MandyThe Evil in Eragon
August 23rd 2007 04:50
Eragon is a story about a boy and his dragon. Been done before, right? But surely, such a best-selling book (in 2005 after 2 years in print, 2.5 million copies had been sold and Eragon continued to top The New York Times bestseller list for children's books) must be dazzling in its originality, characterisation, writing style and pure story-telling?
You'd be forgiven for thinking it was so. But Eragon is nothing but a pulp novel, easily accessible and easily forgotten. There are few redeeming qualities about the book- it's poorly written with horrible grammar, sentence structure and a style that betrays the author's love of his thesaurus. It's derivative, using almost word for word the plot of the original Star Wars movie and plonking it down on the fringes of Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The characters are dull and incredibly predictable, none more so than the titular hero of the story, simple farmboy (snort) Eragon.
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You'd be forgiven for thinking it was so. But Eragon is nothing but a pulp novel, easily accessible and easily forgotten. There are few redeeming qualities about the book- it's poorly written with horrible grammar, sentence structure and a style that betrays the author's love of his thesaurus. It's derivative, using almost word for word the plot of the original Star Wars movie and plonking it down on the fringes of Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The characters are dull and incredibly predictable, none more so than the titular hero of the story, simple farmboy (snort) Eragon.
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