Eragon

I read Eragon last summer and thought it was okay. Some of the plot twist were very obvious but it was what you expect from a new and inexperience author. If you haven't read it before, here is a review of it from the School Library Journal:

"Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape." --Patty Campbell

How did you think it compared to the movie? Was there anything you especially liked or hated?

Mrs. Keuhn