Search - Eragon (Inheritance, Bk 1)

I admit that “Eragon� strike a chord with me when I first came upon its summary on the newspaper during my last year of High School. I finally obtained a copy during my freshmen year of college (I actually printed it out of the College Computer Lab, all 200 pages of it). However, I put it aside after several chapters when I was sidetracked with something else. Recently I acquired a copy (the actual book) via Paperbackswap.com and it all came to me that the novel contains numerous of clinches that it should be sue for plagiarism.

Obviously Paolini was imitating Tolkien’s style when he attempted to create languages and elvish, however it obviously couldn’t compare to Tolkien’s Sindarin or Quenya. Upon reading other reviews from the web, I also noticed that Paolini copy large amount of “Starwars� too. The writing style is also dull and dry, with childish solutions to seems impossible tasks (such as rescuing Eragon from the prison of the Capital City).

Understandable, the author wrote most of the story while he was 15 and 16 (as the book proudly stated), however I failed to see how it gain so much fame and there is actually a large database for him. Aside from that, it seems that the fame had gone over the young author’s head, in a interview he said that he “strives to achieve Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf and Tolkien at his best� in his “Eragon� as quoted from Anthony Tardiff, owner of “Hard Sayings�, while he also statement “that one of the pleasures of reading Harry Potter is getting to see Rowling mature as a writer�. Such arrogance. Pity.

The book seem overly boring after I have read many other great novels, I actually skipped last 90 pages or so.

This is a great book to read. If you liked Harry Potter then I believe that you will also like this.

I heard this book was extremely popular so I bought it during one of my vacations. Needless to say, I was not very impressed. The characters failed to draw me in and the story is only so-so. I finished the book not even caring about what would happen in the sequel. Still, it's not absolutely terrible; it's just not all that great either.

A fun, fun read. Never thought I would read it until an elderly volunteer in a thrift store saw me holding the book. That is really good, he said, my grandson recommended it so I read it. I bought Eragon and decided to read it for this challenge. Paolini was 15 when he began writing the book and it was published nationally when he was 17. It's the story about a boy who finds a dragon egg. (He thinks it's just an unusual stone.) Of course, everyone knows that dragons choose who they will bond with don't they? So Eragon becomes linked to Saphira, the dragon, and the boy's life changes entirely. There is an evil king who had destroyed the dragonriders so his life is threatened by his very existence. There is adventure, excitement, and a good story that flows well. Paolini writes well and, yes, you can tell a young person write the book. My favorite clue was when the hero refers to mushrooms as toadstools. Nevertheless, I plan to read the rest of the series. Two members of my family are alreading reading the final book in the series which came out in November. I am certain to get a critique when they finish it.

Heard the book was good so I invested in my own copy and ultimately was unsatisfied. The story was drug out way too long and I had a hard time getting myself to finish it.

This is a story about a boy named Eragon who finds a stone while hunting. He takes the stone back home with him and after awhile the stone "hatches". Turns out it was a dragon's egg. After this we find Eragon's life changed. He goes through many adventures and heartaches, all the while growing into a man. This book swept me away and found it hard to put down. I do agree with some of the reviewers that think the story is a lot like LOTR, Star Wars, etc. but that does not take away from this story at all. I cannot tell you how many stories I've read that I could compare them to different book or a movie I watched. This book is still original enough to stand on it's own!