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Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire. “An authentic work of great talent.”—The New York Times Book Review “Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.”—People “Unusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.”—Booklist, Starred “An auspicious beginning to both career and series.”—Publishers Weekly A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Book Sense Bestseller From the Hardcover edition. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Magic & Sorcery=Flawed Book"Eragon" is the first in the Inheritance Cycle, which should rather be called the "Satanic Cycle." The Devil uses avenues that seem "okay," such as this series of novels, and uses them to get children used to magic and sorcery, so that when they grow up they'll be less averse to actually usuing sorcery. This book is no different from Harry Potter or from the Twilight series, in that they are all tools of Satan. Don't read this book! It won't help you at all, instead, it may hinder you seeing ... Read More Rating:  - Lacks heartThe premise of this story is very alluring. A young ,seemingly, ordinary boy stumbles upon a beautiful stone that turns out to be his destiny. I am a big fan of fantasy and there was a lot of hype surrounding this book. The fact that the writer was a teenager when he penned it does bring a certain amount of admiration. Unfortunatly, as others have been quick to point out, it borrows from other better novels of this genre. Perhaps I would be willing to overlook even that if it had not been for the ... Read More Rating:  - A exellent book, what's with all the bad reviews?Unlike other people, I saw the movie before I read the book. People talked to me about it, but I thought it was a depressing book series with the last dragon on earth in it. But after seeing the movie and learning I had been mistaken in this viewpoint, I got the book from the library and am now reading 'Brisingr'. A young boy named Eragon, raised by his Uncle Garrow and Aunt Marian in the land of Alagaesia, where the evil King Galbatorix ... Read More Rating: - StephaniThis book kept me involved in the story from the first chapter to the last page and wanting more! I couldn't wait to get out and read the next book, and the next! Hopefully they won't keep us waiting for book 4 for too long! Rating: - YuckReads like a particularly bad D&D module got sick on and threw up a junior thesaurus. The ratio of made-up words is high, the name of the king is a mishmash of the lead Decepticon from Transformers and 'dominatrix,' words aren't used properly, and there's a huge amount of redundant language. I realize this is the author's first book, but doesn't his publisher have editors? 
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