To continue the off-topic Eragon discussion...
I got the first two books for my 10th birthday and thought they were the greatest thing ever. I like the third one fairly well, thought of course as more and more viewpoints were added, some of them were bound to be far less interesting than others. I thought the whole "the elves are all atheists and there's theological controversy between them and the dwarves about how coral is alive and also a rock" to be pretty hilarious.
I read the fourth book, but it felt different than the other three. In particular the final battle was soooooooo anticlimactic and botched, it was astonishing. Also, things got kind of weird with intimations of nuclear fallout on Vroengard, and then yay dragon sex! And then having the prophecy of Eragon leaving at the end seemed like such a shoe-in. There was basically no reason for it aside from what Paolini had tied himself to earlier. And then King Orrin suddenly becoming this colossal dick of an alcoholic almost out of nowhere was also just weird. There were some good parts too though. Murtaugh and Nasuada's relationship, the cache of stuff on the island. Really though, after three books of hype about Galbatorix and how powerful he was, I didn't like how what we saw of him through Nasuada's torture scenes and whatnot...it just didn't jive with my expectations at all. It was almost like no real character could actually live up to the reputation he had. I could say a lot more, as I amused myself for hours reading the pages and pages of hilarious one star reviews on Amazon for the last book after I had finished it. And ended up embarrassing myself in the library because I couldn't help but laugh out loud at some of them.
On-topic. I've started the Wheel of Time series three times, in book and audiobook form and was never able to get very far. It's unfortunate, because my understanding is that it was much more unique in it's own time. It's just that so many other people have used those same ideas over and over again, the series seems kind of cliche now. Granted, I probably have a much shorter attention span these days.