What readers think of Eragon, plus links to write your own review.

Eragon is a book like many fantisy books.The writer has the same idea that is in another book and you can not blame someone because they have a simalar idea,just let yourself be caried through the pages and into the world of Alagaesia.Eragon has a new and different adventure on every page.I was so happy when the Eldest came out that I droped the book I was reading and went stright to it.I think it is one of the most exciting and wonderful books I will ever have the chance to read!! Bravo Mr.Paolini!

You people who don,t like the book don,t read it. But my son
made a dill with me. I read eragon, he reads harry potter 4
Well I,ve read eragon 4 times now and I don,t read a lot.
But I do now, I think Paolini is a very gifted kid. He has
inspired my son to write.

I thought this book was interesting at most. It was good enough to sway my attention from the screaming airline engines when I flew over the Atlantic. However, regaurdless of my reasons for reading the book I enjoyed it. It was a quick read, easily read also and one of the main things that anyone that writes a review to this should understand is that it is not for everyone. Every author is not going to play to all readers. Paolini wrote, stole, borrowed, copied, whatever you want to call it and for the readers of his age group it was a huge success. There is no question about finding many similarities from other authors or stories in Paolini's writings, yet when music stars remake old songs no one fusses? I fail to see the difference in this same circumstance. What Paolini has done is taken from the authors, probably his mentors that he used to stay up all night and read their books just as you and I have done and attempted to create something in their honor in the way that he saw it. I'm not defending his work or the people that criticize his work because everyone is entitled their own opinions, however I will ask you to take a few minutes to think about when you were younger and your minds were racing like his.

This book is the best ever who cares if the idea were "lord of the Rings " based. By my acount this is the best book ever and I want more!!

THis is such a copy from the LOTR the evles are a copy from it and he didn't even got enough creativity to invent other races for his world or even research!!! It is all dungeons and dragons rpg games crapy style!

I was so excited when the book first came out. I thought, Great! more fantasy! Plus all those reviews saying that if you liked Lord of the Rings you would like this one?(I'm a total LOTR freak.) Exactly the opposite! If you have read LOTR, even just skimmed through it, you will notice that there isn't a single original word in Eragon. THe land and creatures are way too much like LOTR, and the plot is carbon-copied from Star Wars, minute for minute. Oh yeah, and he never manages to even describe what his main character looks like! I was sorry I even bought the book after about two minutes into it. At first, I couldn't figure out for the life of me why Eragon had been published..but ofcourse! His parents published it. i hope, though, that once he gets out of this carbon-copying from other books stage he should be able to become a pretty good writer.
I think that all of the people that gave Eragon 5 stars haven't been able to read any of the great fantasy writers, such as McCaffrey, Pullman, McKinley, or better yet, just go back to the master who started it all: Tolkien. Eragon is just a really badly copied version of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I mean, yeah, I can see how you would say that there isn't much of the Harry Potter influence in here, but nearly everything else is. Also, I've noticed that a lot of the people who like Eragon spen a lot of time calling names at people, but never actually get around to telling exactly why they like Eragon so much. Here are some example of why this book was copied from other books:

Eragon=Aragorn
Arya=Arwen
Brom=Gandalf
Galbatorix=Saruman
Beor=...Beor(oops, forgot to change the name there!)
Farthen Dur =Minas Tirith
Dwarves=dwarves
ELves=elves
The list could go on and on and on and on.

The only thing that comforts me is that Eragon will disappear in about 10 years, while LOTR has been going strong since the 1950's.

There are many fans of Eragon. I am not one of them. Let me explain why.

Had Christopher Paolini attempted to publish this book the way most authors must seek to publish their material (through hard work, dedication, and talent), I highly doubt it ever would have been published. I have read all kinds of things from essays to opinions in order to gather facts about this book. I have yet to see an argument defend it with merit.

The dialogue is sloppily written, explaining things that should already be self-explanatory. '"Sorry," apologized Brom.' This is an editing nightmare. If one cannot tell that sorry is meant to be an apology, one should have one's head examined.

Long, random bits of detail make me ill. Thus this book should be enough to hospitalize me. Frequently Paolini describes elements he need not go into detail about. Now, being a descriptive, visual author isn't bad, what's bad is dragging a story down with obsessive unnecessary details.

Copying. Everything he wrote has been done, and it HAS been done better. The names he chooses clash in relation to genre, time period, setting, character, etc. He has blatantly stolen material from at least Tolkien, and what he has done to it is horrid. The plot line is unoriginal, and hardly interesting.

I cannot make you believe me, or listen to my opinions, but please, if you're of sound mind and sound sense, and thinking of reading this abomination, please set the book down, and do not waste your energy on it. It is not worth it.

Paolini as a young writer got away with far too much. The language in the book was, at times, unnecesarily flowery, or blatantly immature. Christopher Paolini digs back up the stereotypical 'graceful elf' and the overdone 'boy and his dragon' combination to create a truly disgusting massacre of words.

I am sorrowed by the popularity of this horrendous book.

i loved this book! i think that yeh maybe alot of the ideas are a bit LOTR but yeh its still cool, it reminds me a bit of some kind of computer game and its fun and exciting especially when you read the second book as well.

I think gamers will enjoy this book the most. that or warhammer players... those urgals are so like beastmen!

if you found this book was a 1 or a 2 rating i recommend you read the second book because it explains alot more and changes alot of things you might have thought about the first book (ie arya's age)