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Title: excruciatingly unoriginal
Review: I'd heard about this book--with all those marketing dollars, who hasn't? Started reading it, and the more I read the more I began to feel a sense of unreality that this particular book is getting so much marketing attention. It's nothing but a passably written string of cliches wandering through a maze of better writer's ideas. After reading 200 pages I gave up in disgust. The publishing industry created celebrity status in the young author because of his youth and got away with it. But I do know young people who are very original and profound, even wise in their thinking. This book is excruciatingly UNoriginal, lacking in depth, and the style of writing is immature at best. Bottom line, if you buy it you're only proving the marketers right--that the public can be led by marketing dollars, even turning a silly imitative book like Eragon into a bestseller.
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