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Eragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini. Paolini, born in 1983, began writing the novel after graduating from home school at age fifteen. After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters. His parents saw the final manuscript and in 2001 decided to self-publish Eragon; Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. The book was discovered by novelist Carl Hiaasen, who got it re-published by Alfred A. Knopf. The re-published version was released on August 26, 2003.
The book tells the story of a farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. The stone is revealed to be a dragon egg, and a dragon he later names Saphira hatches from it. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about the egg, …
Eragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini. Paolini, born in 1983, began writing the novel after graduating from home school at age fifteen. After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters. His parents saw the final manuscript and in 2001 decided to self-publish Eragon; Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. The book was discovered by novelist Carl Hiaasen, who got it re-published by Alfred A. Knopf. The re-published version was released on August 26, 2003.
The book tells the story of a farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. The stone is revealed to be a dragon egg, and a dragon he later names Saphira hatches from it. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about the egg, he sends monstrous servants to acquire it, making Eragon and Saphira flee from their hometown with a storyteller named Brom. Brom, an old member of an extinct group called the Dragon Riders, teaches Eragon about 'The Ways of the Rider.'
Eragon was the third-best-selling children's hardback book of 2003, and the second-best-selling paperback of 2005. It placed on the New York Times Children's Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks and was adapted as a feature film of the same name that was released on December 15, 2006.
Ricorda molto il signore degli anelli e il videogioco Skyrim (o meglio: mi ha ricordato). I dialoghi sono scritti bene, i personaggi sono scritti molto bene e le ambientazioni benissimo.
Le uniche cose che personalmente non mi sono piaciute sono il fatto che sia una trilogia e le scene di guerra (che però sono descritte anch'esse bene, semplicemente non mi piacciono molto).
Years have passed since I read this one and years have been kind to it. so kind that I now know people that say Eragon is "their childhood" and in their top ten list of books.
Weeeeell... not in mine. I read it when it first came out and after a few chapters I was looking for a disclaimer, somewhere, anywhere in the book, where it stated the obvious: "This book is a fantasy AU fanfiction of Star Wars: a New Hope. All rights belong to Lucasfilm..."
That said (and I cannot believe it needs to be said... I mean, there are some scenes that are absolutely identical, from the death of the old mentor, up to the coming home and finding the uncle and aunt dead at the hand of the Empire troops, that I kind hoped for a "I am your father" reveal in book 2) there are …
Years have passed since I read this one and years have been kind to it. so kind that I now know people that say Eragon is "their childhood" and in their top ten list of books.
Weeeeell... not in mine. I read it when it first came out and after a few chapters I was looking for a disclaimer, somewhere, anywhere in the book, where it stated the obvious: "This book is a fantasy AU fanfiction of Star Wars: a New Hope. All rights belong to Lucasfilm..."
That said (and I cannot believe it needs to be said... I mean, there are some scenes that are absolutely identical, from the death of the old mentor, up to the coming home and finding the uncle and aunt dead at the hand of the Empire troops, that I kind hoped for a "I am your father" reveal in book 2) there are other big problems. Like the fact that it's written badly. So badly that it's almost funny. But I guess it's nothing to what it's getting published "nowadays", so maybe I miss old Chris Paolini and his badly written and sloppy edited prose.
