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Title: Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini, Gerard Doyle ISBN: 0-8072-1962-2 Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (740 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Just plain bad
Comment: Wow. I like pulp fantasy as much as the next die-hard fantasy lover (think Goodkind, Brooks, etc.). This book doesn't even stand up to those admittedly mediocre books. It's just bad. I can't tell you how horribly dissapointed I was with this book. It was just.....bad. I was really hoping this would be the amazing read all those zealots with a flame burning in their eye said it was. Turns out they were like any other fanatics....blinded by the lies they had fallen sway to.
Hint to parnets: don't censor your kids--if they find this book and like it, that's a good thing (anything that gets kids reading is a good thing in my book). If they haven't run across it yet, try to get them interested in a higher quality author's fantasy books for young people--think Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Alexander's Prydian books, etc. We can at least show our kids the road around the deceptively alluring swamps of non-talent that this book represents, even if we can't force them to avoid them completely.
Rating: 3
Summary: Twenty seconds longer
Comment: I tried reading this book. I love good fantasy. I love good anything. But about 50 pages in, I just couldn't take it anymore. There's a reason Eragon's so long, and it has nothing to do with the story. This poor boy (Paolini) is addicted to modifiers, the best evidence we have of a lazy writer. Instead of thinking 20 seconds longer and finding the perfect verb or noun, he took the lazy way out and just hung lots of adverbs and adjectives on his words. Bleah. He could have done better, but now, with his success, why should he? You all have given him too much encouragement, so because he figures sloppy writing is good enough, you'll never get the writing you deserve from him.
What a pity.
Rating: 3
Summary: Dissapointing
Comment: A friend recommended this to me, but I must confess, I wasn't really impressed. The storyline was nearly identical to "The Lord of the Rings" with a bit of J. K. Rowling mixed in. I found Saphira's character to be flat and lackluster to say the least. Her conversations with Eragon seemed forced and unbelievable. Overall, I felt Mr. Paolini took the classic Tolkien triology and simply changed the names a bit.
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan Stroud ISBN: 078681859X Publisher: Miramax (Kids) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau ISBN: 0375822739 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064410137 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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