Fantasy, dragons and flying - oh my!

Well, my big pile o' books is at an end. Not sure what I'm going to do now, most of my regular authors aren't releasing anything until the summer or the FALL. I'm sure I'll come up with something.My recent literary conquests are:Peter Pan in Scarletby Geraldine McCaughreanThis is the official sequel to the original Peter Pan novel written by J M Barrie. There was a contest held um, sometime by someone or other and this lady won. (Oh, just google it.) So I read it and I didn't really like it. It was an interesting enough story and I enjoyed that part of it but I did not like the characters at all. I actually found myself getting angry at the way they were acting. I didn't much like the way it was written either... I guess I just don't get British humour or something.Eragonby Christopher PaoliniSo I saw the movie before I read the book. I liked the movie quite a lot and therefore went out and bought books one and two. Much to my dismay the book is NOTHING like the movie. There is "cutting stuff out" to make the movie a decent length but then there is "changing the entire story" which is pretty much what this was. I can count the number of similarities on one hand: there is a boy named Eragon, there is a dragon and there is um, a person named Brom. Oh, and the king isn't all that friendly or something. Now I didn't much like this book at all and I am not blaming it on the movie, I got past the differences in it pretty quick... I just found this book boring. Very boring. And I HATED Eragon. (I didn't much like him in the movie either). I liked the dragon though much more than the movie version. I struggled through the book trying to get into it and trying to like that stupid main character, but it was hard. Once at the end I was still determined to read the second book though...Eldestby Christopher PaoliniI have to say I loved 3/4 of this book. I did not like the last quarter, but aside from that, I was so impressed by the difference between the two books. Of course if (when?) they make the second movie it will be nothing like the book, it can't be due to the fact that the first book was nothing like the movie at all. The story starts only three days after the first one ends, which is kind of nice. It's all about Eragon's training as a Dragon Rider and his struggle with suddenly being a Rider. I LOVE that dragon to pieces and I still want one. (Guess I'll have to find a house with a big enough yard to keep one...) The ending of the book isn't a cliff hanger at all, it's obvious the next book will just continue from there. I think the author is still writing it so I'm out a story closure for a while. GAH! I will say it is worth suffering through book one to read book two. I am very curious to see where the third and final novel will take us.