Eragon (Inhertitance) | 
| Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 768
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0440240735
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ASIN: 0440240735
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy#8212;until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save#8212;or destroy#8212;the Empire.brbr#8220;An authentic work of great talent.#8221;#8212;iThe New York Times Book Review/ibrbr#8220;Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.#8221;#8212;iPeople/i brbr#8220;Unusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.#8221;#8212;iBooklist/i, Starredbrbr#8220;An auspicious beginning to both career and series.#8221;#8212;iPublishers Weekly/ibrbrA New York Times BestsellerbrbrA USA Today BestsellerbrbrA Wall Street Journal BestsellerbrbrA Book Sense BestsellerbrbrbriFrom the Hardcover edition./i
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 Magic Sorcery=Flawed Book November 21, 2008
"Eragon" is the first in the Inheritance Cycle, which should rather be called the "Satanic Cycle." The Devil uses avenues that seem "okay," such as this series of novels, and uses them to get children used to magic and sorcery, so that when they grow up they'll be less averse to actually usuing sorcery. This book is no different from Harry Potter or from the Twilight series, in that they are all tools of Satan. Don't read this book! It won't help you at all, instead, it may hinder you seeing the truth!
 Lacks heart November 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The premise of this story is very alluring. A young ,seemingly, ordinary boy stumbles upon a beautiful stone that turns out to be his destiny. I am a big fan of fantasy and there was a lot of hype surrounding this book. The fact that the writer was a teenager when he penned it does bring a certain amount of admiration. Unfortunatly, as others have been quick to point out, it borrows from other better novels of this genre. Perhaps I would be willing to overlook even that if it had not been for the blandness of the story. The reader isn't intimatly introduced to Eragon. We aren't held witness to his likes and dislikes. There is just zero character develoment. How are we supposed to care about what happens to them if they are one dimensional and bland? br /This is one of the few books I just couldn't finish. I have roughly four chapters left. I knew there was a big problem when I found myself skipping ahead and just wanting to finish. It would be interesting to know if the writing improves in the later books. Sadly, I can say that I won't be finding out.
 A exellent book, what's with all the bad reviews? October 24, 2008
Unlike other people, I saw the movie before I read the book. People talked to me about it, but I thought it was a depressing book series with the last dragon on earth in it.br /br /But after seeing the movie and learning I had been mistaken in this viewpoint, I got the book from the library and am now reading 'Brisingr'.br /br /SPOILERS!!! WARNING!!!br /br /A young boy named Eragon, raised by his Uncle Garrow and Aunt Marian in the land of Alagaesia, where the evil King Galbatorix lords over the land, finds a saphire colored egg and thinks it is some sort of valuable stone. He tries to sell it, but it ends out hatching, and revealing a small dragon inside.br /br /Eragon raises the dragon, and gleans information about them from Brom, the village's storyteller. He gives his female dragon the name 'Saphira', from a dragon name that Brom gives him.br /br /Soon, evil beings called the Ra'zac come to Eragon's village, and murder his uncle Garrow (his cousin Roran being somewhere else, and his aunt having died years before), leaving Eragon with a heavy thirst for revenge.br /br /Brom finds Eragon and Saphira, says he knows about dragons, and insists that he allow him to train Eragon, so he might live though his quest to kill the Ra'zac. Eragon agrees, and him and Brom and Saphira leave, for the Ra'zac are leaving, and the trio don't want to lose them.br /br /After dropping off at a massacered village, having Eragon's fortune told by Angela, and getting information from Jeod, a wealthy merchant and an old friend of Brom's, they try to find out the Ra'zac's hiding place, which leads to them fleeing for their lives from Hellegrid.br /br /While on the run from Ra'zac, they get attacked, and Brom is wounded. A young man named Murtagh rescues Eragon and Saphira, and offers to help them with their quest. They reach a hidden cave, where Brom wakes up and tells Eragon he was a Dragon Rider, and that his dragon, Saphira, was killed by the traitor Morzan. He then dies, leaving Eragon heartbroken.br /br /Shortly after they get captured, and Eragon meets Duraz, a evil Shade that is intent on learning Eragon's true name (learning the true name of a person will allow anyone control over a person). With a little bit of luck, Eragon and Murtagh escape to join Saphira, rescuing a elf woman in the process.br /br /When they reach safty, Eragon heals her, and finds out from her mind the way to the Varden, and that she must have medicine from them is she wants to be healed. They journey there, where and Saphira discover that Murtagh is Morzan's son, (Morzan being the traitor Dragon Rider that allied with Galbatorix, the evil king of Alagaesia, to kill the rest of the Dragon Riders and in doing so killed all the dragons that did not escape Alagaesia), and ally themselves to the Varden.br /br /A battle is waged, and Eragon and Saphira must fight against the Shade Duraz, or die in the process... br /br /SPOILERS END HEREbr /br /All together, a great book.
Stephani October 24, 2008
This book kept me involved in the story from the first chapter to the last page and wanting more! I couldn't wait to get out and read the next book, and the next! Hopefully they won't keep us waiting for book 4 for too long!
Yuck October 10, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reads like a particularly bad DD module got sick on and threw up a junior thesaurus. The ratio of made-up words is high, the name of the king is a mishmash of the lead Decepticon from Transformers and 'dominatrix,' words aren't used properly, and there's a huge amount of redundant language. I realize this is the author's first book, but doesn't his publisher have editors?
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