Eragon - Christopher Paolini Reviews

The fantasy genre is one that is in all too much danger of becoming tired and worn out. There are few truly superb writers out there, and fewer still original story lines. The strength of Eragon is that it takes a number of common fantasy elements and manages to wind them together into something greater than the sum of its ...  Read the complete review

This book, started by the author when he was just fifteen, has recieved excellent reviews everywhere and even had a film made. The story and plot are fantastic and good description is used throughout the book. Yet, I never got hooked onto it. It was just so long winded and nothing happened at all for ages. Sometimes, there'd be a whole page just ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is the first book in what was originally the Inheritance Trilogy, written by Christopher Paolini. Having now written the third book, Paolini has realised that his saga needs a further book, and thus it will now become a quadrilogy. In terms of describing the saga, and its setting, it is set in a fantasy world not dissimilar to ...  Read the complete review

This book is a prime example of how a new author should start their career. It is impressive in many ways, the fact that Paolini was only 15 when he wrote this makes it more so. In fact if an older author used the same idea it probably wouldn't be nearly as good. As plots go it's fairly standard for the genre, young main character ...  Read the complete review

I was bought the book set of both Eragon and Eldest one christmas due to my love of dragons and fantasy stories. And this one definately did not disappoint. Eragon has grown up with his uncle and aunt as one of their own, he knows little about his mother and nothing at all about his father. As a 15 year old boy he is on the edge of ...  Read the complete review

Christopher Paolini started the inheritance cycle of books with Eragon a few years ago. They are a series of books about Dragon Riders, and a young farm boy named Eragon, who discovers a dragon egg in the wilderness. Once Eragons's egg has hatched, a sparkling blue dragon named Saphira is hatched. Eragon must grow Saphira in secret from ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is a story of a young teenage boy about to become a man. He ventures into a deep mountain range called 'The Spine', hunting deer for his family. But instead he finds a sapphire stone. He takes the stone home hoping to buy the food. He soon finds out that it is not a stone at all... it is a dragon egg. He embarks upon a suspense filled ...  Read the complete review

After reading the Harry Potter series, one of my friends who also liked them recommended this book. There are a lot of similar elements between Harry Potter and Eragon. Both are fantasy stories, both are about the people involved, and both involve mythical creatures, specifically dragons! Based on that basis I decided to try this ...  Read the complete review

I hadn't heard of this book until the film came out and having enjoyed the film I thought I would give it a try. This book is brilliant and the film is now quite disappointing as there is so much in the book hat it has missed out. Eragon is a young boy living with his uncle and cousin on their farm, one day whilst he is hunting in the ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance series. I think the book is aimed at teenagers and is written by Christopher Paolini. Quite recently, a movie was made due to its success but I personally did not think the movie was very good. The book begins with the main character Eragon and him hunting in a mountain range called The ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is about a boy who discovered a sapphire stone when he was hunting deers in a mountain range called 'The Spine'. He decided to take the stone back to his village to sell because he lost his prey. He tried to exchange the stone for some meat at the butcher but the butcher did not accept it. The stone hatched one day at night into a baby ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is the first book that young American author Christopher Paolini, in my opinion it is aimed at a teenagers, although it can be widely enjoyed by everyone. The book was hugely successful and was turned into a somewhat mediocre film. The book is set in the land of Alagaësia, which is under the evil rule of traitor Dragonrider ...  Read the complete review

All day today I have been thinking of how to write such a review, the reason being is the fact that this book has lots of compact stuff in it but it is also a hard one to get through due to the fact that it is very slow... My problem was the fact that I thought, when I got almost half-way, that watching the movie might make me want to finish ...  Read the complete review

Ok, well I bought the boxset of Eragon and the second book, Eldest, about a year ago in a cheap bookstore for about £5 and it has been sat in random places around my room ever since. I have been reluctant to read it and yet very intrigued. All the people who have read Eragon seem to fall into two categories; those who believe it to be one of the ...  Read the complete review

When I first looked at Eragon, upon seeing the image on a dragon on the front cover, I assumed it would be another mythical story with dragons, elves and supernatural creatures which would not open any new doors in story writing but I was proved totally and utterly wrong. The saying "don't judge a book by its cover is appropriate ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is a book that I have read many many times, the reason for this is that I think it is brilliant. The story is about a young farmer boy who in a hunting trip discovers a magical dragon egg. At first Eragon is confused, he has no idea what this beautiful blue polished stone is, but soon it hatches and he grows up to be a legendary dragon ...  Read the complete review

Having heard nothing but praise for this book from my own teenaged sons and my young adult step daughter, and reading the rave reviews critics gave this children's book, I became curious. This turned to an intense desire to read this book when I discovered that it was written by a fifteeen year old boy who was home educated all his life, and soon ...  Read the complete review

Eragon is the story of teenage boy of the same name. Skilled at hunting, he is tracking some deer one day in a mountain range called "The Spine" near his home in carvahall, but instead of finding the dear, he stumbles on a large sapphire stone. Curious to what it could be and where it came from, he approaches it for a closer look and ...  Read the complete review