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Title: Great fan-fiction.
Review: Not, however, a great novel. It's quality stuff that I'd expect to read on an Internet forum somewhere, but I'm unhappy that I paid money for it in book form.If I wanted to read Tolkien's and LeGuin's stories, I would have gone straight to their books. If I wanted to read an impressive book from a teenage author, I'd have opened up "The Neon Bible" by John Kennedy Toole again. "Eragon" isn't the first choice in any of these categories, though.I admire the young writer for his discipline in pumping out books of such length. My second star is for that talent. It's a sign that he has a long writing career ahead of him. Like other reviewers have said, I'll check him out again in a decade or so when he starts writing his own things instead of fan-fiction paeans to his favorite writers.
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