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Summary: Move over Harry Potter!!
Review: The book I read was Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. It was a great book about a boy named Artemis Fowl, who is a criminal mastermind. He knows that mythical creatures live on the earth. Artemis tries to discover the creatures. This is an action packed book. To find out if Artemis steals the fairies gold, read this story.
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Summary: Harry Potter vs. Artemis Fowl
Review: Okay let's face it, neither one of these books are really that well written but they are kids books and perhaps they will keep them more interested in reading instead of a very well written Charles Dickenish book. However, since I gave five stars to Harry Potter I might as well as give five stars to Artemis Fowl. I don't think that Artemis Fowl will be the next Harry Potter but that's plainly becuase of the way adults will look at this book. I mean I cannot vision a mom or dad or a teacher reading this book (it's quite violent you know) and say to their beloved daughter or son or students, "We are going to read this together!". However, I do really like the book myself because the main character is not a good guy, all other books have good characters as main characters (okay there are a few exception but still...). Besides, the reality is kids and teenagers like bad guys these days (okay not the ones bad to bones but the one with some kind of personality). Also it gives us a sense of reality. Knowing that a good guys don't alwyas win and a bad guys don't always loose and that there are not that many Harry Potter running around saving the world everyday. So I definatly would recommand this book to anyone who think the same as me.
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Summary: Read this book!
Review: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a 12 year-old mischievous, mastermind? Eventhough Artemis Fowl was a bad guy we have to give him credit for being so clever. In the book Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer, the main character, Artemis, tries to regain his family's lost wealth. He tries to accomplish this feat by capturing a fairy. Unfortunately, he stumbles onto the wrong fairy. This starts the exciting conflict. To find out more, you need to read the book. Artemis Fowl was not like most fantasy books. The characters in the story were much more believable, intelligent, and human-like. For instance, the fairies do not have real wings. They are actually strap them on. Characteristics like these helped us identify with the characters. The Book club considers this story an advanced fairy tale. Mr. Colfer created a page-turner with many literary devices. He used foreshadowing by introducing Artemis Fowl as someone who always is up to something and gave us hints to what would happen next without actually giving away the story. Mr. Colfer's use of similes helped to describe the characters and the setting very well. Furthermore, he craftily utilized imagery to describe Fowl Manor (Artemis' house) and the fairy world. We enjoyed the format of the book. It was written in a case file report. Although the changing setting could be difficult to follow at times, it was definitely a creative way of writing the story. The book club definitely recommends this book. We look forward to the sequel, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, which will be released in May.
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Summary: 5 stars but far from Harry Potter status
Review: Ok, I read this book because I heard from various articles that this was the next big thing after Harry Potter and all fans of Harry should get this book and read it. Well, I think that this book was really very well written and had great imagination and magic in it...but it doesn't measure up to Harry Potter. I didn't feel the need to read on with this book as I did with Harry. Plus the plot lines are definitely very different. In this book 12 year old Artemis Fowl is a so called child genius. He and his sidekick/bodyguard Butler hatch a genius plan to steal some fairy gold so they can restore the Fowl dynasty. Well, Artemis made one big mistake by capturing Holly Short an LEP officer. Thus starts the battle of brains between the fairies and Artemis. Magic is throughout this book and I found the end to be very exciting and suspensful. I can't wait for Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident...but this book did not measure up to Harry Potter. Even though it had great magic in this book the explanation for that magic at the end was kinda not what I expected. I wanted something much more creative. Something the so called genius Artemis would think up.
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Summary: Interesting!
Review: Contrary to some of the opinions that have been expressed, one of the things I liked most about the Artemis Fowl was the lead character himself, 12-year old Artemis. His ingenuity and brilliance combined with an appalling ruthlessness makes him one of the most fascinating characters I've read in a long time. Artemis is the sort of anti-hero you would despise in real life but root for in a story. In that sense, he reminds me of Carmen San Diego who proves to be just as big a challenge to her adversaries as Artemis is to the LEPrecon unit. Also, I have to add that comparing Artemis Fowl to the Harry Potter series doesn't really help since the two books are different in so many aspects. First of all, Artemis is definitely NOT Harry. He may be young but he's far from innocent or well intentioned. And I really wouldn't recommend him as a role model for young kids. Secondly, while the Harry Potter series is about the battle between good and evil (to put it simply), Artemis Fowl's story is about a battle of wits between the humans and the fairies where each group tries to outsmart the other. No one side can be simply classified as good or evil (although some people out there would probably disagree and promptly classify Artemis in the latter category). There are many other differences between the two but so far the only thing in common I can find for both Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter is that they both belong to the fantasy genre which really doesn't provide much of a basis for comparison. All in all, I'd say Artemis Fowl is a pretty good read. The story is inventive and interesting with an exciting pace and an intriguing lead character to match. While it's probably not the best reading material for young impressionable kids out there, I'd definitely recommend it to young adults and everyone else interested in fantasy and sci-fi.
