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The Inheritance Cycle Series
This series has played a huge role in my life. I can still remember the day I first read Eragon back in 2006 and loved the series ever since then. I have never been a big fan of reading as a kid but once I read Eragon my life changed and I can’t stop myself from reading now every chance I get. From time to time I just loss myself in a book and can’t put it down until I have finish reading the entire thing. Whenever I read Eragon I find that Eragon and I have similar characteristics and personality. Thank you Christopher for writing the inheritance cycle series it has changed my life. I have learned to “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.” I would really like
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