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Summary: Great 1st Book
Review: This book is great! It inspired me to read 'Arctic Incident' and 'Eternity Code'. I think that the combination of humor, and action make a great combination. Eoin Colfer did a great job!
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Summary: Cute story, but not overly developed storyline...
Review: This is a good book. If you are a Harry Potter fan looking for a book to read while you are waiting for #5, you might enjoy this book. While it is a cute story, and the concept has huge potential, I felt that the story was not overly developed and there was something lacking. The main character, Artemis Fowl, is supposed to be a criminal mastermind, yet this is not explored, and he comes off more like a spoiled rich boy. You probably will not empathize with any of the characters... they are not overly complex. That said, I don't wan't to give the impression that this is a bad book, I think that kids 12 and under would like it. Adult Harry Potter fans will feel dissapointed though...
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Summary: Impressed but not impressed
Review: I was impressed by Colfer's knowledge of faeries. Normally when writers write about faeries they automatically assume that they are dealing with Tinkerbells and not the complex creatures that they are. I also like Colfer's writing style, it was very relazed but at the same time sophisticated. What I didn't like was the characters, they weren't portrayed with a lot of feeling or depth. Artemis was a boring brat, his servants mindless and the faeries themselves seemed like rejects from the Dirty Dozen. I was impressed by something but somethings I weren't I am just so jaded from reading so many books and being hard to impress. Also the Harry Potter comparisons don't fit since they are entirely different stories. So that is my two cents.
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Summary: A Good Book, Non-stop action and fun!
Review: I think that Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer, is a really good book. It has everything I want in a book, fantasy, adventure, action, and humor. I also like this great book for its tone, genre, and plot. Speaking of plot let me describe it to you. The plot goes a little something like this. The story begins when Captain Holly Short of LEPrecon is given a mission above ground, in the human world. Holly, who is an elf, is kidnapped while she is on the surface. Her kidnapper is a thirteen-year-old genius that goes by the name of Artemis Fowl. Holly?s commander sends a retrieval crew to rescue Holly from Artemis. After Artemis? manservant scares off the retrieval squad, the commander himself comes to the Fowl Manor with his men. A time stop is triggered, freezing time inside the time stop dome for six hours. The commander, whose name is Root, tries to negotiate with Fowl. Artemis requests just one thing. One ton of rare and expensive faerie gold. Root requests the gold from the vaults, but is denied. Having no other choice, he sends in a dwarf, but the dwarf fails to free Holly. Finally, another high-ranking official in LEPrecon sends in a troll to breach the mansion and take out Fowl. The troll is defeated, but Holly escapes, but not until the gold is recovered. Root sets up a blue rinse bomb, which kills all living things in its path, inside the mansion. It is set off, and then he and his men enter to take back their gold. What happens after this is classified. After all, I don?t want to give away the ending, do I? Like I said before, this book is a really great book! In fact, I give it a five star rating! This book is also somewhat related one of my other favorite book series, Harry Potter. They are both fantasy, they both use magic, and they both involve danger, action, and adventure. Mr. Colfer did a great job on this book! I can?t wait to read his next Artemis Fowl book!
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Summary: Imaginative but too violent
Review: This is such an imaginative story. I loved the author's modern day vision of the magical realm and the empowerment of 12 year old Artemis. However, Artemis as the main character lacked sufficient development and there was way too much violence. Considering this is supposed to be a children's book, the details about all the guns was just too much. I don't want to think about any young adults having to know what a sig sauer gun is, let alone how often it gets used in this book. Overall I have to say I was disappointed in the book and probably will not be reading the rest in the series which is unfortunate because it really is imaginative.
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Summary: High-tech fairy tale
Review: Artemis Fowl is an effective combination of Irish folk mythology and science fiction that accepts rather than rejects the violent world we live in. After a somewhat leisurely start, the story quickly accelerates into a breakneck pace that ought to keep most PS2-addicted youngsters interested. Colfer has a talent for carrying the plot along with a combination of action, humor, and likable characters. Even the minor players are all vividly sketched. There are original touches in the unusual dirt-digesting dwarf, Mulch Diggums, and the People's subterranean-to-surface transportation system. The tough-talking fairies of Colfer's imagination are also highly technologically advanced and militarily equipped, which should be just the thing for gadget-oriented readers. Colfer lightly inserts technical and historical details that help give weight to his imagined world, and his poop humor is clever and, well, clean. Despite the book's title, the 12-year-old "criminal mastermind" does not dominate the story, though the plot pivots around his actions. Artemis is determined to steal a fortune to replenish his family's depleted coffers, but he has a nagging conscience that humanizes him. The only element of the story that gave me pause is a graphic, gory battle with a bloodthirsty troll - but in this age of gut-spattering video games, it differs from what children are exposed to only in the level of detail, not in kind. In sum, for children who are aware of events in our warring world, Artemis Fowl is fun, fast, possibly even therapeutic entertainment with a heart.
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Summary: Superb and craftily written tale
Review: This tale differs greatly from Harry Potter and the author, Eoin Colfer, weaves a creative tale with believable characters (as much as a fantasy can be believable). Artemis is a criminal mastermind at only 12 years old. His intelligence and vocablulary baffle every expert who has tried to unlock the secrets of his complex mind. His father, Artemis Fowl I, was the head of the family criminal capers. But, his father is missing and his mother is suffering from depression, so he pretty much has free rein. But this boy doesn't sit around playing video games all day, he decides to take after dear old dad. Holly is an elf living underground, your typical member of a fairy police force. She frequently endangers her job, being the only girl on the force. She has to venture aboveground to complete the mysterious Ritual,but, SURPRISE!, Artemis, with the help of his bodyguard, Butler, kidnaps Holly. The rest of the book follows the siege between the fairies and Artemis. Near the end, Artemis has to escape a "blue rinse" that kills all life in a certain radius--and the fairies have blocked every way to escape it. Will he escape? Will Holly be returned to the People? Anyone who enjoys a good book, (even adults!) will enjoy this excellent book.
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Summary: Artemis Fowl, the best book I've ever read. All most
Review: I would give the book Artemis Fowl 4 stars. Artemis Fowl is a 12 year old boy who is a criminal master mind, genius, and a millionaire. Artemis wants to get all of the fairies gold, because he thinks that if he gets the gold his father might come back. And if his father comes back then his mother would act like herself again. Another one of the main characters is Holly Short. Holly is one of the few women officers of the LEP(lower element police). Holly Short loves to go flying. One day when she was flying she decided to take a break. That's when Artemis Fowl took Holly as a prisoner. To get Holly back the LEP would have to give Artemis a ransom of gold. There were only a few magical elements. The magical elements were fairies, spirit, leprechauns, pixies, trolls, and gnomes. The fairies, spirit, leprechauns, pixies, trolls, and gnomes make up the underground world. The weirdest thing in the book was that none of the magical creatures had magical wings, the had motorized wings.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: It's a wonderful book. I got it between Harry Potter books, and found it as a great alternative to Harry Potter. I liked the way Artemis thought!!
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Summary: Not Bad
Review: To be truthful, I liked the books. I've read the first two, and the plot isn't bad, although the characters aren't too new. The only thing in this book that bugged me was the constant blows at us horrible humans and how we've polluted the earth so badly. It may be true, but the way it's shoved in your face just makes me want to throw the book down. The other point is Captain Short. You know the girl who managed to do everything, was the head of the glass, and who everyone respected and liked? Remember how crazy she drove you? This is her. However, I'd still recommend the books, purly for Artemis Fowl himself. I've never met such a likeable, evil-yet-not character.
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