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Summary: The criminal nephew of Harry Potter
Review: Artemis Fowl is a brilliant 12 year old boy. He is also, after the disappearance of his father, the head of the criminal Fowl family. Together with his father 250000 cans of Coca Cola and a large part of the family fortune also disappeared. So Artemis has decided on a criminal plan to get the Fowl family back in business: he is going to kidnap an elf and get a ransom of 1 ton of pure elf gold in return.His bad luck is that he happens to kidnap not just any elf, but Captain Holly Short, the first female officer of the elFBI. What follows is a clash between the elves, who are not the docile little creatures that are depicted in the fairy tales, and their helpers (including a cynical centaur, a mud-eating kleptomaniac dwarf and an all-destroying troll) and Artemis and his helpers, Butler and his sister Juliet. The story is very entertaining: it has a lot of pace, the twists and turns are unexpected and the various elves and their helpers are sometimes hilarious (I especially loved the mud-eating dwarf and the way he disposed of the mud). However, the story is not in the same league as Harry Potter, mainly due to the fact that Artemis is an awful little brad: far too wise for his age and with an answer to everything. However, if you want a nice read for a holiday and a lot of laughs, this is a good book to read.
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Summary: nasty, brutish, and not short enough.
Review: I read "Artemis" partway into Chapter 2 to my children, ages 13 and 10 - then refused to read more, and my kids haven't protested. We're reading "The Magician's Nephew" now. I'm an engineer and a lifetime reader of sci-fi, so take that into account. First, a brief summary: Artemis Fowl, a 12-year old boy genius, plans to restore his family's fortunes, by capturing one of the 'Little People' and demanding 1 ton of 24-caret gold as ransom. The setting is present time, but (ala Harry Potter) with a parallel, hidden civilization of the Fairy Folk. The fairies turn out to be like the Germans on "Hogan's Heroes" if anybody remembers that old TV show. Volatile, bumbling, crude, blustering, cowardly, bureaucratic. In spite of having some magical powers, they have come to depend on a technology only moderately more advanced than ours. Artemis, with his faithful butler (named Butler), outwits the fairies at every turn, with a few obligatory exceptions, and after extensive mayhem with bare hands, claws, excrement, small-arms and tactical nukes, Artemis triumphs, forgoing half of his ton of gold in exchange for the recovered health and sanity of his widowed mother. The unsympathetic fairies, dwarves, trolls etc. consistently upstage the larcenous, 1-dimensional 'good guys'. "Artemis Fowl" seems to me to be a hasty, poorly-edited attempt to cash in on Potter-mania. It is entertaining in a kind of soulless made-for-TV-movie way. "This was no ordinary dart rifle. It had been specially tooled for a Kenyan ivory hunter, and had the range and rapid fire capacity of a Kalashnikov. Butler had picked it up for a song from a government official after the ivory poacher's execution." I also think some adults will be surprised, as I was, by the level of graphically described violence. "Butler felt a cold pain as the serrated ivory pierced his chest. ... That was a lung gone, and gouts of blood were matting the troll's fur. His blood." Quite the fairy tale.
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Summary: Look Out Harry Potter!
Review: This book was great. It has its own genre, and so creative. If you like Harry Potter... read it. If you like battle... read it. Fantasy, Fiction, u name it, it has it. It's very thriling and so very exciting.GREAT!
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Summary: good fun, not much more
Review: There are other reviewers who have said everything I would say, so I will make this brief.... Just wanted to make clear to parents who are reading here: there is quite a bit of "fowl" language <ark> and violence in this book, including some fairly graphic gore. We read it aloud, so it was easy to edit out, but I was surprised in a book aimed at this age group at the amount there was to edit. If your kids watch PG-13 movies (our oldest does), it won't be anything they haven't heard or seen, but I admit I was a bit offended to find it in a book aimed at this age group. Maybe because it seems so out of place when reading out loud as a family. And also because you could so easily leave it out without ruining a kid's enjoyment of the story. For the most part, we enjoyed this book. It was boring at times, which seemed odd for a book billed as a suspense novel. I would have liked it a lot more without the epilogue--the ending redeems Artemis a bit, but then the epilogue takes it all back (I can't say more without ruining the ending, which imo was the best part of the book). It's a fun read, but we were all definitely ready to move on to the next book by the time we were done--unlike some other books, which we were sorry to have end.
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Summary: Non-stop action!
Review: You would not belive everything that hapens in this book when the crafty Artemis sets his sights higher than the mortal relm. Will he survive and claim the gold or will the L.E.P. get the better of him? This will keep you on your toes no matter what! Harry Potter has nothing on this! (refering to the 2ed and 3erd books)
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Summary: Wonderfully creative
Review: Eoin Colfer is a creative genuise. His book takes the fantasy of faires and puts a totally new twist on it.
Artemis Fowl is extremely smart for an adult, the thing is though he is only twelve. Plans to make his family even more money have him kidnaping an agent from the Lower Elements Police recon, or as it is known, LEPrecon. They've ditched the top hats and shileghlas for more suitable clothing.
Artemis was planning for the elves to come back quickly and was expecting a lot from them, but he must have calculated wrong. They are smarter than he thought.
Yet he sticks to his plan and tries to ransom off the agent he has tied up.
This book is good, deserving of every star, but not for the story itself. That is confusing at times, and the characters are little cared for at times, all of them. What makes this book excellent is the effort put into it. There are no glitches or holes in the plot, and the ancient fairy script is even running along the bottom of each page. The author created it for the reader to decode! That is awesome. This comes highly with recomendations
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Summary: Root for the bad guys
Review: This was one of the only books I've read where I found myself hoping that the so-called "bad guys" would win. By that I mean Artemis Fowl. I liked how it mixed magical creatures with modern technology. My favorite part about this book was that Artemis Fowl was always 2 steps ahead of everyone.
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Summary: Entertaining to the last
Review: Artemis Fowl was a wonderful book!! I read it in one sitting, and also decoded the symbols at the bottom (which actually wasn't as hard as it might seem). I loved everything about the book, and I recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: The Best Book Ever!!!!!
Review: This Is my all time Favorite Book!!!It ranges from mystery to fantasy and criminal mastermind!!!I would recomend this book to anyone who likes either of those type of books!
And the best part about this book is that it has its own Language(in writing)!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Go buy this book, now.
Review: If you like action, buy this book. If you like magic, buy this book. If you like books, buy this book. If you have any taste at all, buy this book. This book will have you at the edge of your seat while reading about the adventures of the LEP recon trying to fight artemis fowl and his butler (yeah baby!), If you enjoy reading about die hard sorts of books, then buy this, cause its packing all the action you can handle (well, almost.), But just get it, alright? Honestly, you'll devour it. The idea of this modern myth warrior book is awesome. The description "Warfare with magical creatures that have cool guns, battling humans with guns." pretty much sums it up. Except it leaves out one part. This book is awesome! SO BUY IT! OR PAY THE PRICE. (even though buying kinda makes you have to pay the price, o well.) But ANYWAYS, BUY IT NOW!
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