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See, that actually sounds like a pretty interesting character

Well sure if Paolini wasn't having everyone on Eragon's side see his actions as heroic. I quite honestly think he's the most evil character in the story.

Maybe it's a relative thing. Roran's a more interesting character anyway.

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that Jaws was never your scene?

I actually liked Murtagh over Roran. Mostly because Murtagh has the same stuff as Eragon, but he earned every last bit of it. And even though he comes from the same family as Eragon, his ideals are far more realistic. He doesn't want the downfall of the "evil" empire because that would bring ruin and calamity upon its subjects (everyone who is human). Instead he wants power to reform from within, and his character embodies an unbreakable spirit. Even magically bound as he is to serve Galbatorix, he is still Murtagh through and through. Compared to him, Eragon is a child who refuses to grow up.

I'm going out on another limb and guessing you don't listen to much Queen?

Has anybody read the "A Song of Ice & Fire" series?

I always either get mocked for asking this question or answered honestly with joy. I'm not sure what to expect from you all at this point though...

About the Inheritance Cycle:
Like I said before, they were pretty much my favorite books growing up. But as I kept reading them over and over waiting for the next book in the installment to release, I came to realize how mediocre they were. I'm not saying they're bad. Hell, if I tried making books of that stature and plot I don't think I'd be able to do it. But yes, they're not that great or original.
Do NOT get me started on the movie. Let's all wish it never ever happened ever.

I still want to know how it ends. My curiosity won't allow me to get away from it.

Expect the unexpected. And the sexually themed.

Excellent...

it seems kinda weird to say the inheritance cycle were your favorite books growing up when the series isn't actually finished. Although the last book is out this november.

I read the Inheritance Cycle when I was younger, but I've come to realize it's really not that great. It's really cliched, and like others have mentioned, Eragon is regarded as a perfect hero regardless of what he does, among other problems. Whenever the last one comes out, I think I might check it out of a library at the most.

On a more positive note, I've started reading Last Chance to See, a book by Douglas Adams on endangered creatures in various places like Madagascar.

I tried reading the Lord of the Rings series when I was younger. I managed to get all the way to Return of the King before I couldn't take any more obscene amounts of description.

I'm expecting half of you to martyr me now.

Re-reading "Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson. This man's writing is godly. He paints a vivid world where storms ravage the land constantly, forcing animals and plants to adapt to survive. Grass reacts to touch and withdraws into the stone, because there is no soil. The pack animals are giant hermit crabs. And the unit of currency are glass spheres with bits of gem in them that hold the magic of the storms called stormlight (used for casting or illumination).

The characters are also just fantastic. They live and breathe on their own outside the boundaries of text. There's a former surgeon turned soldier turned slave who refuses to give in to his suicidal job, that of a bridgeman whose sole purpose is to act as an arrow holder, into a drive to protect as many of his fellow bridgemen as possible; a general of one of the ten armies bickering with each other, who have turned war into a game for gems, who thinks himself going insane as he sees visions of times past, causing him to question his sanity and rethink what human life means; a girl seeking to become a student of a renowned noblewoman so she can steal a valuable artifact, but ends up delving into the mysteries of her world to the point where she can no longer disengage from her findings; and the assassin in white who set the stories of all these characters, and that of the world itself, in motion five years ago when he killed a king and sparked a war as he seeks someone capable of killing him so he can be freed of a curse that forces him to obey whoever holds his oathstone.

I also quit the first time I tried, but after only 50 pages of irrelevant description of the hobbits. I managed to read all three books in three weeks this summer. I felt there was not enough description, or, at least, not enough where it mattered. My favorite book is the second, I felt it was the most balanced one, and it had a better pace too.

The third one has the most unsatisfying ending ever. After Samwise does all the actual work and supports Frodo while on their way to Mount Doom, they manage to destroy the Ring and are then saved by eagles, and we never know what happened to Sauron (unless I'm too dumb and didn't get it). Then Arwen, who was only mentioned three times before and was never implied to have any kind of relationship with Aragorn, marries him and everybody returns home. Saroumane is killed anticlimactically, then Frodo departs for another continent with the Elves with no explanation given, leaving Sam behind to grow potatoes until he's 96, then he too is allowed to go, and that's it.

So yeah, I read it because it was a classic, but I don't think I'd read it again for fun.