Wow. I really enjoyed it when I first read this book. I think he is taking too long to release these next ones but oh well. I'll still be waiting to read them. I really like the characters and the world he is creating, but I have to say that the movie was crap. The movies should have been epic but instead were just a failure in my mind. But try the book. Its excellent. ( )

This book, as others are stating, is very derivative. To me it feels rather like someone threw Lord of the Rings and Star Wars together in a blender and wrote what came out - you can tell that Paolini was quite young when he wrote this. The characters are cliched and the plot predictable. The prose is clunky and would have benefited from a good, thorough editing.

I read this one back in the days when I refused to put down any book without having finished it, no matter how much I disliked it, but boy, finishing this one felt like work. I don't recommend it to anyone - the story's been done before, and a lot more skillfully, by other authors. ( )

This book didn't disappoint! I saw the movie, and had been wanting to read the book for quite some time. I'm glad I finally found the time to read it, because it's probably one of the best books I've read in a very long time. It does a great job of filling that gap where Harry Potter used to sit :o)

The story is about a boy named Eragon who finds a stone which turns out to be an egg. After it hatches, Eragon learns that it's a dragon, and raises it. All the while, an evil dragon rider and self-proclaimed king, Galbatorix, is on the hunt for the missing dragon. Eragon's home and family are destroyed by the king's spies, the Ra'zac. Brom, the local storyteller, finds Eragon and explains to him what a dragon rider is. The Varden, a ersistance group, has been waiting for a new rider to appear to defeat Galbatorix. On their journey to find the Vardon, Brom teaches Eragon about the riders.

This book is the first of four installments, and is full of interesting characters and sword-weilding action. I love the characters, and the creativity of the story. It's got all of the classic elements: farm boy turned hero, romance, adventure, villains, and sidekicks. Chris Paolini is an imaginative writer with impressive skills, considering he started writing this when he was 15. I will definitely read the rest of the series. ( )

This book is a good book if you like fantasy and magic. It has very descriptive words and the author was only fifteen when he wrote it! So go out and buy or check out Eragon today.:) ( )

Amazing books written by a young man ( )