Eragon: Inheritance, Book I

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Product Details

Author : Christopher Paolini
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780375826689
Number of Pages : 544
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2003-08-26
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Reading Level : Young Adult
Release Date : 2003-08-26

ASIN : 0375826688

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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

Customer Reviews

Eragon a Amazing Book (2008-03-31)

The Book I like to talk about is Eragon it is a mirale and stupendous it has imaginative Creature, Action, and Fantasy. The Book is exciting and adventurous for kids to read.The Creatures in the story are intresting because they are creative. The Dragons are giant lizards that can breathe Fire, Fly, and companions to the Dragon Riders, but People believed that the Dragons are extinct, but three eggs were saved, and one of the eggs, a blue egg was teleported to the Spine mountains and a Boy name Eragon found the egg and thought it was a blue stone, when the egg hatched it came a blue dragon hatchling, and servants of the King who was evil was sent to look for the egg and Eragon fight them and other servants to the King to save the Kingdom. There are monsters like Werewolves in movies, but what about a werecat, it a combination of a werewolf and a cat creature, Eragon had met a werecat in the city of Teirm, that is near or in the Spine, and in the city he met a witch named Angela who had met his fortune. There are servants to the King that arem two Ra'zacs, and lots of Urgals that are hideous creatures that do as the King told them to do. And finally there are Dwarves and Elves who have Magic, and lead a group called the Vardens. The Creature in the book has a huge imagination.There are lots of heroically action in the book. There are lots of battle against the King and his servants. Brom gave Eragon a sword called the Zar'roc and fight the Ra'zacs in Carvahall and again in the city of Urubean. There is also the battle against the Shade Durza and fought him in Gil'lead and escape and fought him again in Farthern Dur and use magic to slay him. The actions in the Book is superior heroic.The book has incredible Fantasy for people to read. The world where Eragon lived in, is magical with magic, the ancient words in the Book that can form spells like fire, psychic powers, a ability to move rocks, and other magical spells to use against the King and his servants. Eragon use magic to slay the Shade Durza who works for the King. After the Battle, Durza turned into a swirling vortex of Darkness tha his entired memories flashed to Eragon. The Book has lots of magical Fantasy.The book is amazing and it is a adventure itself to the reader that is me and some other of my classmates who are my friends had read it, and said it was very good book.

Boring (2008-03-02)

That title says it all. Boring from the beginning, and I gave up near the middle. Didn't ever bother picking it up again. If you want to read about dragons, I suggest Naomi Novik's Temeraire series instead.

Horrible (2007-12-17)

I bought Eragon on a friends recommendation. If I had known how cliched, and poorly written this book was I would never have touched it. I managed to get about 100 pages in when suddenly I realized that something seemed a little off. I scanned back a page and realized that about 40 pages were missing but it made no difference to the story. After the cookie cutter characters, the lack of showing the reader a coherent passage of time, and plot cut and pasted out of Tolkien, I decided enough was enough, I was bored that summer but not that bored. I would only recommend this book for children 10 and under, and even then with great reservation. No self-respecting adult with a love of the Fantasy genre could bother torturing themselves with this read.

a kid's work (2007-10-07)

I must say, this kid's work is as good or better than any adult's novel. The imagination it must have took to come up with this story. I loved the friendship that Eragon and Saphira have. This is a thrilling book that everyone should read. You'll be lost in the book till the very end.

Not bad. No not at all. But not a masterpeice. (2007-09-02)

This is a pretty good read for a fantasy fan. It has dragons, magic, elves, dwarves, battles etc. I liked it well enough. It was pretty cool because of the dragon rider concept. I was set in an interesting world with cool places. BUT...The whole thing was a little unoriginal. It doesn't really stand on its own or as high as Middle Earth or Earthsea. Also the writing style was poor at some points. I mean people talk about how amazing it is that a 15 year old wrote this. But the thing is you can tell that he wrote this when he was a teen. Lastly the main character was just a pinch unlikable.But still it was entertaining and fun. I loved the creatures and the world. Also I like to think that Christopher Paolini will write some better fantasies in the future

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