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I stooped reading it and I found it not worth picking up at all. I found this book to be long, dull boring, even not having read the previous book, nothing in the writing compels me to read the previous book. Not at all the excited about reading the third since it would take a whole set of encyclopedias to clear up all the messy plot messes everywhere. It was a schizophrenic split between plots and neither got anywhere fast. I was bored reading it. Not exactly anything new or original in this writing. Just boring and drawn out.
So far, Paolini's creation earns 5 stars from me, it has been a more enjoyable, and more personal read than Lord of the Rings. that makes sense" that they're crying to share with the rest of the fantasy lovers of the world.To slowly nurture his theory on magic into existence, to share it with us by imbuing it within the story of a hero inside a spellbinding world full of skillfully illustrated settings and characters, is Paolini's greatest triumph.
What particularly interests me is how an author breaks barriers in formulating the governing rules of magic, how it is discovered, learned, and the system of laws the creatures of the realm must follow in order to harnest and manipulate this magic. What I look for, when I pick up a fantasy fiction based on elves, dwarves and humans, is how the author has striven to reinvent the races, their relationships, the magic and creatures of the realm, but all within some established conventions and rules (ie: dwarves live in mountains, elves forests, etc).
This book tells me that the author has a theory in his mind, a fresh idea of how magic SHOULD be, how it SHOULD be explained, to on one hand fit the rules and conventions we've come to be familiar with, and on the other hand offer a better, a more revelational, perhaps you can even say a scientific explanation to magic, one that makes people go "oh. It is this governing system behind the use of magic, reinvented by the author that either draws me or repels me to a fiction.Of this, Paolini has done a fantastic work.
What might have appeared boring and dragging to certain impatient readers of Eragon's training with the elves, to me were the most delightful passages of the book. I would agree, that the individual subplots may be a little cliche (only when treated individually, not together), and that some elven names sound strikingly familiar (which I've actually come to appreciate as it allowed me to quickly envision what those names represented), but they have been skillfully woven together to an original story, backed by breathtaking setting, characterization, and most importantly such an original, beautiful and convincing reinvention of the governing laws of magic, psychic bonds, and the philosophies that accompany them.
I will now eagerly turn to the third book.
I only gave two stars because he must read Mercedes Lackey novels too. The first book was read as said before drawn out and I kept catching myself being drawn to other novel's scenes. That is disruptive to the flow of the read.
The first book was great but the second was (if anything) even better because of his maturity in his writing style. It seems that even when the first book in a series is great the second or third one absoluley sucks. Not with something Cristopher Paolini writes. The parellel storyline with Roran add a huge amount to the book. A great book and a fun read.
This product is as advertised. All the disks are scratch free and the case has very little wear. The product was delivered in a short amount of time as I was rather suprized to find it in my mailbox so soon, showing that Ms. Rachel Mann cares about her buyers
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