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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I really enjoyed reading this work. I admire Chris Paolini for having the determination to tackle such a monumental task. Get over the name similarities, and the Tolkien comparisons - it just doesn't matter. Chris has created a terrific atory, and I am looking forward to Eldest.
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Summary: A 7th Grader's Review on "Eragon"
Review: Eragon is a poor farm boy, one year away from his manhood celebration. One day, while hunting in the forest, there is an enormous explosion! In the very center of the blast radius, Eragon finds a polished blue stone. His first thought is that maybe he could sell it to buy food for his family. The butcher, Sloan, refuses to buy the stone when he learns of how Eragon found it. With the stone apparently useless, the blacksmith, Horst, buys food and gives it to Eragon. In exchange, Eragon must work as his assistant through the summer. Buoyed by his good luck, Eragon heads home with mixed emotions.
One night, weeks after he found it, Eragon awakes to find the stone shaking and squeaking. Eventually, cracks began to appear down its sides. Then it split open entirely and out of the mess skittered a dragon! It was the end of Eragon's simple life as a poor farm boy. With only an ancient sword and an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and his dragon fledgling must take up the role of the legendary Dragon Riders. He sets out to avenge his uncle's death and fight the evil king Galbatorix. But, whom should he hide with when his task is done? He cannot fight Galbatorix alone, and siding with him would be insane. Should he join the mysterious Varden and fight the rest of his life? Or perhaps the peaceful country of Surda? Both paths do not look promising, but where else can Eragon go?
I would recommend "Eragon" to people 10 and older. It has a few language issues and can be gory at times. However, the style of writing is very easy to understand and the book is full of excitement to keep even young readers on their toes. The characters and geography are incredibly realistic and well developed. I also enjoy the fact the Eragon isn't more powerful than everything he meets like some of the characters in "Lord of the Rings." He isn't the perfect hero either which makes the book more realistic. Although the book is full of magic and adventure, you can almost believe that what's going on is really happening. AS the story goes along, Eragon gets stronger, makes mistakes and learns the truth about the legendary Dragon Riders. The story is full of incredible twists and turns, some of which you could expect, and others that would blow your mind. Eragon is faced with many hard choices, only one of which is safe. I give "Eragon" by: Christopher Paolini 5 Stars
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Summary: copy cat
Review: I think the book is to much like the lord of the rings with descriptions of people and places and i dont think its orginal at all.Its the same by having the character vunrable at the begin not nowing there true strength eg.Frodo,eragon.And also Brom and Gandalf are the same sort of character.The Elves and the dwarfs have the same description as in lord of the ring and the languages and names are the same.Also the Razac are like the ringwraiths hissing and black hooded.He also talks about the Evles coming other on ships and living in a forest that no one apart from the evles have travelled in without not coming out,that is also the same.I could sit here all day and compare both stories so iam just going to say all in all a very poor reflection of a really good story by J.R Tolkein.
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Summary: Great
Review: This is one of the best books i've ever read. I am a huge fan and I can't wait until the second book comes out. I also heard they are making a movie out of the book in 2005, I'll be their on the first day! I love this book so much that i've read it five times. Although it mixes A lot of the great fantasy books together, it just makes Eragon better. For all those book critics that dont like this book, go get a life!
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Summary: Why can't we choose NO stars for this book?
Review: C'mon people!! this book is terrible!! It's poorly written, a rip-off of about a hundred BAD novels, and about as "suprising" as a PB&J sandwich. All you 5 star raters should be ashamed of yourselves! Grow up people...this isn't a matter of taste, its a matter of fact...this book is no good.
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Summary: Incredible Writing
Review: About a weak ago, when I bought this book, I was expecting an exceptonal book, because I had heard good things about it. I had no idea that I was purchasing the best book i had ever read, second only to Lord of the Rings. It is packed with characters that you get to know so well, that you feel like you could recognize them in the grocery store. The plot is simple enough for a reader to understand easily, but so colorful that it feels like its happening to you. It resembles The Lord of the Rings in a few ways. First and formost is the names of some of the charactors, and this angers some people. The thing that they fail to see is that the only the names are similar, but the characters are very vivid and original. (...) I can tell you where he gets his insperatian for landscape in the book. His details of the suroundings in the book are so intricately woven and detailed that I feal like he is describeing my home. This connection puts me so inside the story that it feels like i am part of the book. Eragon is a great start to a trilogy destined to be a classic. Tons of fantasy fans will be lined up at book stores for the second part of the trilogy, and I will be one of them.
