HB- picked up a pretty well loved copy for a quarter... How could I pass it up?? Was thinking of starting a ring and did a forum search.. saw Jaguar had a stalled ring with this one... Reserved now for that ring. PokPok lives near me and I will hand deliver it to her... she will then pass it to next(well, actually previous)person on RING list (Oregon). here is link to the FIRST ORIGINAL RING -- set up by JAGUAR

Eragon~ stalled RING
previous order
1. Llyr (New Brunswick) read/sent
2. StardustNF (Newfoundland) read/sent
3. Nelka35 (New York) read/sent
4. SpaceyStacey (New Jersey) <-- ended here*(stalled) enter replacement copy...
5. LshsMom<--Here =)
6. PokPok(California)
7. KarenDawn(Texas)
8. Cytronella (Texas)
9. RSlicer (Kansas)
10. WarEagle78(Alabama)
11. WickedWordz (Florida)
12. LadyOfLight (South Carolina)
13. back to Jaguar(New Brunswick)

I'm going to mark this as travelling and let Jaguar journal it... then it will go in reality to PokPok.

I received this today. It will go next to LshsMom, and then go through the rest of the list. Thanks busybooklvr for resurrecting this ring.

I finished this today. My apologies for the delay, but I had some life issues that were pulling me away from reading for a bit. I started this book on a cross country airplane flight, and it was perfect for that.

Ultimately, I give this book a "medium" review. I found it interesting, and kept continuing to read it, but it never truly hooked me. Also, I found way too many parallels with Lord of the Rings and the Anne McCaffrey series. The relationship between Saphira and Eragon is too similar to the Pern books, especially Jaxom/Ruth (even with the male rider, female dragon) and names, descriptions, etc., reminded me of LOTR. I found it very distracting. I ultimately felt there just wasn't much spark or originality to it. I applaud the author, in that he was 15 when the book was originally published in its first form. That is a very fine acheivement for him. However, I don't quite get what all the fuss is over it. It's not bad...I just don't find it to be good or revolutionary in any way. I did like Brom very much, and his relationship with Eragon is intersting. I would like to know more about him. I feel much of his story is still to be revealed.

Also, this book, like LOTR, isn't truly completed. It leaves you in the middle of the story. I don't like that--yet I'm not sure if I have enough interest to keep reading the other books when they come out. Maybe via bookring or paperback, but I wouldn't pay full dollar for it.

BBL, thanks for picking up this book and reviving the ring. I will be passing it on asap. It's good to have the ring moving again.

RELEASE NOTES:

will be sending to lshsmom, sometime this week.

Received this a couple of weeks ago.....plan to start it this weekend at the beach after completing a library copy of 1776