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	title:	Eragon (Inheritance Cycle)
	author:	Christopher Paolini
	format:	Audio CD
	publisher:	Random House Children's Books
	released:	August 4, 2005
	isbn:	1856868826
	isbn-13:	9781856868822

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Customer Reviews
Not as good as the book I'm afraid - Rated Whilst Kerry Shale does get some of the voices right - by which I mean of course as I imagine them to be - too many others sound like pantomime characters - heavily accented and exaggerated. However, this is not the biggest failing of the audio CD. What is not obvious is that this is an abridged version of the book. As such a lot of chapters have been left out including some of the most exciting ones. If you have not read the book you are being shortchanged, if you have you are in for disappointment. A shame all in all. Brian Birch poor version of a great book - Rated I love the book Eragon, I think its an absolutely fabulous story, and I highly recommend the book and its sequel, Eldest to anyone, but I have to say that the narration of this audio book is not very good at all. Despite wining an award for other work that he has done, in this recording, Kerry Shale seems not to be able distinguish voices and characters in any other way than by giving them strongly defined accents, which ends up with Roran sounding like a hillbilly, Ajihad and his daughter Nasuada have some sort of cross between Indian and welsh, and many of the other characters have charicatured exaggerated accents that I find spoil a great story. I also think that too much of the Saphira/Eragon interaction has been edited, reducing Saphira's influence and her presence in the book, as well as the bond between Saphira and Eragon, although this maybe because in an attempt to show the telepathic communication between Saphira and Eragon, the narrator has made Saphira's voice too ethereal and washed out most of the time, so she loses a lot of her humour and sharp-wittedness. I don't like giving a bad review to Eragon, but as I said, this is not a criticism of the book or the story, but of this audio version and Kerry Shale's narration of it. Wow! - Rated As soon as the story starts, and Eragon finds a blue stone in the forest, you are sucked into the book, feeling all of Eragon's feelings through the passionate words that Christopher Paolini uses. As the story continues, every little bit of the story is explained, and you keep thinking, 'oh right! I should have thought of that!' I don't know where Christopher Paolini got all his ideas from, but they are excellant!

Customer Reviews

Not as good as the book I'm afraid - Rated 3/5
Whilst Kerry Shale does get some of the voices right - by which I mean of course as I imagine them to be - too many others sound like pantomime characters - heavily accented and exaggerated. However, this is not the biggest failing of the audio CD. What is not obvious is that this is an abridged version of the book. As such a lot of chapters have been left out including some of the most exciting ones. If you have not read the book you are being shortchanged, if you have you are in for disappointment. A shame all in all. Brian Birch

poor version of a great book - Rated 2/5
I love the book Eragon, I think its an absolutely fabulous story, and I highly recommend the book and its sequel, Eldest to anyone, but I have to say that the narration of this audio book is not very good at all. Despite wining an award for other work that he has done, in this recording, Kerry Shale seems not to be able distinguish voices and characters in any other way than by giving them strongly defined accents, which ends up with Roran sounding like a hillbilly, Ajihad and his daughter Nasuada have some sort of cross between Indian and welsh, and many of the other characters have charicatured exaggerated accents that I find spoil a great story. I also think that too much of the Saphira/Eragon interaction has been edited, reducing Saphira's influence and her presence in the book, as well as the bond between Saphira and Eragon, although this maybe because in an attempt to show the telepathic communication between Saphira and Eragon, the narrator has made Saphira's voice too ethereal and washed out most of the time, so she loses a lot of her humour and sharp-wittedness. I don't like giving a bad review to Eragon, but as I said, this is not a criticism of the book or the story, but of this audio version and Kerry Shale's narration of it.

Wow! - Rated 5/5
As soon as the story starts, and Eragon finds a blue stone in the forest, you are sucked into the book, feeling all of Eragon's feelings through the passionate words that Christopher Paolini uses. As the story continues, every little bit of the story is explained, and you keep thinking, 'oh right! I should have thought of that!' I don't know where Christopher Paolini got all his ideas from, but they are excellant!