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A review by angek98
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
3.0
2016 re-read
My original opinion is still pretty much the same.
I'm pretty much reading this again for Murtagh and Nasuada (fave characters)
So, in the first half of the novel, I feelt like the dialogue was really awkward and it wasn't natural at all. Especially Brom's and Eragon's interactions. I felt likee it was far too easy for Eragon to have a mentor in Brom who knew absolutely everything there was to know about anything. I like a little confusion in my stories for the characters, and not to have everything handed to them on a silver platter.
The characters were pretty bland, not really that interesting, and I skimmed pretty much the entire part when they got to the Varden... I basically only read the parts with Murtagh and Nasuada..... not my fault everything else was boring.
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This is about the third time I'm reading Eragon, and I'm in two minds about it.
Christopher Paolini is a talented author, that much is certain, and I really liked Eragon.
I just think it was unnecessarily long. I could have summed the whole story down into two-hundred pages. There were parts where I was just thinking "Why the heck is this in here" and some parts that were so unnecessary that I can't even remember them.
I really liked the fantsay of it. Dragons, elves, dwarves... sure, there might be some similarities to Lord of the Rings, like how it's in a whole different world, same creatures, etc. But there is just something about it that makes it different in a way.
Some people would argue that there was no plot, that is where I would have to disagree with you. You don't write a novel that long, with no plot, the foreshadowing kind of gives it away, but each to their own.
I have to admit, I was a little dissapointed that there were hardly any girls in the novel, the only main girls are Arya, Saphira, and a little later on, Nasuada and Sloan's daughter which I just totally forgot the name of. It's good that the girls are allowed to fight in the war, but why only the the elven women? Why not us puny humans. Sorry, that was my feminist side taking over my brain, but still, my argument is valid.
Eragon didn't change my life, like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson did, but it's very good!
Each to their own, I suppose.
By the way, what does 'Wyrd' mean?
My original opinion is still pretty much the same.
I'm pretty much reading this again for Murtagh and Nasuada (fave characters)
So, in the first half of the novel, I feelt like the dialogue was really awkward and it wasn't natural at all. Especially Brom's and Eragon's interactions. I felt likee it was far too easy for Eragon to have a mentor in Brom who knew absolutely everything there was to know about anything. I like a little confusion in my stories for the characters, and not to have everything handed to them on a silver platter.
The characters were pretty bland, not really that interesting, and I skimmed pretty much the entire part when they got to the Varden... I basically only read the parts with Murtagh and Nasuada..... not my fault everything else was boring.
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This is about the third time I'm reading Eragon, and I'm in two minds about it.
Christopher Paolini is a talented author, that much is certain, and I really liked Eragon.
I just think it was unnecessarily long. I could have summed the whole story down into two-hundred pages. There were parts where I was just thinking "Why the heck is this in here" and some parts that were so unnecessary that I can't even remember them.
I really liked the fantsay of it. Dragons, elves, dwarves... sure, there might be some similarities to Lord of the Rings, like how it's in a whole different world, same creatures, etc. But there is just something about it that makes it different in a way.
Some people would argue that there was no plot, that is where I would have to disagree with you. You don't write a novel that long, with no plot, the foreshadowing kind of gives it away, but each to their own.
I have to admit, I was a little dissapointed that there were hardly any girls in the novel, the only main girls are Arya, Saphira, and a little later on, Nasuada and Sloan's daughter which I just totally forgot the name of. It's good that the girls are allowed to fight in the war, but why only the the elven women? Why not us puny humans. Sorry, that was my feminist side taking over my brain, but still, my argument is valid.
Eragon didn't change my life, like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson did, but it's very good!
Each to their own, I suppose.
By the way, what does 'Wyrd' mean?