Eragon is a terrible book, I'm sorry. Paolini should finish the third book and give up writing. Why? Well I'm not going to go into the obvious plagierism (and some pages of the book are nearly word for word from other books), or that his writing is too cliche'. A writer can use alot of cliche' and still pull off a good read.
My arguments are on his flat characters, their complete lack of personality, and Eragon's obvious Mary Sue-ism. You expect me to believe a 15 year old boy can learn how to be a master swordsman in the time span of a few months? He's supposed to have this great bond with Saphira but treats her like crap. He's not a hero, he's an ***. Every page I've read it felt like Paolini was insterting himself into the character and everything about Eragon has to be perfect. Everyone loves him in spite of him being a pompous ***, and his interactions with the characters are wholely unrealistic.
Paolini himself is a terrible writer. Examples could be found in such turns of phrase as "Sorry" Brom apologized or how he describes Arya's hair as black twice in the same paragraph. The story it's self is loosely structured and barely stays together. I loathe the characters. All of them. The only one I feel bad for is the guy on the toll bridge because he's probalby thinking ******** I've been in this scene before, and it was better written![/i]
Really I could go on, but I'm afraid I'd start foaming at the mouth.