Eragon (Inheritance Book 1) by Christopher Paolini

One day Eragon is out hunting and just he is about to make his kill there is an explosion when the dust clears he finds a strange jewel in a crater. This is the start of his adventures as the Jewel turns out to be a dragon egg and when it hatches he becomes the first new dragon rider in hundreds of years. Eragon leaves his village with the mysterious Brom the storyteller hunting down creatures called the Ra'zac who had killed his uncle looking for him. While he hunts he is also hunted by the King and the monstrous Urgals and is trained in the ways of sword fighting and magic. Will he survive the hunt and what will he do when he has killed the Ra'zac.

I quite liked it and will read more of Paolini's books. I was a pleasant book to read and if found that there were some resemblance's to other books (i.e. Eragon's training while travelling seemed to be an awful lot like Belgarion's training in the Belgariad)