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EAN: 9780440240730 ISBN: 0440240735 Label: Laurel Leaf Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: June 12, 2007 Publisher: Laurel Leaf Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: June 12, 2007 Sales Rank: 5210 Studio: Laurel Leaf Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 A USA Today Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Book Sense Bestseller From the Hardcover edition. Amazon.com Review: Here's a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began Eragon when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords. Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape. In spite of the engrossing action, this is not a book for the casual fantasy reader. There are 65 names of people, horses, and dragons to be remembered and lots of pseudo-Celtic places, magic words, and phrases in the Ancient Language as well as the speech of the dwarfs and the Urgalls. But the maps and glossaries help, and by the end, readers will be utterly dedicated and eager for the next book, Eldest. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell Average Rating:
 Rating:  - exciting storyI just finished the book and thought it was great. I've read the other reviews and am surprised that there are so many negative ones. I am not a "fantasy" genre reader in general so I really can't say if this book is a "copy" of others like people claim. Just reading the book as is, with nothing to compare it to, I really liked it. I thought the writing was way up there in skill and clarity. Compared to many, many other authors writing that I've read CP's writing totally trumps them. Some examples ... Read More Rating:  - Good, not great.I am writing this as I wait with little anticipation for the final book of the inheritance. I agree with some of the other reviews that this book is just too similar to many of the other dragon/middle earth type fantasies. On the other hand, if you like that kind of thing, that isn't much of a deterrent. My biggest issue has been that while the first book was good enough and easy to plow through, the second one was a little drier and the third was an endless dragging on of every mundane ... Read More Rating: - THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This book is really great. I liked this book because when you start reading it you get sucked into it. Brom and Eragon travel through the treacherous lands of King Galbatorix trying to get to Fathen Dur, the home of the dwarfs. This book is full of suspense and has a bunch of exciting and frightening parts. Eragon has such bad luck it feels as if it's happening to you. This book is probably the best book I have ever read. Rating:  - UnoriginalThe lack of originality dominates so much that it's hard to review without dwelling on that point, but since other reviewers have pretty well covered it, I'll just say I concur and try to move on. Beyond that, I was just looking for an accessible, decent fantasy book, and read this because a friend recommended the series. I must say I'm disappointed. Even ignoring the rip-off factor, it was still disappointing. I don't think the author played to the stregnth of the story very well. This is ... Read More Rating: - Top fantasyOne of the greatest book I ever read. One of the greatest stories. I am waiting for the fourth part when the story is finished. Amazing written. |
