Star Wars with dragons? Yeah, kind of. Eragon is long and overly complicated. The authors seems to have a major fondness for replacing one-syllable words with three (or more) syllable words whenever possible, making the narrative a bit tortured in places. 
 I probably would not have stuck with Eragon without the enthusiasm of my kid. Since I promised him I'd read it while he was reading it, I had to see it through! 
 I'd rank Eragon as okay, but only just. It would have benefited from a harsher editor. Beyond that, the storyline isn't terribly original, mashing together every possible trope from every fantasy epic quest ever written or filmed -- or at least, that's how it felt to me. 
 I amused myself by summarizing all of the plot similarities to Star Wars -- and now I've painted myself into a corner, because I think I'll have to keep going with the series in order to see if my Star Wars theories pan out down the line. 
 I wouldn't exactly say that you shouldn't read this book -- but if you have other fantasy novels on your to-read pile, there's no reason to bump Eragon to the top.