Anyone have an opinion on 'Eragon'
POSTED BY: Peulsar5
UPDATED: Saturday, November 18, 2006 06:08
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I saw this book in a bookstore the other day and it looked kinda interesting, but I had never heard of it. So, I thought "who better to ask than my fellow Browncoats."
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http://www.eragonmovie.com/
they making it in2 a movie this year...
never read the book but the flim seems ok
Lets Be Bad Guys...........
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Hatred and loathing.
This thing was written by a ruttin' kid who has obviously read every fantasy book in existance. He rehashed them and became a bestseller while wonderful and original books languish on the shelves. Please don't give this book/trilogy any time, thought, or money.
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I agree w/PhoenixRose: every single fantasy/myth/etc. plagarized. Sad. Reads like a child wrote it; which he did. Not worth the $$.
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Peulsar5 buy the book.Yes Eragon does borrow a lot of ideas from many fantasy,myth,orc books but does not make it a bad read its a okay but not great.
My brother bought the book about a year ago & he became obssessed with Eragon I didn't buy it I wouldn't read it but when I heard there was to be a Eragon movie I decide to find out what all the fuss was about,so now I've read both Eragon & Eldest(sequel) I'm excited about the movie especially since its changed the story quite a bit which isn't the greatest.
Buy the BOOK,then watch the MOVIE.The movie is coming out on DEC 15.
Orginalty is something which is rare in this day & age,Firefly & Serenity being some of the few.
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Brought it ('cause theres a movie coming out, and it was dead cheap), got some way through. Put it down. Didn't read it for a few nights, put in a cupboard. forgot about it.
Got too have lot of patience to read. Big book. Just wasn't for me. 
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Darkfly, I heartily disagree. It is not a good read by any stretch of the imagination. I could not even get halfway through this piece of garbage.
And plenty of bad books have been made into movies. It just means they've sold. You know what gets a book sales 99 times out of 100? Marketing. They marketed this thing to hell because the 'author' was so young, so it sold. Did it stay on the bestseller list? No, because it isn't actually very good.
I restate; don't waste your time. Every fantasy book out there is worth more than this one. Read them first. []
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I said it was a good read,which means in my book is like a 3 star film,not rubbish just entertaining enough to read while I had nothing to do one day,my brother was pestering me to read it for nearly a year.
Plus PHOENIXROSE this is an opinion post so not everybody likes or dislikes it.
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Actually, not too bad. Not something I would pick up again, but it was entertaining. I am looking forward to the movie because of the cast...not sure how it will be, but if it is bad, it'll only be a few hours out of my life. Besides, the cinema has good popcorn. 
If you have the time, and are into fantasy books, give it a shot. If you find you can't get through the first twenty or so pages, quit then.
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It might be worth borrowing from your local library or a friend. The story is good (not great), and the world he creates is engaging enough. Granted, he isn't particularly creative, but that's okay. The writing style itself is quite bad and it can be somewhat annoying to read because it is preachy -- you can tell it was written by an adolescent.
I had hoped his writing style would improve for the second book, "Eldest". It did, somewhat, but the story was lacking -- it was mainly just a filler so that he could write a third novel for the trilogy.
In sum, while it would be wisest to borrow "Eragon", buying it for very cheap wouldn't be a horrible thing. Paying for the sequel, "Eldest", however, would be a mistake.
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