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Mar 03, 2011

Amelia rated it:

What a steaming pile this was! Paolini appears to be terrified as to what he will do next, because he is clearly dragging the "Inheritance Cycle" out just as far as he can! Look, I realize that it must be terrifying to peak at 17...I wouldn't know, I'm still waiting for mine...but, accept it and move on kid!

This book, on it's own (or if you didn't like the first two) is pretty much unreadably annoying. It was long, drawn out, rubbish full of excessive sentimentality and More...

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Oct 05, 2008

Alena rated it:

For the love of all that is good and decent in the world, MAKE THE EXPOSITION STOP!!!

I didn't think it was possible for this series to get worse after Eldest. I was wrong. This book is nearly 800 pages of pointless adjectives, with perhaps six pages' worth of plot... most of which is just review (described in *excruciating* detail) from the previous books.

Don't waste your time or money... unless you really need a cure for insomnia.

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Sep 24, 2008

Lauren rated it:

So, I was a little disappointed with this third installment of Paolini's Inheritance "Cycle" now - since he changed the game and made this a 4 book series instead of 3, as it was originally intended.

The story was good and what I have come to expect from this series. But honestly, it did not have to be 748 pages long. I understand the author's desire to flesh out his characters, but the way that he kept going back and forth between the different characters I found annoying. More...

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Apr 12, 2010

Ceridwen rated it:

So, the library is demanding that I return this tome. I think I may be done reading. If I hadn't lost my real book, I never would have gotten 200 pages in. I only managed that reading every third page.

I'm sad because Eragon is my favorite book to love to hate. It's got so many things wrong with it: horrible sense of place, ridiculous "wisdom", bad magic, racial and gender assumptions that range from badly considered to offensive. But the book had a certain greasy charm. It' More...

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Sep 30, 2008

Jedidiah rated it:

I love this book. I wish it was longer. Amazing!

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Oct 02, 2008

Min rated it:

I'm sure I'll get hate comments for this rating. But I just was bogged down by Paolini's formal and dry descriptive text. Maybe I'm just too far removed from the other books these years later. I really liked the first two, I just couldn't get into this one. I feel like the story just sort of meanders around.

(SPOILER ALTER) The wedding scene was particularly terrible. It was so long and drawn out. I don't like to go to long drawn out weddings in real life. Reading one was tha More...

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Sep 08, 2011

Swankivy rated it:

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Sep 21, 2008

Bibiana rated it:

I just completed reading Brisingr, and I must say that I was very impressed with the plot!

To compress all of my thoughts and the plot in to only one word, this has to be it - Unpredictable.

Certain events that happened in the book really took me by surprise and I have to applaud Christopher Paolini to even think about such a complex plot. I could hardly guess what might happen in the next few pages, and the only way for me to find out was to keep my head buried deep within More...

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Dec 06, 2011

Sam rated it:

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Oct 06, 2008

Laura rated it:

I give up. I've spent two weeks trying to get through this 700-page snoozefest and I'm still completely uninterested in what happens next. I can muster more enthusiasm for the third season of 'Rock of Love.'

To be fair, I've never been ecstatic about the Inheritance trilogy (although I think there's going to be one more book because 700 pages just wasn't long enough). Eragon was a pleasant enough, if unoriginal, story, made more impressive because of Paolini's young age. (Heck, whe More...

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Nov 11, 2008

Rebecca rated it:

Is it just me, or is this series on a serious downward spiral? Eragon was uninventive but entertaining; Eldest was a bit of slog, but pulled through in the end; Brisingr, however, just left me exhuasted and annoyed. At least half of this novel could have be edited out, and as with the previous two books, Paolini seems more interested in showing off his vocabulary (both English and invented) and in delivering lengthy, detailed battle scenes than in telling a compelling story. Oh, and....SPOILER More...

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Jan 21, 2009

Callie rated it:

I try to finish a book no matter what, but this book will be an exception. I'm 100 pages in...and nothing has happened! This book suffered from over discription about things that are unimportant to the plot or to the reader and slowed the story telling to an almost non-existent plot line. The author obviously has a love of armor and weaponry and his descriptions of these things go on for paragraphs in such an self indulgent way that he seems to be purposefully leaving the reader! A dissapoin More...

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Oct 30, 2008

Erin rated it:

It's generally a very good story. Problems arise, however, when the fact that very little of it is original becomes distracting, the excessive wordiness and verbosity of the author (in both character voice and description) becomes distracting, and the number of random side adventures and random side characters become. . . yes, distracting.

I am anxious to see how the story ends, I just hate it when I can't stop thinking about the author's prose and plot choices while I'm reading a boo More...

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Oct 27, 2008

Zachhg rated it:

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Sep 29, 2008

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Nov 09, 2008

Karin rated it:

poke me in the eye! This book is terrible! The first one was forgiven for it's rambling irrelevancies due to it's imaginative world and logical magic. This one has no excuses. First off, it's about as entertaining as watching a clock's hour hand tick. Second, approximately two things happen in the entire book that are even important! Each event can go beyond being summed up in a chapter or two. This was riddled with rambling text, inconsistencies, and fluff. A wonderful example of it's dull dron More...