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Summary: what the......
Review: I bought this book coz it have a such excellent review, I'm a Harry Potter book fans and they recomment this book to read before the 5th Harry Potter book come out,....well It is nothing like Harry Potter and it's no fun reading at all and very confusing, specially the police fairy stuff and the underground world, I hardly finished 1/4 of the book and I'll stop. No good at all, wasting money.....
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Summary: Put a plug in it.
Review: I'm suspicious of any book hyped these days as the next Harry Potter. Harry Potter, the phenomenon, is extraordinary, and by definition the extraordinary isn't going to happen a whole lot. So, while always bearing in mind that anything is possible, I approached Eoin Colfer's "Artemis Fowl" with some trepidation which, as it turns out, was justified. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to admire here. Those technophile fairies with their in-your-face attitude are a refreshing contrast to the normal Disney fare. The plot is clever and fun, the save-the-earth message creditable. There's a nifty holographic dust jacket design, and additional encoded text to decipher at the footer of every page. But the title character, in spite of a swell name, remains a bit of an enigma, and there's too much reliance on what my mother would call "potty humor." Now there's nothing wrong with a good fart joke, and there's nothing wrong with playing to your target audience. Let's face it, kids like that kind of stuff. To a point it's harmless, and I laughed through much of the first third of the book. But Mr. Colfer crosses the admittedly nebulous line between playing to his young audience and pandering to them. As the novel progresses the startling preoccupation with bodily excreta and effluvia becomes apparent. It becomes unseemly and ultimately overbearing. One wishes that Mr. Colfer, as a presumed adult and a schoolteacher to boot, had opted for a slightly higher road. It is clear from the denouement that this is the first entry in a proposed series, and there is promise here, lots of it. Let's just hope Mr. Colfer can be potty-trained.
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Summary: This was a fantastic book!!
Review: I loved this book! It was written really well and the plot is fantastic. I really recommend it for everyone. I like the question it brought up about monsters and the humans as pollutants theme is great for green peeps.
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Summary: Fowl is not foul
Review: Harry Potter doesn't have half the brains that this 12-year-old mastermind does. Just because Harry has 4 books and a movie, and Artemis Fowl has 1 book, 1 book in progress, and a movie in progress, doesn't mean he's worse.
I greatly enjoyed this book. It is written well, the plot is definitly one to understand and the storyline is followable. The description also really helps.
Artemis Fowl is a twelve year old boy living in a European or Asian country. He's an incredibly sly boy, living in a mansion with his sick mother, and his father missing in action for the past couple of years. His servant, Butler, a weaponry attached to a muscular body, and a slim teenage sister (of Butler) set out with Artemis on a journey to prove that mythical creatures exist. All three of them get into a lot of trouble, including being caught in a time stop (if you read the book, you'll find out what that is). All of their adventures are twisted yet fun and exciting at the same time. Overall, this book is a must read for any age. Well, maybe a little higher than 7 years old.
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Summary: Couldn't get into it
Review: I bought this book because it came highly recommended to Harry Potter fans. From the brief description I read about it, I thought it sounded like some fun, light reading. I figured I'd zip though it. But I just couldn't get interested. How can they expect me to care about the main character when he's an obnoxious 12 year old millionaire? He's nasty to nearly everyone he meets. And he's also supposed to be a child genius, so he talks to everyone like they're stupid. It's far from enchanting, to say the least. The story follows Artemis as he attempts to take over the fairy world or something like that. To be honest, I could barely get through half of this book. Artemis is repellent. The real story in this book, though, isn't really about Artemis, it's about Holly, the fairy that he kidnaps. She's the real hero: smart, funny, and interesting. She almost makes reading about Artemis bearable!
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