Eragon (Inheritance)
by Christopher Paolini
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Author: Christopher PaoliniEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-12
ISBN: 0440240735
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Book Review: "By the Gods of Kwondor, I will be avenged!!!"
Summary: 4 Stars
. I like sci-fi and dislike that the sci-fi part of most bookshops has been taken over by stories involving dragons. And elves. Sci-fi is about spaceships and lasers and stuff. The only goblin I want to hear about is during the love interest and that's only if its critical to the plot! So I have had to generate some rules to filter prospective reads. These are:-
a) Never read a fictional book that has a map at the start that features place names ending in "or" or with names such as "the enchanted forest", "the mountains of doom" "the desert of almost certain death".
b) Never read one where the protagonist has a name with a "Z" or an "X" in it, or ends "or" unless it's Trevor. Or Ivor.
c) Features dialog on the first page that sounds something like "Prince Zandor drove his gasping steed the last furlongs up the hill to castle Gardornack. He had ridden hard for 3 days since the Battle of the Kongor Hellpots had been lost of the Death Legion of Pooglplop rode unchecked through the Kingdom of Xantac". Or indeed the classic theme," By the 12 Gods of Zonkotax, I will be avenged!!!"
And of course Eragon features lashings of all of the above with jam on, and little cakes around the side. The language of the book is clumsy and it indeed reads like an adolescent fantasy of some young type who really wanted to have a girl-friend and be a big hero and all of that, but he didn't get out much because he was shy and had never seen a girls boobies, so he wrote what might happened if you could order a dragon over the internet and use it to push those big bullies about at school that made fun of him being a virgin etc etc.
And what happened? He took his destiny in his own hands and wrote what is still a pretty impressive book, with a complex enough plot, reasonably rounded characters and an impressive scope. Now he can probably buy a dragon, and lives in a castle with The Sugarbabes or something and has more money than I can ever dream of. Fair play to the lad.
When I was 15, I could hardly finish a 2-page essay because I was too busy having girlfriends, being good at sport and bullying that little nerd down the road who kept going on about goblins and dragons and stuff.
If I had a fraction of this lads stamina, my conceptual proto-novels, "Dave Jesus Investigates" would have turned into a multi-million selling franchise, with a film and everything. Think of it, The Second Coming in 1987 San-Francisco, with Our Lord walking the earth in the guise of a private investigator, "Dave Jesus", who solves cases using his otherworldly miracle power, much to the amazement of his hard-bitten side kick Stan Legions who had lost his faith after his wife and family had been killed in a tragic church collapse. I suppose I could have added a dragon or two on retrospect...
Anyway. The lad has written a book, that isn't particularly original, but it is better written than many, if not most, and was readable enough for me to read the second one as well, and the missus has the last one which I will no doubt read when I have finished my grown up books. So well done Christopher, gold star and top of the class!
Edit - Oh No, "Dave Jesus Investigates has just been optioned by Kevin Coster, oh crap!
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