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Summary: This book was soooooooooo cool!!!
Review: Eragon was an amazing book. This is one of the few books that brings justice to the bad name dragons have been given. I personally love dragons and think that they truly are kind hearted creatures. The author gave Saphira (the main dragon) just the kind of sparky attitude a dragon should have. I really applaud Christopher on this wonderful book. He is an inspiration to young writers like myself.
KEEP WRITING!!!
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Summary: Am I supposed to be impressed?
Review: Maybe it's me, but I think the fact that I'm repeatedly told that this novel was written by a fifteen year old is some kind strategic sales tactic by the publishers. I mean, knowing that the author is a minor already has us inclined to think that this novel will be nothing short of spectacular. If he's only fifteen, than this had better be a darn good book for it to be published! Of course, like most assumptions, that turned out to be wrong. What's wrong with this book? Aside from technical aspects, like awkward sentencing and poor editing, the real problem with this novel is that its author seems too focused on copying other, better writers. Paolini seems very keen on pulling off a Tolkien-esque story with a Tolkien-esque narrative, which makes this entire book (pretty though the packaging may be) seem awfully amateurish. I strongly discourage the continuation of this series, because it's extremely derivative. I suggest The Lord of the Rings trilogy (though weaker readers will find it exhaustive) or the Harry Potter books (note: J.K Rowling deserves all the hype she's getting...and you'll notice if you compare book 1 and book 5 how much she's grown as a writer.)
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Summary: Written by a lover of everything fantasy
Review: Eragon, although extremely well written, seems to be several stories thrown into one. The book shares many of its ideas with classics, the most obvious being The Lord of the Rings and the Dragonriders of Pern. Some similarities including a romance between a human male and a female elf (by the name of Arya; could it be any closer to Arwen?), dwarves that mine and live in cities under the mountains, Urgals whose descriptions seem offly close to those of Orcs, and Kulls which are a hybrid species of Urgals that are tall and more ferocious (nothing at all like Tolkiens Uruk-hai).
But, despite all these similarities and my descriminations against the book, I reluctanly have to say that I actually enjoyed the book. I have a weakness for anything and everything fantasy and despite its imperfections Eragon is one of the better fantasy books in todays book market.
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Summary: Why do so many people like this book?
Review: I read this book because it was well reviewed by many people, and I must say I was disapointed. This book lacks everything that is vital to a good fantasy novel: Original plot line, strong characterization, gender balanced cast, and decent dialogue. Paolini uses far too many adverbs, as do many other amateur writers, and he cannot write a good action scene to save his life. The characters were very weak with minimal personality, and none of them were memorable. Also, most of the plot and setting of this book was stolen from a) Tolkien, b) Ursula K. Leguin, or c) Anne McCaffrey. Many of the names of places or people were far to easy to trace back to their sources. Am I the only person who thinks that 'Eragon' sounds suspiciously like Tolkien's character 'Aragorn'? And once that link is established, it's not difficult to see that 'Arya' is an adaptation of 'Arwen'. But what really enraged me about this book was the blatant lack of female characters. In a five hundred page book, only three non-male characters have more than two lines each, and one of them is the dragon. The other two are Arya the elf and Angela the witch. There is nothing wrong with Angela, but Arya is another matter entirely. If she is such a powerful mage and skilled swordswoman, why did she need to be rescued by a fifteen year old by with an enlarged ego? A villan who defeated Arya in about two seconds was later killed by Eragon. I think this is disgusting (...). Maybe I'm just biased because I'm female, but personally, I hate books where the male characters are the best at everything. In conclusion, don't read this book. (...)
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