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ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: August 2nd, 2011, 2:06 am
by Memnoch26
WIKI
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The book tells the story of a young farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. A dragon he later names Saphira hatches from the stone, which was really an egg. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about Eragon and his dragon, he sends his servants, the Ra'zac, after them in an effort to capture them. Eragon and Saphira are forced to flee from their hometown, and decide to search for the Varden, a group of rebels who want to see the downfall of Galbatorix.
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The book setting is very similar to the Lord of the Rings. If we have middle earth on LOTR, Eragon has Alagaesia. Characters such as elves, dwarves, orcs, and other mythical creatures also appear on this book.

The book centers on the story of the "dragon riders" or like peace keepers. One rider Galbatorix, is the main villain. He killed all the other dragons. Making him the only dragon rider with a dragon thus became the ruler.

Eragon found one egg and named his dragon Saphira. The book ended with Eragon heading to the elves to further his training to be dragon rider. Since he had Saphira, Galbatorix is hunting him down.

Its the first book of a Quadrilogy (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance). The author -Christopher Paolini, calls his series - The Inheritance Cycle.

The book showed a lot of similarites with LOTR and STARWARS. If you like LOTR, then I think you will like this too. Its a bit easier to read then LOTR. Anyways, I still like it. Though each book is a bit long - a real novel!!!!

The movie is a big disappointment. Its really horrible!!!!

The 4th book is scheduled for release this year. I have been waiting for it for more than a year now.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: August 2nd, 2011, 7:33 pm
by Wanda
The book setting is very similar to the Lord of the Rings. If we have middle earth on LOTR, Eragon has Alagaesia. Characters such as elves, dwarves, orcs, and other mythical creatures also appear on this book.

The book centers on the story of the "dragon riders" or like peace keepers. One rider Galbatorix, is the main villain. He killed all the other dragons. Making him the only dragon rider with a dragon thus became the ruler.

Eragon found one egg and named his dragon Saphira. The book ended with Eragon heading to the elves to further his training to be dragon rider. Since he had Saphira, Galbatorix is hunting him down.

Its the first book of a Quadrilogy (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance). The author -Christopher Paolini, calls his series - The Inheritance Cycle.

The book showed a lot of similarites with LOTR and STARWARS. If you like LOTR, then I think you will like this too. Its a bit easier to read then LOTR. Anyways, I still like it. Though each book is a bit long - a real novel!!!!

The movie is a big disappointment. Its really horrible!!!!

The 4th book is scheduled for release this year. I have been waiting for it for more than a year now.


Nice analogy with LOTR. Although it's probably a nice idea to be a "dragon rider", I found the first book to be lacking in character development and depth, and a far cry from LOTR. I haven't read the 2nd and 3rd books yet but was too disappointed with the first one to even bother with the 2nd and the 3rd.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: August 11th, 2011, 12:00 am
by Memnoch26
hmmm... so thats what the book is lacking.. hehe.. i knew something was missing..

well... maybe you are right...

you're a hard one to please..

anyways... i just want to give credit to the author who had his story published at his teenage years and sold millions... thats an awesome achievement!!


Wanda wrote:
Nice analogy with LOTR. Although it's probably a nice idea to be a "dragon rider", I found the first book to be lacking in character development and depth, and a far cry from LOTR. I haven't read the 2nd and 3rd books yet but was too disappointed with the first one to even bother with the 2nd and the 3rd.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: August 11th, 2011, 11:21 am
by Wanda
Yes, definitely an awesome achievement!

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: November 10th, 2011, 5:02 pm
by Memnoch26
INHERITANCE
by Christopher Paolini

The 4th and final installment of the Inheritance Cycle.

... has anyone seen this in any bookstore?

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: November 10th, 2011, 6:18 pm
by jquin3
Read Eragon during a time when I nothing really good to read. Didn't like it too much. Too derivative of other fantasy novels. But it passed the time and its a book for kids and teens so what do you expect. Then read Eldest and Brisingr. My opinion of it still haven't improved. I'll probably read the last book also. Its like collecting Tex cards (for those of you who are old enough to know what that is) or any bad collection. Once you have one you gotta have them all. Since I've already started with it, why not finish the series.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 3:48 pm
by Memnoch26
... sometimes you just have to finish what you started... you have to get rid of that nasty feeling of "you have to know the ending" that is always lingering in your head... haha!!!

jquin3 wrote:Read Eragon during a time when I nothing really good to read. Didn't like it too much. Too derivative of other fantasy novels. But it passed the time and its a book for kids and teens so what do you expect. Then read Eldest and Brisingr. My opinion of it still haven't improved. I'll probably read the last book also. Its like collecting Tex cards (for those of you who are old enough to know what that is) or any bad collection. Once you have one you gotta have them all. Since I've already started with it, why not finish the series.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 3:50 pm
by Memnoch26
Memnoch26 wrote:... sometimes you just have to finish what you started... you have to get rid of that nasty notion of "you have to know the ending" that is always lingering in your head... haha!!!

jquin3 wrote:Read Eragon during a time when I nothing really good to read. Didn't like it too much. Too derivative of other fantasy novels. But it passed the time and its a book for kids and teens so what do you expect. Then read Eldest and Brisingr. My opinion of it still haven't improved. I'll probably read the last book also. Its like collecting Tex cards (for those of you who are old enough to know what that is) or any bad collection. Once you have one you gotta have them all. Since I've already started with it, why not finish the series.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 5:11 pm
by jquin3
Memnoch26 wrote:... sometimes you just have to finish what you started... you have to get rid of that nasty feeling of "you have to know the ending" that is always lingering in your head... haha!!!

jquin3 wrote:Read Eragon during a time when I nothing really good to read. Didn't like it too much. Too derivative of other fantasy novels. But it passed the time and its a book for kids and teens so what do you expect. Then read Eldest and Brisingr. My opinion of it still haven't improved. I'll probably read the last book also. Its like collecting Tex cards (for those of you who are old enough to know what that is) or any bad collection. Once you have one you gotta have them all. Since I've already started with it, why not finish the series.


Yes, ganon na nga. I'm invested na nga to the story so for good or for ill, I have to know what happens to Eragon.

Re: ERAGON (Inheritance Cycle)

PostPosted: November 11th, 2011, 5:50 pm
by deathwalker
jquin3 wrote:Read Eragon during a time when I nothing really good to read. Didn't like it too much. Too derivative of other fantasy novels. But it passed the time and its a book for kids and teens so what do you expect. Then read Eldest and Brisingr. My opinion of it still haven't improved. I'll probably read the last book also. Its like collecting Tex cards (for those of you who are old enough to know what that is) or any bad collection. Once you have one you gotta have them all. Since I've already started with it, why not finish the series.



I used to play and collect Tex cards until I filled two shoe boxes of them to my mother's horror. Most of them I earned from winning the games but still, I don't consider them as bad collections, just pieces of juvenile history. :mrgreen: