Eragon: Book One (The Inheritance Cycle, 1)

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If you were still a child or teenager, and haven’t read a lot or any high fantasy books yet, you’ll probably love this. Ajihad's daughter Nasuada is elected to command the Varden, and decides to move them to Surda and oppose the Empire openly. I was absolutely green with envy that he could publish a book at age fifteen and receive any kind of acclaim.

A short (and somewhat sarcastic) summary: Main character = Eragon, mysteeeeerious boy-child left with his aunt and uncle by wandering mother, father unknown. I don't know why he decided that his world of Alagaesia had to have EVERY single climate condition imaginable, but doing so made his world seem juvenile, fake, and forced. My feeling was that this book was nothing special because, if I may be so blunt, "it's been done," and it's been done better. He got swept up in popularity and an outpouring of love for his first book largely based on the fact that he wrote it at such a young age. Something like, "Two feet away stood three troops of fifty, in rows of five, making ten people per row" is a sentence uncannily close to one I read in the actual book itself.

Publishers Weekly also gave a positive review for Eldest, praising the revelations in the final pages. Eventually, in an ancient elven ceremony, the Agaetí Blödhren, Eragon is affected by powerful magic, turning him into an elf-human hybrid, and healing his back injury. Then there is Dras-Leona, which is a horrible place where people think that the more bone and sinew you give up, the less you’re attached to the mortal world (what in the world? Well, you didn't hear it from me, but next year is the 20th anniversary of the Random House edition of Eragon, and ya'll just might be getting an illustrated edition (different artist) of Eragon in English. A memory of her scent, accompanied by a yearning and a sorrow, an aching absence for what might have been and now was lost.

Reading some of the reviews, it appears some people thought it was a cliched version of Lord of the Rings. His second novel, Eldest, sold more than 425,000 hardcover copies in its first week, making it the greatest single-week sale ever recorded for a Random House Children’s Books title—hardcover or paperback—and the fastest-selling title in the publisher’s history. She read Eragon’s fortune (side note: this made me happy because it proves that Paolini knew exactly where he was going with this story when he started the book) and said it was nigh impossible to see. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.Eragon goes through traditional bouts of training and learning about himself under the stern tutelage of old wise traveling companion. Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed.

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The main character's most interesting bit of characterization and only vestige of personality is that he collects rocks, and this is only mentioned in one paragraph. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Each individual book has its own first edition and each edition of each book has its own first edition.