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Paolini's Disappointment (2008-03-31)  When I heard that Christopher's Eldest had come to stores, the book found itself in my hands right away. Excitement rushed through me as I thought of reading the sequel of Eragon which I found to be a glamorous fantasy novel. Although the overall plot of Eldest unravelled to be quite interesting, disappointment shadows me when I discover that Paolini could have worked a bit more on the book.A major portion of the book took place through much of Eragon's training, this bored me. Through those many chapters readers did learn about the traditional ways of elven life. However, readers will slowly become fatigued by reading the many tasks that Eragon recieves and how he continues to fail them. The author used too much detail to express all the techniques used by Eragon's mentor; Oromis for his training. When Paolini wrote these chapters, he missed an important rule when writing books. When writing a sequel; an author must always remember to create great and captivating wrting to meet the expectations of his/her fans. By trying to express Eragon's training too much, Paolini presumably had lost the interest of many of his readers. Many copies of Eldest are probably are lying around in homes, not read completely but abandoned. Paolini should have abbreviated the training into one or two chapters. All the important parts can be mentioned specifically but the rest should be mentioned generelly. Hence, Christopher Paolini should have added details to the enthusiastic parts of the book rather than the insignificant parts (like Eragon's training). Otherwise, readers will no longer be engaged in his book.I noticed that Eragon and Saphira were too involved in romance. Their constant thoughts of love often irritated me. They frequently forget the war that raged on around them! I felt uneasy reading the many differences betweeen the personality traits of the main characters of Eragon and the same main characters in Eldest. In Eragon, Saphira is somewhat a wise being but in Eldest, she becomes a bit more childish. She often admits herself to her love for Glaeder; the other golden dragon. I find it that the fans of ERagon would be displeased with that kind of foolishness from Saphira. Paolini must constantly remember that his readers now have greater expectations for the characters when reading his second book. I also find no logic when Paolini has Eragon in his love mood at a time when he is training for the fate of Alagaesia. Readers will see that Paolini has played too much with the romantic affairs of the characters. This impacts the book in a negative way.Through the many explanations of the elves in Eldest, readers can notice how the elves impersonate Tolkien's elves. A major portion of the book is like a duplication of Tolkien's work. To me, Paolini's elven society proves to imitate the elves in Lord of the Rings. In Eldest, we see the great beauty of the elves, their glorious wisdom, their superiority and a few more characteristics. all these are congruous trauts to the elves of Tolkien. Finally; I believe that Paolini should have modified the elves to make it unique from Lord of the Rings.Even though Paolini may have bored a portion of the story, played too deep with romance and imitate Tolkien's work, there is some good to the book. Overall, the storyline was somewhat captivating. Readers will find an interesting plot twist at the end. The main idea of Eldest proved to be quite good and alluring At the end, readers will see that if Paolini worked more on his writing style, the book may have been more sensational.In final analysis, the book was structured and written poorer than expected by readers. Paolini's main idea shines in its brilliance, but he forgets where the details should have been added, he adds romance at illogical times and some of his ideas were a substitution of Lord of the Rings. All in all, good story, not as good structure or writing.
Une suite à la hauteur ! (2008-01-29)  Un deuxième tome qui aura grandement rempli mes attentes me surprenant même par la maturité de l'auteur, il faut dire aussi que Paolini sera passé de 15 à 21 ans entre le début du premier tome et la fin du second, de quoi permettre un grand changement de style et une belle évolution du texte... Le tout commencera avec un retour au source à Carvehall et l'histoire de Roran qui sera mêlé bien malgré lui à cette grande lutte entre le bien et le mal, d'ailleurs il ne saura pas avant un bon moment pourquoi il est entrainé dans tout cela... il ne fera donc que se sauver pour ensuite se défendre et entrainé tout le village entier à sa suite pour qu'il puisse survivre, d'aventures en aventures ils réussiront l'impensable et deviendront une légende... le premier village a avoir oser se soulever contre l'empire et Galbatorix et surtout à avoir réussit à s'extirper de ses griffes... Durant ce temps Eragon et Saphira seront chez les Nains à finaliser les derniers détails de leur nouvelle vie et obligations, allégeance sera faite aux Vardens en même temps qu'il acceptera de devenir frère de sang d'un des clans Nain et ce juste avant de partir pour Ellesméra la patrie Elfe... Que d'obligations pour un jeune dragonnier qui ne connaît encore rien du monde... Arrivé chez les Elfes il commencera ses études et fera de nombreuses découvertes fort surprenantes, d'ailleurs le gros des surprises se passeront chez eux de son maître en passant par Arya qui la repoussera à maintes reprises à la fête des dragons qui changera à jamais son visage, de l'apprentissage de la gramarie et bien d'autre chose... Un univers à part du reste du monde sera sa demeure pour de nombreuses semaines et lui permettra d'évoluer fortement et de passer de la fougue de la jeunesse à l'humilité de l'élève qui sait qu'il lui en reste encore beaucoup à apprendre... Viendra le moment de partir pour aller défendre les Vardens dans une lutte sans merci contre l'empire, une lutte qui sera le couronnement de biens des efforts pour les 3 races qui auront tout miser sur un seul et même homme... L'histoire ne se déroulera pas du tout comme cela avait été prévu, la bataille sera gagné et perdue en même temps... De nombreuses surprises seront dévoilés et la douleur sera de la partie... difficile de dire dans de telles conditions qui gagnera vraiment cette guerre... le tome 3 risque fort bien d'être enlevant avec les nombreuses questions qui sont restées en suspens dans ce volume... Vivement qu'il soit traduit !