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Dec 24, 2008

Aaron rated it:

Finally, this series has given me a novel that I have enjoyed every part of. I consider it the darkest of the three novels, as Eragon realizes what a dire situation he has placed himself in, and the slim chance that he might succeed in his mission to free the citizens from the tyrannical rule of King Galbatorix. This book finally brings its characters and its plot back down to Earth, and although the novel still thrives off fantasy, and now possesses a sense of reality to it.
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Mar 01, 2009

amber rated it:

Wow. This one was really bad. As he's aged, Paolini;s writing has gotten worse. It's almost 800 pages of drivel. I feel like Paolini recently studied for the GRE and he's showing off the new words he learned. It was just really bad.

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Feb 20, 2009

Leigh rated it:

I reeeeaaally hated the second book, Eldest. I mean, really hated it. But I am incapable of stopping a book (or movie) no matter how bad it is. So, I'll be reading this one, too, since it's a dang series. And forget my relief that this was supposed to be the last of the TRILOGY; I just read that the series will now be continuing after this book.

Please, please let it be better than Eldest.

UPDATE: Got it, read it, didn't HATE it. I did find myself skimming through pretty o More...

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Jan 12, 2012

Morgan rated it:

Okay okay okay. When I first read this book, I loved it. I thought it was the best in the series (my bad, cycle), and that Paolini was truly visionary.

What the hell was I on?!

All the praise I had for this book has evaporated. It was a whole lotta bor.ing. My God, could it have been drawn on any longer? On average, there was like one page of plot for every seven pages of filler. Paolini tried to trick his reader's into being excited by throwing in random-ass action More...

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Dec 01, 2008

Kassandra rated it:

This book should be called Blahsingr because all it is is 800 pages of Blah Eragon, blah Roran, blah Arya, blah Orik, blah Galbatorix (which I'm certain is a new prescription drug for indigestion), blah, blah, blah.

We all know Paolini killed his trilogy by turning it into a "cycle" but making us read through another 784 pages after his horrific second book, Eldest, was grounds for banishment to the Empire's dungeons.

The book basically had no plot, just a bunch More...

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Dec 01, 2008

Alison rated it:

Brisingr, the 3rd book to the Eragon saga was about a boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira. They are the last free dragon and dragon rider alive. Eragon’s brother who is also a dragon rider is enslaved by the evil sorcerer Galbatorix. Galbatorix is trying to take over the realm of Alagaësia, but another army, called the Varden is trying to stop that, Eragon is part of the Varden. I know it sounds boring and complicated, but trust me, it’s really good!
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Nov 19, 2008

Donna rated it:

Brisingr takes the derivative plot elements and tortured prose of the first two books, then adds a double dose of boring.

Long, descriptive passages are made even more unreadable thanks to a healthy sprinkling of fantasy names. At one point I suspected that Paolini had a polysyllabic name for every little hill or stream in the country, that thought was followed by the terrible fear that he'd feel the need to tell us each and every one.

Characters have less-than-compelling More...

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Dec 09, 2008

Adam rated it:

No offense to those of you who liked this book. I had a really, really hard time getting through this one. I thought the first book of the series was neat cause it was written by a kid, but sadly, Paolini's story telling ability hasn't grown an iota.

Why did Paolini have to make this a four book series. He easily could have taken the 35 pages of actual plot from this book and prepended it to the beginning of the next book. The pace of this book was excruciating.

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Sep 13, 2010

Rachel added it

File this under A for addiction. I read Book 1 and 2 so quickly. I wonder if anything sank in? Am I only reading to find out what happens? Or is there nothing which needed to sink in? Would there be no long-lasting engagement for anyone? Or just for particular me at this particular time?

Why do I process this series so differently from, say, Narnia? Or Harry Potter, or the Lord of the Rings - I've read all three of these series una y otra vez. All books marked as Fantasy (in our libra More...

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Oct 01, 2008

Shane rated it:

After waiting 100 years for book 3, I expected a lot more. The meat of this book could have been condensed into about 100 pages. Very little plot development occurred. There was some character development, but not enough to warrant 750 pages.

I probably wouldn't be so critical, but the video he posted stating why it took so long to get to book 3 said that he didn't feel he could do it in one book. Bad news. I bet that if you read book 1, book 2, and 3 selected chapters of book More...

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Jan 20, 2009

Lori rated it:

I put off and put off and put off reading Brisngr until I could avoid it (and the sad stares of my daughter, who along with my husband, had gotten me the book as a gift more than three months ago) no longer.

I enjoyed Eragon. It's deeper fantasy than is my wont, but I was so intrigued by the story of the author that I couldn't help myself.

Eldest was ... OK. The history of the land (and its citizens) gets deeper. There are passages in Elvish. A bit much for me.

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Dec 03, 2008

Esther rated it:

I think the story is pretty boring. And I think that Roran is a jerk.

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Dec 01, 2008

Cindy rated it:

Wow. Before anyone comments, I was a HUGE fan of the first book. Second book I thought was alright. This book sucked so bad. Between the terrible writing and the grammar and the fact that it was 800 pages of how long Paolini can babble about nothing and still keep an following.

The reason for the 4th book was this was for character development? What character development, the characters are more one sided then ever. You can almost predict what they will do before they do it because t More...

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Oct 27, 2008

Rushabh rated it:

Brisingr is the third book in what was supposed to be the Inheritance Trilogy. However, a while ago, Paolini made the "Trilogy" a "Cycle" paving the way for a 4th book. So the stories do not conclude in Brisingr, contrary to my prior expectations. Disappointment #1.

Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr are, at the end of the day, children's books. And as such, not meant to be compared to fantasy novels such as Lord of the Rings. Tolkien far outstrips Paolini in terms of his l More...

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