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Title: bad, bad, bad
Review: As we all know by now, the author was fifteen when he wrote Eragon. Whoever he showed it to should have said, "This is a great book, kid. You should become an author when you grow up!" But instead they went and published it.Aside from the beautiful cover, the book has almost nothing to recommend it. There are nearly no original elements. The characters have no personality to speak of, except for the dragon, who is smug. The action is patently unbelievable from paragraph to paragraph--I remember one scene where Eragon draws his bow and fires an arrow behind him to kill an opponent who's chasing him, and I finally quit reading when he was able to beat one of the best swordsmen in the world, left-handed, after only a few months of practice since growing up as a farm boy.
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