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Title: A dry story
Review: I won't bother rehashing old arguments. Eragon is derivative and there's nothing that can be done about that. I understand that fantasy usually is derivative. Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are also derivative of other sources. But what makes Eragon's derivativeness worse than that of Star Wars and LOTR? This book is dry. In SW and LOTR, there are interesting characters and action to mask the derivative elements. But Paolini says "characters are born out of necessity". The story has no soul; it has a plot but nothing else. That's why the cliches are more obvious in Eragon than in others books.
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