Eragon
 

Eragon....has ne1 read it? I like it...I just wanna know what people think.

One of my coworkers is friends with the guy whose (homeschooled) kid wrote the book, so I knew about it approximately a year prior to publication.

I understand it's supposed to be quite good, and I've been meaning to get around to it. I'll wait for paperback, or more likely paperback used availability, though. Not that I begrudge the kid any money, but I don't have the time currently, and the money I'm not spending on books right now I'm spending on gasoline.

I talked with the author at a book signing.

I doubt that I would read the book, but he seemed to be pretty cool.

i read it a few months ago and i thought it was a great book. alot of people criticize it be cause the author was so young and alot of the character and region names seemed borrowed from older, more popular, sci-fi and fantasy novels : eragon/aragorn, haddarach desert, &, so on; and the plot line is hardly original (of course, that can be said about most "chosen one" fantasy novels). however, eventhough it lacked originality, the story wasn't at all predictable.
the characters themselves were well developed and the storyline was well thought out. it was one of those books that was hard to put down and i would catch myself thinking about while i was preoccupied with doing something else.
overall, i thoroughly enjoyed the read and look forward to the sequel and am curious to see if the young author will be able to keep the momentum or if his future books will mimic the MARTIX movies

Re: Eragon
 

Eragon is that the king in the lord of the rings or did you just made that up?

The strangely human dragon on the cover always intrigues me, but I've never actually picked it up.

Re: Re: Eragon
 

The name in lord of the rings is aragorn...