I think intelligent analyses like that of awilla the hun make people think. And I agree with him: Okay-good books, could be some merit in the criticism, but I will make my mind blank, read the third book when it comes out, and thoroughly enjoy it.

Just to say, I have read Lord of the Rings. Indeed, although it is a digression, I have a special edition copy as a school writing prize. I found Eragon a fairly decent fantasy read on its merits alone. And, considering (old argument alert) that it was the first novel of someone who started it off at fifteen, I suspect that it being remotely readable is a fairly high achievment. If you would study my story list of stuff on this website, you will notice an Eragon parody amongst them. That's me acknowledging its flaws.

As I do not have access to American TV, and do not use shurtugal.com, I cannot say much for Paolini's public speaking or out of inheritance writing. As for the character Eragon, I have to say that he is no worse than a good few characters on this website, although that is probably irrelivant.

And the main problem with leather armour was that it was being worn by a vegitarian elf, which I suspect is only there because our good author developed hormones and put them into his writing. This isn't illegal, it's just quite amusing for parody writers. Whilst on the subject of armour, it didn't say anywhere in the book that the gold metal didn't get battered to pieces. Indeed, Eragon's shield gets fairly mangled in the battlefield, so we must presume that the armour did the same thing.

Also, he plagarises. (might not be a word)

He stole the plot from star wars, a lot of names from various sources, scenes from Pern and LOtR, and the cliche elves and dwarves. Magic system= earthsea.

As far as his ego, it's bigger than any author I know. He commented in a review that (indirectly) he is a better writer than Rowling.

I suspect that, given a father who was in a publishing company (or whatever he was in) I think that we would do much the same thing, make a buck and be shouted at by every website in existence for doing what we all deep down wish could happen to us.

And as to his ego, that's an example of a flawed human being. I have no defence to that one, because I haven't read his personal web page or anything. He is certainly not a better writer then Rowling, though he is perhaps as well known in English speaking nations.

Eragon hasn't been updated in three years. In internet and market terms, that's pretty old. Generally a year is what people shoot for for full legnth books so their target audience isn't too old to like it anymore, but has been waiting and is dying to find out what happened. Three years can be from 8th grade to 11th grade, and those 8th graders will have changed in tastes and likes quite a bit. Bad move VIA marketing.

The summery: Don't worry. When the series ends, Eragon will be gone faster than you can say The Da Vinci Code.

Eragon was poorly written, poorly organized, unoriginal and came as close to plagarism as anything ever could without actually being plagarism. Yeah, Paolini was all of 15 or somesuch when he wrote it, but perhaps he should have waited a few years. In fact, I'll say definitely that he should have waited a few years, perhaps even a decade. There are characters blatantly stolen from LotR, Wheel of Time, Dragon Rider, Dune, etc.

Paolini's parents are publishers, which explains how it managed to get into print. The best I can say for it, and it pains me to do so, is that it is decent intro-fantasy. In other words, it's a good book for 12-15 year olds who want to start reading fantasy novels, perhaps eventually getting into epic series like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time or anything written by Terry Prachett (my god, that man is prolific). In the course of epic novels, Paolini has not subtlety, complexity or originiality.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes wrote better books at age thirteen because she knew her limits and kept her books in a world which she had readily and consistently defined. And her first books were still poorly executed (In the Forests of the Night and Demon In My View mostly.... Hawksong's series, the Keisha'ra, is much better organized and thougt out).

It pains me that Paolini has made money from this book, that he has seen fit to create both sequels and a (**) movie and that people have complimented him for it. Anyone who has read any of the epic kings of fantasy has been severely disappointed by Eragon and its successor.

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