entertaining, but predictable (2007-12-24)  while I enjoyed this installment, I was disappointed with the predictability of the story line. From the opening scenes, I was reasonably certain of many of the major elements of the storyline. It was an entertaining read, and I'm looking forward to the final installment, but I found this book to be less captivating than Eragon and entirely too predictable.
Empire, Eldest, Eragon (2007-09-29)  I've already read the first two books. And I ever since I've read them, I always went through the possibilities that could happen to Eragon in every possible ways. And I hope in Empire, the third egg hatches for Eragon. I think I read that the king got a second egg after he had lost the first one. And that means that two eggs can hatch for a same person. Except in Eragon's position, he didn't lose his dragon. But still, it would be exciting and would be fastinating to see Eragon and Saphira with another dragon. I always thought the dragon would be green, and now I think about it, it can be white too. Like it said the first dragon rider's name was Eragon, but he had a white male dragon. Or so I thought I read. And it would be cool if he had a white dragon and a blue one. But than, I know it will probably be something else. Like another person gets the egg and it goes on and on. But almost everybody thinks that. I jope the author comes up with an interesting story. Anyways, I will still love the book. I love almost every book I read. No matter how boring it is.
Weak 2nd installment of the trilogy?? (2007-09-09) I bought Eragon on a whim, enjoyed it, and went out and bought Eldest as soon as I finished the first book.I found myself speed-reading a lot of Eldest however, and I suspect that this will go down as the trilogy's weak link. Don't get me wrong however, i still think that Paolini has created a remarkably strong fantasy world in this trilogy.A lot of other people have compared the "Eragon training with the elves" section in Eldest to "Luke training with Yoda" in Empire Strikes Back, and I think this is a useful comparison, because the contrast shows Eldest's faults.In Empire, the Luke training with Yoda stuff is done fairly quickly, and because of the dark swamp setting, and the haunting presence of Darth Vader, there is a compelling sense of menace in the scenes.In Eldest, the Eragon training with the Elves stuff GOES ON FOREVER and is by and large unconvincing. He trains and reads for hundreds of pages but in the end, he becomes a better Dragon-Rider in that final moment when the elves blast him with that magical power enhancement spell. Great. So what did I read all the preceding pages for?Paolini tries to create a sense of menace by having Eragon constantly racked with pain from the wound he suffered in the fight with Durza. This gets very boring very quickly, and his editors should have replaced all the little attacks with one massive attack near the end of his training - Eragon should leave the elves feeling like he still has a weakness to be aware of, not feeling like superman due to the elvish spell they zap him with.the Arya stuff is pretty darn weak as well. It's like throwing in some Sweet Valley High stuff into a series which is supposed to have the darkness of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It just doesn't work.And as Empire Strikes Back has the Han Solo/Millenium Falcon escape from the Empire race to balance out Luke's training, Paolini uses Eragon's cousin Roran to balance Eragon's training.Roran?? Well, he is okay. The village's fight against Galbatorix's soldiers is interesting enough, but Roran is another humorless brooding figure and there sure isn't the zippy dialogue and great interplay between Han and Leia that makes those scenes in Empire so good.So - if Eragon had been the quality of Eldest, I probably wouldn't have read any more of the series. I'm hoping that Book Three will recapture the tension of Book One, and that Paolini will learn from Eldest what NOT to do when he writes further fantasy.Eldest is a weak middle link, but as I say, this is still a great fantasy world which has been created.
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