content: Really, I wanted to like it. That's why I kept reading. But ultimately, an editor needed to sit him down and tell him to take it down a notch. Or two. It was soooo overwritten and totally unoriginal. I got the feeling that Paolini is used to everyone defering to his superior intellect and that nobody around him had the sense or the heart to tell him his book was crap. It took me days to plod through it.