This is where we can discuss the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini. I haven't finished Eragon yet so use the spoilers for the other two books.
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Eragon Series
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I have a family member that loves this series to bits and pieces, but I've never read them myself. I'd be interested to hear other opinions on them.
I do find it interesting that Paolini published so young, though!
Posted 1 year ago # -
Personally, I barely finished book 2. Paolini tends to meander amateurishly through his story, which could have been cut down to at least a third of the size, if not more. That, and the series (as far as I read before getting disgusted) tends to mirror LOTR and Star Wars in plot line, and also takes potshots at Christianity multiple times in book 2.
I had planned on reading the third one, but when I heard it didn't get any better and started with a pagan sacrifice ritual or something, I decided I had much better things to read.(And my apologies to any Eragon fans I've possibly offended.)Posted 1 year ago # -
I just finished the three books.
My assessment:
By the time Paolini gets around to releasing the fourth book, the little bit of me that wants to know how it ends won't care anymore.Other than that, it's rather violent, doesn't provide answers to some moral questions regarding warfare that it raises to the characters, has some highly suspicious scenes that crossed the line of 'kinda-okay' to 'not-okay' that I skimmed over, and Paolini can't seem to decide whether to believe in monotheism, panthiesm, atheism, or polytheism.
Add that to the Star Wars/LotR borrowings throughout all the books (haha, they even have two different variants of the "Luke, I am your father" moment in the books), the fact that I cared more about Murtagh than our MC Eragon, and the way the plot kept pausing to talk about random customs of elves and dwarves and riders.... meh, the only thing I really want to know about the last book is whether Eragon will share Frodo's fate and cross the sea which apparently the elves have been across at some point.
Final word:
Star Wars in Middle-earth, without the historical royal magnificence of those who followed Feanor or the strong, decisive, identifiable moral struggles of the Skywalker family.Not going to be a re-read.
For the record, I think Dragonspell is a Christianized Eragon, but that's my take after only one Dragonkeeper book...
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'm about to embark upon this... if my library can ever mange to keep the book on their shelves. It seems to be popular.
Posted 1 year ago # -
The fourth book is coming! It's called Inheritance how fitting. It comes out in SEVEN MONTHS on november 8. I'm not sure I can wait that long to read it. Of course I haven't finished the third book yet but I'm sure I'll want to read the last one to see how it all wraps up.
Posted 10 months ago # -
My older sister started to read the books outloud to my younger sister and I. But she never finished reading it to us.
Posted 8 months ago #
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