse yourself in. And Eragon delivers that in strides as light reading with some wonderful warm characterisation and development of relationships between who are essentially the two main characters: Eragon and Saphira and for once we see a dragon as a fleshed out character and not a mere plot device. This book does seem to focus mainly on Eragon and Saphira's bond for relationship development and is always good for a laugh considering how different they are. The other characters always seem there for support and with exception of a few (Brom for instance) arn't gone into in some detail.
Bottom line? A wonderfully good adventurous read that you'll love to pick up and read for hundreds of pages at a time and feel very reluctant to put down without being forced to spend hundreds of pages being introduced to new concepts and races just so you can remotely get your head around the plot.
This is the beginnning of a brilliant fantasy series that you will want to read the contiunuation of without a doubt

4 out of 5 stars

An excellent read... why disect it? June 21, 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Eragon' and 'Eldest' and I am sure that I will enjoy 'Brisingr' when it is released; in my mind that's all that matters. While I am happy to acknowledge the similarites that it has with many other fantastic novels, I do not believe that these similarities detract from the books.
Many people who have reviewed this seem obsessed with disecting the book, focusing on which parts are similar to other books and so on, but surely if a book is entertaining to read, then it has fufilled it's purpose. Books are not written to be analysed, they are written to be enjoyed.
To conclude, if you want to read a book simply to bask in it's literary genius and ingenuity, then walk away, but if you read for pleasure, then buy it and enjoy a fantastic read.

P.S. The film is terrible...please don't bother with it.

5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely fantastic!!! June 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

Boy, how I loved this book, and the next one... I could hardly put them down, and only did so because I had to go to work, so I didn't get much sleep for a little week... but the books are amazing, as simply as that!!

1 out of 5 stars

Use a dictionary May 31, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I read this to my children, who found the story exciting, BUT... they frequently had to wait until I stopped laughing! Yes, this book manages to be funny! Paolini likes to use nice sounding phrases, but without any regard for their meaning. I love absurdities. The blurb says it all, when we are told that at 16, he has an 'abiding' love of fantasy! But it is a bit long for the same joke - the comic misuse of words shouldn't extend over so many pages. The plot - a character goes from situation to situation, like in a computer game, on and on and on. We are told that he develops, which is useful, as we don't experience it.

1 out of 5 stars

I can't believe I used to be a fan of this. May 17, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful

I first read this when I was about 9, and it was great to me at the time. I'd finished the Harry Potter series up to that point, so I hungered for more fantasy. The dragon on the cover drew me in and spat me out, covered in the saliva of unoriginality.

After I read it, I started to write, and went through the same process that Paolini did when writing Eragon - I stole the plot, threw it into somebody else's world, changed the characters' names and then wrote them into being more shallow and cliched, and overall spun a horrible, messy web of purple prose from this.

To sum up the previous paragraph, as other people pointed out, Eragon is Lucas' plot in Tolkien's world, only bastardised.

I decided to re-read it recently and I have to say, what I used to think was a brilliant, vibrant, gripping tale managed to bore and irritate me within minutes, and I kept going, only out of search for something I might have enjoyed.

Don't buy this. As an adult, you won't enjoy it, and don't buy it for your child, since it'll mess up their grades in English.