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Brisingr (Inheritance #3)

by Christopher Paolini

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Després de la colossal i temible batalla de les Planes Ardents que va enfrontar per primera vegada les forces rebels dels vardens i les de Galbatorix, Eragon i Saphira s'adonen que encara no són prou forts: les seves vides han estat a les mans d'un nou i inesperat enemic que els ha perdonat a l'...more

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Dec 20, 2010

Amelia rated it

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Shelves: are-you-kidding-me-shite, fantasy, ya, dragons

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 ...moreWhat 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 words he dragged screaming from his thesaurus .

I made the further mistake of flipping the page after I'd finished only to find a little directory of the Elvish, Dwarvish, Urgulish and whatever-else-ish words he'd made up and how to pronounce them. Like I bloody well care how to pronounce them! I'm not going to be using them verbally!! Hello, Chris, they're not real!

Another flip of the page and, GOOD GOD! It's a letter to his "fans". This "letter" was every bit what I had come to expect from his "newsletter". Yes, I confess, I have been receiving it for nearly two years now. I have learned to delete without reading however. After reading Eragon and most of Eldest I signed up for it to find out when Brisingr was coming out. I soon became bored and disgusted with his self congratulatory blathering tinged with delusions of grandeur. Face it Paolini, you got lucky with the first book, the second wasn't bad (says me, plenty of folks don't agree), the movie was shite and the video game you were so excited about was even more shite! Brisingr...pfft!

Lastly, what the hell is the deal with the talking in Elvish? Do you suppose Tolkien walked around talking in his made up languages? I very much doubt it, he would have been laughed out of Oxfordshire! I get you're trying to cultivate this convention attending fan base, but dude, you're trying way too hard! Bit of advice, you're going to have a hard time keeping a girlfriend that isn't just interested in your money if you inundate her with bad romantic poetry written in Elvish...

All things considered, I was totally disappointed.(less)

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Oct 05, 2008

Alena rated it

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Recommends it for: someone needing kindling to start a fire

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

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Recommends it for: fantasy lovers, Star Wars fans, Lord of the Rings fans, Tamora Pierce fans

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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Mar 10, 2009

Ceridwen rated it

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Recommends it for: your younger brother

Recommended to Ceridwen by: Eragon was fun. Seriously.

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, abandoned, dragons, my-eyes-the-goggles-do-nothing

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'...moreSo, 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's like your younger brother stole all your best fantasy fiction, and instead of learning how to masturbate most effectively like most 15 year olds, wrote this energetic, stupid, fun story. And when I say it's like that, what I mean is that's exactly what happened.

From the back flap: "Christopher Paolini...graduated from high school at fifteen after being homeschooled all his life." Really, Chris? Oh save me Jebus, there are too many jokes. I can't even decide. Anyway, enough ad hominem attacks. Let's move on to attacking his work.

At 17, Paolini writes the silly, stupid, but charmingly sincere Eragon. Now, in his third book, Paolini is maturing as a writer, and it's not a pretty sight. The energy of Eragon has been replaced by endless, leaden descriptions of landscape. He's replaced an exuberant, infectious passion for writers like Tolkien with an adolescent notion that mistakes ponderousness for insight. Paolini clearly wants his main characters to change and grow through the book, but lacks both the skill and self-awareness to do this. What's left is a bunch of whingeing over how bad responsibility sucks and how mean authority figures are. And how, Chris. What it is, my brother.

In one of the essays in How to Travel with a Salmon, Umberto Eco proposes a novel way to identity pornography. The identification of pornography is one of those legally relevant needs, and usually comes down to "I know it when I see it." Eco dismisses the usual "intention" arguments, pointing out instead that most pornography is light on plot. Pornography then shows movement or travel from one place or another wholly in real time. The scene opens, the gardener drives to the rich woman's house, he rings the doorbell: all of this occurs without a cut. The real time movement both pads the running time and allows for a suitable refractory period. More than money shots and girls gone wild, real-time movement constitutes the true hallmark of pornography.

It is in this way that Brisingr is pornographic. (No, sorry, not in that way - in fact, I could muster up a long diatribe about the faux heraldic chastity that typified everyone's sexual life in these kind of books, but that's almost a cliche, so I'll refrain.) I believe it to be the first book to be written almost entirely in real time. When Eragon runs through the desert for two days, it takes two days of thirst and deprivation for the reader to get through it. No doubt when I defend my thesis on post-modernism and the fractured narrative at Homeschool University, my readers will lob questions about Brisingr at me, pointing out how deeply experimental a traditional narrative can be.
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Sep 30, 2008

Jedidiah rated it

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

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Oct 02, 2008

Min rated it

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Shelves: fantasy, fiction, ya

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 07, 2011

Swankivy rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. An extremely long-winded "full" review by me for this book is on my site here.

