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Eragon
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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Start date
February 5, 2012
Finish date
February 14, 2012

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Josephine (biblioseph)
Dec 15, 2007 rated it it was ok
Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, own-new-york, dragons, 1st-in-a-series
You might like Eragon. I always found it a Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars plot rip off (considering Star Wars was heavily inspired by Indian Mythology... that's not even clever) I mean, main character is Eragon, Elven love interest is... her name was Arya. Wizard helping friend? Named Brom. He was basically everything Gandalf was. There was a dragon, seeing as he's a dragon rider... It's fine, but it was pretty tired for me. But like Twilight, I ate it up. There are two or three sequels. I ow ...more
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Celeste
Apr 21, 2008 rated it really liked it
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Jenn
May 03, 2008 rated it liked it
I did not enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I had heard good things about it but I found it to lack somewhat. It reminded me of a much lesser LOTR or Hobbit. I have the second book but I'm not sure whether I will read it or not. ...more
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Kathryn Cooper
Jan 10, 2008 rated it liked it
It was slow at first. I'm already hooked on the second in the series called Eldest. ...more
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Avanders
Aug 21, 2007 rated it liked it
Shelves: young_adult, sci-fi-fantasy
Laura
Oct 10, 2007 marked it as to-read
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Aug 16, 2008 rated it really liked it
Suey
Sep 17, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Jane(Janelba)
Jan 10, 2009 rated it it was amazing
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Mar 10, 2009 marked it as to-read
Heather Hope
Mar 21, 2009 rated it really liked it
Uliamos
Apr 28, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Cassie Johnson
May 26, 2009 rated it really liked it
Lydia Fuller
Jun 29, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Rena
Oct 12, 2009 rated it it was amazing
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Heather (DeathByBook)
Oct 31, 2009 marked it as to-read
Karigan
Jul 16, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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Autumn
Oct 12, 2010 marked it as to-read
Kevin Xu
Nov 24, 2010 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
overdone!
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Mellen
Jan 27, 2011 marked it as to-read
Tracey
Mar 02, 2011 rated it it was ok
Diane
Sep 19, 2011 marked it as to-read-home
Traci Sherlock
Dec 27, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Karen
Jan 05, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Rachel
Oct 04, 2012 marked it as to-read
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