Haven't seen the movie or read the books either, but I know that the excerpts I have read (from anti-shurtugal or provided by other posters on this forum) went completely against all rules of how one should write I have learnt - poor word choice, poor sentence structure, too many adjectives, etc. Now, some people claim there is no such thing as objectively good or bad writing (I disagree, but that's completely irrelevant here), so I will add the disclaimer that Eragon being terribly written it is just my personal opinion, and no more - but since my decision concerning what I read and what I don't is based solely on my opinion, that's perfectly enough. So there - from what I have seen of the Inheritance trilogy, I consider it to be amongst the most horrible writing I have ever had the displeasure to read, so I will not bother wasting my time reading the whole thing.