Eragon (Inheritance) | Christopher Paolini

Eragon (Inheritance) | Christopher Paolini | Epic Adventure, Fun and Familiar

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Eragon (Inheritance)

	Eragon (Inheritance) Christopher Paolini Laurel Leaf, 2007 - 768 pages average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy?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?or destroy?the Empire.

?An authentic work of great talent.??The New York Times Book Review

?Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.??People

?Unusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.??Booklist, Starred

?An auspicious beginning to both career and series.??Publishers Weekly

A New York Times Bestseller

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Very Engaging!

I had so much fun reading this story. It took a little to get going, but once it did I had a hard time putting it down! There seems to be some criticism that it lacks in originality, however, it's sort of a staple of the 'Fantasy' genre to include include the 'normal' elves/dwarves/dragons/etc. You can't help having overlap, yet this completely held my attention and I look forward to reading the rest!

Epic Adventure, Fun and Familiar

I am a long time fantasy/sci-fi fan. Like many others, when I saw Eragon and peeked inside, I felt it was a bit derivative, revisiting situations we've seen before in other classic adventures and epics.

But...that's OK! It is a lot of fun, big adventure, smoothly delivered.

Our hero Eragon is familiar but engaging, the farmboy with great destiny, thrust into adventure under the tutelage of a mentor from the old days, before the Empire. Eragon befriends the wily and mysterious Murtagh on his way, the rough and tumble, out for himself young warrior who makes a connection with our hero. Finally Eragon encounters other freedom fighters and falls in as inspiring hero, facing his toughest challenge at the book's climax.

We are introduced to Saphira, the dragon and companion to Eragon, source of his power and matching his courage, and tied to his destiny.

Heroes, villains, vast landscapes, magic, swords, and wonder. It is familiar but still works well, I enjoyed it and I am now onto the sequel, Eldest, where I expect Paolini's growth as a writer will thicken the story and continue to introduce a few new ideas to the tropes we've experienced before.

The travelogue in the middle of the book slows the pace, but the reward of the discoveries and battles at the end of the book make it all worth while.

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Dragons! =D

Eragon is a novel that I enjoyed. It is a book that isn't the typical wizard and dragon novel; it was good. I liked the glossary and the hours of trying to pronounce everything right. Eragon is a close-to-manhood male who is hunting in the Spine when out of nowhere appears a sapphire blue egg. He tries to sell it for some money, but Sloan, the angry and despicable butcher, will not touch it because of where Eragon found it (his wife died right near Igualda Falls). Eragon soon learns his legacy and goes on an adventure for vengence and learns about himself and his friends. I recommend this completely.

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