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paolini definately shows promise for future books even if eragon/eldest are not the best 3nodding i did enjoy reading them, but the movie was just rediculous. the acting was horrible, it did not follow the book, and these combined made it horribly cheesy in my opinion xp

yeah, i get what you are saying lion, he just needs to get some more experience and practice. 3nodding

Now, for the boy that played Eragon, I thought his acting was quite adequate. Jeremy Irons acting was good. Now, I know their character were nothing like those of the books at all. But, the actual acting was good nonetheless.

And, I agree that his work isn't the greatest, but just at such an age is a great feat in my eyes. Although, I do see a lot of David Eddings and Piers Anthony in his writings. Almost taken directly. There may be much more. I just noticed those two authors. Also, some from Tolkien. Although, most fantasy authors do take from him whether it is on purpose or not. I agree that he should begin writing something else that doesn't involve The Inheritance Trilogy. Well, it's going to be four books now, but you get my meaning. All the same, I enjoyed the movie, and I love the first book. I will be reading Eldest soon.

i love Eragon. i love Eldest i have read both more than 3 times.
when i had finisehd reading them i told my mom wow they should make a movie out of these books. then i hear Eragon the movie coming in 2 years. i am like holy mother f**** yes they made into a movie. then i go to see the movie and end up crying. cause it was sh**
but u are lucky u saw the movie first. if u had read the book first ur eyes would of been bleeding from the crappy movie. but yeah he is a good author and i look forward to the end of this sereis.

*shivers* lets not get me started on the book/movie comparison unless you are ready for lots ranting... stressed stressed twisted

I'm going to say that I enjoyed reading Eragon and Eldest when they first came out and hope to finish the series cause I want to see how Paolini ends it. The movie was b rate in my opinion. Though I and my mother loved Saphira. I say redo the movie but leave Saphira the way she is.

Now one thing that really struck me when I read it a second time after picking up The Dragon Riders of Pern series is that Eragon is too much like the Dragon Riders of Pern. I hope that when he finishes the series and starts another and it happens to be a fantasy that he steer clear of cliches or try not to have too many.

David Clement-Davies author of Firebringer, The Sight, and Fell, has written these three books close enough to be exactly alike Watership Down but still have his own originality to them to keep them from being cheap knock offs of Watership Down. Which Eragon is. Which is why I love all three so much because they are written with talking animals (I have a thing for talking animals) as main characters and there is so much made up lore of the animals heritage that it almost makes you think what they would believe in if animals could talk and had a mind to record their history, not to mention the details heart .

Sorry for the long explanation but wanted to prove my point on why it's a cheap knock off. Though I really think Paolini could have waited to improve his imagination before writing this series.

~Buwie

Well I'm not a big of a fan of it than I used to be and I know what your saying that most books have been knock offs of other books, but for once I want a decent enough young author who can come up with his own story line without borrowing so much from other books or series. Reason I said young authors because it seems to me that most of the time it's a young author that does this stuff, and I'm not talking a 25 year old I'm talking about younger than a 25 year old.

Sorry if it sounded a little blunt but I just have gotten used to being blunt when proving a point.

~Buwie