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Title: AS ORIGINAL AS HELEN KELLER JOKES
Review: Eragon isn't so much an original novel as a compilation of bad fantasy cliches. The author has somehow managed to incorporate every single one of these into the space of a mere few hundred pages, from placing apostraphes in the middle of proper nouns (how exotic!!) to big firebreathing dragons, swords with MAGICAL DARK POWERS, and zombies bent on killing everything that moves. And this ugly amalgam is laudable because the author is 18? Give me a break. To make an analogy, if you took Brad Pitt's face, gave it Johnny Depp's ears, added Jackie Chan's chin, and finally appended Denzel Washington's nose, would the result be worth looking at?The only thing more depressing than this book is the fact that so many people imbibe this garbage with such voraciousness - indeed, at the time that I visit this page, Eragon is 279th on the Amazon.com sales list. Sad.
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