Uzique wrote:
children's literature is often written very well, though, by people that know what they're doing and are excellent at condensing 'adult' ideas into child-like nibbles. there's a difference between good children's literature and literature just written by a clueless kid; this series painfully falls into the latter. it was all marketing hype and pr, as the book industry loves the idea of a 'child prodigy'... it sells so well! sadly, the books are wank, and now he's an adult and the series is years old, it doesn't hold up as self-standing fiction. sorry. read something else.
I think Eragon was absolutely overhyped, but it was a great effort for a kid author. It didn't really tempt me to read any of the successive books, so I'm not going to judge those.
The movie was also worse than Dungeons & Dragons and Mortal Kombat put together.
Just because he's older now doesn't mean that his older work should change. His newer stuff should be better, but I just hear it simply isn't.