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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780375857041 ISBN: 0375857044 Label: Knopf Books for Young Readers Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1216 Publication Date: July 08, 2008 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: July 08, 2008 Studio: Knopf Books for Young Readers Editorial Review: Product Description: Enjoy every word of the first two books in the Inheritance cycle in one convenient volume. Featuring brand new cover art and never before seen original manuscript pages! Average Rating:
 Rating:  - I LIKE THEM ALL, INCLUDING AUDIO BOOKSMy goodness, such passionate reviews. Let me add my own passion to the mix. I am an OLD dude, and I have been reading since I was a little tad. I read everything I can get my hands on, or, if I have nothing, even the back of cereal boxes will do. I have to read! I LOVE this series! I have been reading fantasy, and science fiction, Cowboys and Indians, adventure of all kinds, for all of my life. One must remember that Christopher was 16-17 years old when he began this series, so his imagination ... Read More Rating: - Imagine the PossibilitiesI know a lot of people are criticizing these books because they do remind you of other books you've read or movies you've seen, but that is what I love about them. It's like putting the best plots you've ever read or seen into a mixer to see what you can make out of it. The end result is bound to be something fantastic when all the ingredients were fantastic to begin with. Besides Paolini isn't that old so we get the best of both worlds. We get an author who is still young enough to remember what it's like ... Read More Rating:  - A real ReviewOk let me say first that i do not like that they released an omnibus book with the first 2 when the third book is coming out in a month to finish the trilogy. I That is where my disappointment ends. The reviews below compare this book to random fantasy stories that have little to do with this books plot other then that they share a genre (fantasy). In some ways EVERY fantasy book is a cliche or can be said to have taken things form this book or that book. Just because in the story there are "dragonriders" ... Read More Rating:  - A waste of time, money and treesI am truly perplexed as to how such a book can be a best seller, even among children's books... Mix the Belgariad (the peasant boy with a mysterious background and a blue circle on his hand) with the Dragonriders of Pern (defenders of civilisation with a psychic connection to flying dragons), add a few elves and just about every single plot cliché you can find in the fantasy genre (impossible love with an elf,et cetera, et cetera and yes, it will probably be "revealed" that Eragon is the son of Big Bad Guy ... Read More Rating:  - Eldest story in the bookMix together equal parts "Star Wars" and J.R.R. Tolkien, then add a generous helping of Anne McCaffrey's dragon-riders and a few random shreds of Garth Nix. Obviously originality is not Christopher Paolini's strong suit, since the omnibus of "Eragon" and "Eldest" is brimming over with fantasy cliches. But the biggest weakness of Paolini's two books is not his stilted dialogue or numerous cliches, or even the slow-moving pompous slog of "Eldest's" endless elf training -- it's his cardboard cutout of a self-insert ... Read More |
