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Title: Not another one (groan)
Review: Not another "this is a children's book, so don't criticize it" reviewer. Wendelin Van Fan, here's some stuff for you.Wendelin said that criticizing Eragon is like "13 year olds criticizing Berenstein Bears." First off, how do you know the ages of the reviewers? Many of them are in fact "young adults". I'm sixteen and I know a crappy, cliched book when I see it.Second, Paolini obviously didn't mean for Eragon to be as immature as you think it is. His own website shows his pretentiousness in quotes like "I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf." He's comparing his own work to established classics, so why shouldn't we do the same? Face it. Eragon's not a decent children's book. It's a poorly written adult book and anyone, no matter how old he or she is, has the right to criticize it.
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