Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California and has lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana. He published his first novel, Eragon, in 2003 at the age of nineteen, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. His Inheritance Cycle—Eragon and its three sequels—have sold nearly 40 million copies worldwide. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars was his first adult novel.
فوقالعاده زیبا بود. چیزی که برای من دوست داشتنی بوده در این دو کتاب از سری ِ اینهریتنس، پر از حسهای واقعی بودنشون بوده. علاوه بر این که دنیا خوبه، خیلی قوی و عجیب نیست ولی دنیای خوبیه برای وقوع یک فانتزی داستان خوبه و شخصیتها واقعی ان. میشه فهمیدشون. عجیب و غریب نیستن. تحت تاثیر احساساتشون کارهای اشتباهی میکنن و قهرمان داستان خرابیهایی به بار میآره. قهرمان داستان هنوز جای یاد گرفتن داره و کارش با شانس آوردن عجیب و غریب پیش نمیره!
+ یکیشدنهای اراگون با طبیعت برای من خیلی دوست داشتنی بودن. جوری یگانه میشد با اطرافش که میتونست هایکو بگه واقعا :)) و این خیلی خیلی خوب بود. خیلی زیبا بود.
After reading this in my teenage years I wanted to do a re-read and chose the audio version with Gerard Doyle. After getting used to the narrators voices and speed I quite enjoyed the reading of "Eldest".
"Eldest" is the second book of Eragon's journey which brings him to meet the different peoples of Alagaesia. Re-reading it from an adult point of view than all those years ago made me realize how annoying and childish Eragon is most of the time. He's supposed to be quite mature for his 16 years of age and when I was his age I quite agreed with that, now I simply cannot shake my head enough at most of his decisions and actions. This made diving back into the story quite difficult. Furthermore I had forgotten that Roran also gets a few chapters in this book and I remember not liking those before and nothing really changed about that.
The most agonizing plot still lies within the Blood-Oath Celebration. I am still waiting for the day that authors will realize the potential of letting a hero keep their disabilities and be heroic with them: how much greater would the message be to teenagers out there? Everything Eragon struggled with is suddenly working out easily after he has been magically transformed into something close to an elf. I find it so much more appealing if people learn and achieve things. That does not mean that I dislike magic in general - it's actually one of my favourite parts of fantasy literature - but there should be boundaries: magic shouldn't be able to just make everything possible - that's boring and not very inspiring.
The highlight of the book remains Arya and the insight we get into the elves' and dwarves' lives. Arya is one of my favourite characters in literature and I wish Paolini had given us a chapter from her point of view and therefore a glance into her head.
"Eldest" does not really deserve more than 3 stars but considering Gerad Doyle's great narrating, the fantastic character of Arya and last but not least the nostalgic feelings the book still generates, I am giving it 4 stars for old times sake.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
wow. really great book.i love how the book is in such good detail. i want to know if he will get a new sword. it reminds me of people who have really bad luck. what surprised me was he didnt get to kill the king in the book.Eragon became a dragon rider in this book. this should be a really great book if it ended like now.