Everyone's been asking me to review the third book in this series, so here I go. In case you didn't notice, it took me over a thousand days to force myself to tackle it, but I decided my Labor Day weekend needed to be ruined by something.

My review is pretty much a ramble about everything I disliked about this book, but I'll try to keep it relatively short.

The author still has basic storyt...more

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Sep 21, 2008

Bibiana rated it

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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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Oct 02, 2008

Sam Label rated it

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Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I've kept up with the Inheritance "cycle" (now that the author has decided a trilogy isn't cutting it) out of a desire to see a story I've invested in to its conclusion. I hesitate to call it an obligatory read on my part, but it's more because I'm invested in the story now than I am eager to read more by Paolini. His writing has struck me as amateur, if refreshing for its brevity at first, since the beginning.

To keep this as spoiler-free as I can, my biggest issue with Brisi...moreI've kept up with the Inheritance "cycle" (now that the author has decided a trilogy isn't cutting it) out of a desire to see a story I've invested in to its conclusion. I hesitate to call it an obligatory read on my part, but it's more because I'm invested in the story now than I am eager to read more by Paolini. His writing has struck me as amateur, if refreshing for its brevity at first, since the beginning.

To keep this as spoiler-free as I can, my biggest issue with Brisingr--and with the entire series, truthfully--is what I can only call the easiness factor. The conflicts and trials of the story often end up more or less resolved in the same chapter in which they are brought up. And the few extended tribulations of Eragon or the other characters, once they are finally put to bed, are handled in a disturbingly deus ex machina fashion. At the end of nearly every chapter I was struck with this thought: "He really could have saved himself the trouble of writing twenty pages and just not had this happen in the first place."

Okay, I can't really do this without an example, so there are spoilers in this paragraph. In one sequence, Roran, Eragon's cousin, is sent on a raid on an enemy unit under a captain he dislikes. At first the man is competent, according to the narrative, but (it seems to me) since the author is invested in making the man difficult to like, he ends up being shown as massively incompetent. It just wouldn't do if the man were good at his job but a jerk, would it? That would make Roran look stupid. Thanks to the captain's incompetence, the company ends up in a dire situation and only Roran's bravery and, yes, insubordination win the day. Roran is therefore punished for insubordination by being lashed in front of the army. He is told beforehand by Nasuada that he cannot seek a mage to heal his wounds, because he must suffer them naturally in order to learn a lesson. This is all well and good--he was a hero, but he still did something that required punishment. Only it doesn't end there. Nasuada decides that she needs Roran (meta translation: Roran is supposed to be a hero in the story and has to be in the thick of action to continue to be important) and has put him at the head of a new company of men. Therefore she brings in magic users to heal his wounds so he can be in fighting shape. Meanwhile, the man he disobeyed in the first place--to the point that a lashing was deemed necessary for not obeying him--has been axed from his position. So at the end? Roran is lashed, yes, but suffers no lasting damage and is promoted, while the man he disobeyed is punished. Why did we go through this? What was the point? By the end, it felt like I was having Roran's "hardship" thrust upon me because it seemed like he should have some, only for it to be immediately removed because it was inconvenient to the ongoing story. It was artificial.

Beyond these problems, the story is as engaging as it was in the first two books, if a little cliché. My position on the story has not changed, and I will likely pick up the fourth, and supposedly final, book when it is released. Ultimately, Paolini has a good overall framework for an intriguing fantasy story, but his own writing and the lack of heart in the details leaves it flat.(less)

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Oct 06, 2008

Laura rated it

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Shelves: couldn-t-finish

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

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Shelves: ya, fantasy, middle-school, series, action-adventure

