Well I did enjoy Bridget Jones (but few of the imitations), and if you refer to post 11, I am hardly a fan of Tolkien copies. I picked up Eragon fully prepared to condemn it as a travesty.
As I say I enjoyed it. Clearly it is tolkien inspired but it is more "homage" than rip off to my mind. It is not set in Middle Earth but is not entirely incompatible.. a bit like Lyra's Oxford. I haven't read a lot of fantasy - I am fascinated by Middle Earth, it's culture and languages and so other fantasy books I look at seem very superficial (NB I exclude Discworld ). Maybe if I read more fantasy I would find Eragon more derivative but the story did not seem to be from Tolkien even if aspects of the setting could be. I don't think it is a "Great Book" but I did find it a good read and will be interested to see what Paolini produces when he has got out a bit more...
