I've read the first two eragon books and I've got the third coming in the mail at the end of this year. The first was pretty good, I mean it was just your basic "fantasy book", but if the guys works on his writing he could be a good writer one day. The second book was terrible. Borning, had a lengthy start and didn't really get into the action until the last 3 chapters - these were pretty good actually. I was willing to give it the benefit of a doubt, second books in series aren't always that good anyway and so I bought the last book. (fingers crossed for something good)