ELDEST: Inheritance Book Two [Import] [Paperback]

Christopher Paolini (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: Corgi Books (September 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552552119
• ISBN-13: 978-0552552110
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.7 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,605 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,784,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher Paolini was born on November 17, 1983 in Southern California. He has lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana with his parents and younger sister, Angela. As a child, he often wrote short stories and poems, made frequent trips to the library, and read widely. The idea of Eragon began as the daydreams of a teen. Christopher's love for the magic of stories led him to craft a novel that he would enjoy reading. The project began as a hobby, a personal challenge; he never intended it to be published. All the characters in Eragon are from Christopher's imagination except Angela the herbalist, who is loosely based on his sister. Christopher was fifteen when he wrote the first draft of Eragon. He took a second year to revise the book and then gave it to his parents to read. The family decided to self-publish the book and spent a third year preparing the manuscript for publication: copyediting, proofreading, designing a cover, typesetting the manuscript, and creating marketing materials. During this time Christopher drew the map for Eragon, as well as the dragon eye for the book cover (that now appears inside the Knopf hardcover edition). The manuscript was sent to press and the first books arrived in November 2001. The Paolini family spent the next year promoting the book at libraries, bookstores, and schools in 2002 and early 2003. In summer 2002, author Carl Hiaasen, whose stepson read a copy of the self-published book while on vacation in Montana, brought Eragon to the attention of his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, which is part of Random House. Knopf published Eragon in August 2003. Eldest, which continues the adventures of Eragon and the dragon Saphira was published in August 2005, and in December 2006, Fox 2000 released their movie adaptation of Eragon in theaters around the world.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hated it!, September 13, 2005

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A.G. "A+M Aggie" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)

I read some of the reviews of Eldest and keep shaking my head......shaking my head. People not only disliked this book......they hated it as much as I did. AND anyone saying people hated it because its a Tolkien ripoff ain't paying attention. People hated it on account of it sucks. Paolini would take 8 pages to say a character passed wind. I won't be reading the next one!

41 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars For God's sake, LISTEN TO US, PAOLINI!, October 3, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)

In an interview, Paolini said that he didn't listen to his reviewers and BOY does it show. Eldest has all the flaws of Eragon (derivative plot, flat characters, predictability, etc.) as well as all the flaws anticipated for the sequel (derivative of Empire Strikes Back). I know that these criticisms are almost as cliched as Inheritence itself, but these flaws are so obvious that they bear repeating.

And rather than improving, Eldest has shown ANOTHER weakness in Paolini's writing. It's the same problem I've had with The Amber Spyglass and the later Terry Goodkind books. It's so preachy, probably in an attempt to sound mature. A good, mature writer would introduce his beliefs subtly and let the story teach his philosophy. Paolini hits us over the head with his beliefs in long, blocky monologues. No subtlety at all.

I bought this book because of the possibility that CP would improve. I'm ready to give up hope.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Haven't I read this somewhere before? Or is it just me?, June 4, 2006

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Summer Paulus "FL" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) (Hardcover)

I have read many books, and just about all of them have a great story line, great characters, and have a little "new" in them I never read before. With Eragon I liked, but Eldest falls sort of anything I liked for Eragon. And Eragon doesn't come close to any of the other novels I read such as: Elizabeth Haydon, J.R.R.Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, Kristen Britain, C. J. Cherryh, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, and Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman. I feel that all of these were shoved together to try to make an epic fantasy novel of dragonrider's. By the 20th page I immediately dropped the book in disgusts. This all seems so familar to me, and so boring. Of course, it's could be just me. But maybe Ill try it again when I have nothing else better to read. [I would give this review 0 stars, but it wouldn't let me]