A book beyond imaginations - Eragon series

It has been a month since I read the book Eragon by chance but I am still under the spell of Christopher Paolini's enchanting magic cast through his 2 books. I can hardly wait for Brisingr to be released now. So, what is it about this book that has made countless like myself mad about it? Firstly,I would say it is the setting- dragons, riders, elves, drawfs, middle earth land types, sorcerers and the list goes on. On the first read one may find it a stereotypical Lord of the Rings copy but it is definitely not so. The Next beautiful aspect of this book is the writing. The words take the readers right into mystical dragon worlds till they would argue its authencity against every logical minded person dismissing the idea as childish and frivolous. For someone who is addicted to the fantasy world where nothing is impossible, I was so immersed in the story that I sat up debating with some of my irritatingly logical and sensible friends on how the concept is real, more real than their idea of real worlds. The characters especially the protagonist has more of flaws which makes it more realistic and interesting. I loved the parts where Eragon struggles with his futile attempts to master sword fighting and the lives of the ant explained by his mentor. We can discover a lot more than fiction if we read carefully through the lines and the language used to describe simple settings like a night sky is just brilliant. Moreover this sort of mythical stories invokes the hidden sense of imagination and absurd in all alike, helps us visualise and appreciate impossible things in a perfectly logical way. We develop the bent of mind to explore the sleeping Neverlands within us and what more than a beautiful story to cheer us in this mundane world of numbers and logic?

ps: please do not see the movie that is made out of this priceless piece of art. It not only rips the life of the book but also successfully shatters the wondrous fascination and destroys the beauty of the characters. It is absolutely a curse on the theme of magic.