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

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Shelves: tried-to-read

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

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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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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Zach Highley-Gergel
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Online Book Review Brisingr
Fire; is the definition of the title of the novel in the ancient language. Brisingr is the title and was written by Christopher Paolini. He has written Eragon(the first book of the Inheritance cycle), Eldest(the second), and Brisingr(the third). The protagonist is Eragon who and with his dragon Saphira. The ant...moreZach Highley-Gergel
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Fire; is the definition of the title of the novel in the ancient language. Brisingr is the title and was written by Christopher Paolini. He has written Eragon(the first book of the Inheritance cycle), Eldest(the second), and Brisingr(the third). The protagonist is Eragon who and with his dragon Saphira. The antagonist of the novel is the forces of Galbatorix and Galbatorix himself. Eragon’s goal with the help of the Varden, which is the rebel forces against Galbatorix, is to free Alagaesia from his tyranny. Alagaesia is the world which Eragon lives in.
The novel had many interesting things; one of the things being the ancient language. The ancient language is a language that can be used as a regular talk or a way to summon magic. Also the dragons talk through their minds like many magicians can. Eragon is trying to kill Galbatorix, but before he can get to him he needs to become a skilled magician and fighter. He learns how to be this through Oromis and Glaedr. Oromis is a secret rider hidden from Galbatorix, and Glaedr is his dragon. The novel is exiting and vivid.
The novel was good other than one boring bit. When Eragon is trying to unite the remaining people of Alaesia who aren’t under Galbatorix’s control he goes to the dwarves to try and speed up an election. This is an election between the dwarves’ leaders. It is quite boring because it is talking about politics and many dwarfish things that are not explained. Also there is quite a bit of un-needed talking.
Despite its little weakness, the novel is an enjoyable piece to read. Brisingr is filled with action around every corner. It also contains some humor, and the ancient language is quite interesting to understand. There are also many hidden surprises with the book like: who Eragon’s father and brother is, and what happens at his cousins wedding. If you like an exciting, fast paced, and magical story you will like Brisingr.

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Sep 29, 2008

Caitlín (Ink Mage) rated it

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Shelves: draconic

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Christopher Paolini's writing seemed (to me) to have somehow changed in a way that made it harder for me to fall into than Eragon and Eldest were.
As a whole I liked the story, but there wasn't the excitement of I-have-to-see-what-happens-next like before. Especially when Eragon is in Tronjheim I was just wishing that he would freaking LEAVE already! That part seemed particularly drawn-out and boring to me.
A few other issues I had with it:
I found some characters *cough*Arya*coug...more

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Nov 09, 2008

Karin rated it

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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

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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

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Shelves: ya

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 Moore rated it

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Shelves: novels

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 F rated it

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Recommends it for: fantasy lovers

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, series, adventure, 2000s, dragons, own, re-read, read-2012, fiction, magic, the-fairfolk, wizardry-and-sorcery

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

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Recommends it for: people who come up with names for prescription drugs,collectors of little glass dragons

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

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Recommends it for: people who like to read BIG books

Shelves: 7th-grade-ir-books-sadelle

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

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Shelves: fantasy, library, young-adult, –read-in-2008

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.

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Dec 09, 2008

Adam rated it

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Shelves: fantasy, ya

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.

Does ther...more

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Jul 26, 2008

Rachel added it · review of another edition

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

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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

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Shelves: 2009january

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

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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

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Shelves: teen-fantasy

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

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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...moreBrisingr 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 language, both English and the various invented tongues. Paolini's invented languages sound rather like German or some combination of Northern and Eastern European languages, far less "outlandish" than they should be. The dwarfish that he invented is interesting though and not quite like elfish (which is what my former reference was about).

However, if my only points of dissatisfaction where 1) that it didn't end the story and 2) the invented languages were, well, not quite fake enough, it would probably mean that the book was reasonably good and not deserving of a 1/5 rating.

I think this book is arguably the weakest of the 3 so far. Eragon was powerful because he was setting up the stage, exploring the world, but threw in some large fights and chases and introducing magic and such.
Eldest was interesting because it introduced new worlds (elves) and new, powerful charachters (Oromis, Glaedr, Nassuada). It moved the story forward and culminated in a big battle (a bit reminiscent of the Two Towers in LOTR where the second book ends with the Battle of Helms Deep). Still good though.
The third (and current) book, introduces only one new charachter, and mostly meanders the story all over the place. It could have been a lot shorter - I have no problems with long winded descriptions of things, but pages and pages about walking and flying with little consequence (waaay too much like World of Warcraft) just drag the middle part of the book to no end. The final "climax" is rather predictable and expected and just leaves you with "meh".

Overall, not a great book, I will probably read the 4th to just finish off the series, but I'm no longer recommending this to any younger cousins or friends' kids. Its not worth the trudge and the return on investment for going through 1400+ pages (all 3 books) is lower than expected.(less)

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Christopher Paolini was raised in the Paradise Valley, Montana area. His family members include his parents, Kenneth Paolini and Talita Hodgkinson, and his sister, Angela Paolini. Home schooled for the duration of his education, Paolini graduated from high school at the age of 15 through a set of accredited correspondence courses from American School of Correspondence in Lansing, Illinois. Followi...more

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