Well to be honest I read a lot of Fantasy/Sci Fi books, and what really annoyed me about Eragon and Eldest was that after reading them, I couldn't really remember specifics about them. Both of them started blending in with other, better books I had read, because the story is so generic and predictable. The characters are horrendously stereotypical, and the plot, though it does have a handful of odd surprises, is so linear it's just not entertaining to read. I know the series isn't done, and that I shouldn't criticize it as a whole so soon, but honestly, 3 (or is it 4) books to tell a story he's simply taken from somewhere else and added different names to the characters? If there's one good thing that came out of me reading those books, it's learning how not to write a novel.