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I read those when I was younger as well. I came away not a huge fan of the series because of the (in my opinion) poor writing and huge plot holes.

Why didn't he just bless the kid with "May you be a killer of Galbatorix, and may no one else die in the process."

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The extremely derivative plot didn't help either. I actually came away with an active dislike of the series.

But, I like the connection to semantic errors.

I won't say I was a huge fan of the series either. I only ever read the first two books, and even then have only vague memories of them. I had to look stuff up online to fill in the details of my parent comment. But it had a pretty interesting way of treating magic, and that's one thing that was memorable.

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