About this title: When a 15-year-old peasant boy named Eragon finds a mysterious blue stone, he thinks he might be able to sell it in order to buy food for his poor family. He is understandably surprised then, when the stone turns out to be a dragon's egg from which a female dragon named Saphira soon hatches. Eragon then learns that he is a descendent of the Riders ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 08/2003
ISBN-13:9780375826689ISBN:0375826688
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 544 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375826689ISBN:0375826688
Description: Good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 544 p. Contains: Illustrations. Inheritance Trilogy (Hardcover), 1. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. read more
Description: Very Good. 044023848X This HUGE mass market paperback book is in REAL GOOD SHAPE! ! FIRST EDITION! Full number line is 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1! Some creasing of the spine and minor signs of wear along the edges and the corners--nothing major! SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a good looking book! ! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. WITH PHOTOS FROM FILM-cover shows slight wear; pages appear unmarked. Trilogy (Paperback), 1. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375826696ISBN:0375826696
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean pages with no markings in the text. No spine creasing. A spot on the front cover where a sticker was removed. Very light edge wear. Corner crease on the top front. read more
"This is a awesome book for all people that love dragons and the story is super interesting and fun. when you start reading it you will not stop until it ends the book."
"My son has trouble sleeping and unwinding at the end of the day. So we bought these for xmas and they really help him unwind and fall asleep at bedtime, he loves them."
"While I hesitated to read this book at first (saw the insipid movie, and not a big fan of juvenile books in general), it's actually a great fantasy novel. Reading can be such a great escape, and these novels (I'm now on the 3rd in the series) are a great example of this.
I'm sure to irritate a lot of people by saying that I've purposely avoided the juvenile books for the masses (the Harry Potter cult and the Twilight-crazed zombies). And I was afraid that this series would be more of the same; overrated drivel with no original thoughts, and an intellectual regression.
But this first novel captured my attention (no easy task) for most of a weekend. Luckily, the friend who insisted that I read this novel had the other two for me to start right after I devoured the first. Although it's not a short novel, time seemed to fly by (no pun intended, dragon and all, ha ha), and I didn't want the book to end. It's always a good sign when I get to the last page and I'm disappointed that there's not more after that.
Like any good fantasy novel, by the time I was done, I believed in all the ridiculous parts-- dragons, magic, etc. Much like the Anne Rice vampire novels, I half expected to see some of the fantastic characters (werecats?) walking around in the real world afterwards. That's not to say that I lost my freakin' mind, REALLY, it's just that I came to accept that world, and that I became completely engrossed in it.
Yes, there were a few moments where I realized how young the author must have been when he wrote this, which made me in turn feel a little old. But considering that he was only 15 when he wrote this, and that this was his first novel, it's pretty amazing that I didn't find myself annoyed by his naivete. Instead, I forgot all about his age (and mine), and just enjoyed the novel.
And no, it's not aimed at today's barely literate youth. The vocabulary is definitely more sophisticated than that, and the subject matter can be enjoyed at any age, I would think.
So if you have an imagination, and you enjoy escaping from all your daily realities into a completely different world, I'd recommend this book. But I warn you: you, too, may find yourself making excuses to read your book whenever possible, and being somewhat irritated by any/all distractions."
"I read this book when it first came out. I fell asleep reading it as I just could not put it down. There is some very interesting ideas floated around in the book that makes you place yourself right alongside Saphira and Eragon and help push them along through the story. When the movie came out, I was not too disappointed, as there have been by far much worse movie remakes of books that were very disappointing, like battlefield earth. I had to reread the book 5 times to get the bad taste out of my mouth from watching that piece of trash. The movie Eragon stayed true to the idea of the book, though I missed watching Saphira grow up much slower in the book then on the screen. Another item that would have been sweet to watch would have been the great crystal that shattered. I also wondered why Arya did not have pointed ears, she is a Elf, right? But this is about the book, and a very wonderfully written book it is in that it will grab you and not let you go until the final sentence has been read, then will have you wanting more."
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