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Summary: Better than the Artemis Fowl Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved this book. I thought it would be good because Eoin Colfer is a great writer. Once you start to ead it is hard to stop. Colfer sucks you into the world of Meg Finn. Once you are in her world it is hard to get out, stop reading.
I recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed other books by Eoin Colfer or who likes adventure and supernatuaral books.
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Summary: Not as good as the Artemis Fowl Series, but still great
Review: I thought that this book was great. It wasn't as good as the Artemis Fowl Books, but those were some of the best books I've ever read. This book is about a person who is in pergutory (the place between heaven and hell) and is sent back to earth to help an old man she and a friend tried to rob. It is exciting and kept me inside all day reading. I couldn't put it down. I recomend it to people who like the Artemis Fowl books and people who are about 11, 12, or 13, or people who just like easy reads. I'd recomend buying it, plus if it sucks you only spent seven dollars on it, so it's not a fortune like some of those 30 dollar books.
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Summary: A humorous tale
Review: I truly enjoyed this book. The depictions of Beezelebub and the clashes between heaven and hell were scenes I looked forward to. The continuing plot line between the two second in commands fighting over a soul did a great job tying the book together and provided some great comic relief throughout. The main plot of this book is refreshing and intriguing.
I brought this one into class the day after I finished it. Of course my students have read Artemis Fowl, so they knew the author. Several students began bickering over who was going to get to read it first, and they haven't left it on the bookshelf since I brought it in. They love it! It's a great book and the kids enjoy it, what more could you want?
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Summary: The Wish List
Review: I was a bit skeptical about reading this, as a Christian, but I have thoroughly enjoyed Colfer's other books. I listened to this on CD twice in one week and it had me laughing out loud each time. Although the book is expectedly and limply resting on a secular, conscious-easing and commitment-reducing view of the afterlife, many of his off-the-cuff comments were surprisingly sincere. The reader makes each character delightfully unique (the accents are wonderful). Don't take it too seriously, but enjoy it.
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Summary: Isn't it high time for some originality?
Review: In a culture in which ignorance is celebrated, the last thing we need from an author whose audience consists mostly of impressionable kids is yet another tale based on outmoded superstitions such as Heaven, Hell and the pre-Copernican myth of the "soul." Main character Meg is caught in a tug-of-war between God and the Devil -- not terribly imaginative! This is a highly disappointing, utterly pedestrian and trite tale.If your audience is made up of young people, you have a responsibility to focus on talking to them as if they were intelligent. Why don't one of these authors leave behind the bad dreams of obsolete superstition and focus on the wonders of science? The scientific method, logic, skepticism and critical thinking are not taught enough -- if at all -- in the schools of the Western World (certainly not in America). As a children's-book author, wouldn't it be fantastic to lead them out of what Carl Sagan aptly called "The Demon-Haunted World" and into the light of truth, real discovery, the true breathtaking awe of nature (both microscopic and macrocosmic) and the topics that suggest civilization is moving ahead, rather than backwards? I obviously do not recommend this story for your children. Which kid will grow up with more hang-ups, neuroses and violent tendencies -- the kid who's beat physically, or the one whose head is filled with nightmares of Hell throughout childhood? Which hurts worse and lasts longer? Time to leave behind the scare tactics/reward tactics of unenlightened belief systems and try to come up with something inventive, original and refreshing. Otherwise, you are neglecting the responsibility you have to your readers when you're granted this much exposure.
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Summary: One of Colfer's best
Review: Meg Finn, a girl living in Ireland, is a troublemaker. She never did anything really bad, until now. Her partner, Belch, has forced her into robbing an elderly man. But when things don't go according to plan during the robbery, both Meg and Belch are thrown in front of the gateway between Heaven and Hell. There's no question about where Belch is headed, but no one can decide where Meg will go, her list is split down the middle with good and bad deeds. So the girl is sent back to earth to help the elderly man she and Belch had been robbing. It's now up to her to right what she had wronged in order to gain passage into Heaven. But things won't be so easy with Belch working for the Devil, trying his hardest to stop her, and present the Devil with her soul. Eoin Colfer has created another wonderful story about a girl, and the courage she had to bring fourth to save her. Any fan of Colfer's Artemis Fowl books will feel right at home with The Wish List.
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Summary: four stars, but hey, nothing's as good as Artemis Fowl
Review: Seeings how I thoroughly enjoyed the "Artemis Fowl" books and read them all in a matter of days, I didn't expect something quite so good from their author. But once again, Eoin Colfer's latest is a fantastic and catchy tale about Heaven and Hell and what one girl has to do to reach the one that will bring her to her mother. On this journey she encounters an old man, a dog-man, a couch potato, and Hell's one and only dark lord. This book was a wonderful read, and I reccomend it to anyone who is a Eoin Colfer fan. (note: the character "Belch Brennan" was possibly named after author Herbie Brennan, the author of Faerie Wars which was a favorite book of Eoin Colfer's.)
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Summary: Wish List + Eoin Colfer = Good Book
Review: The Wish List was far too short for my likings.
Although the story-line, good, with greatly sculpted characters and crack-up lines, it was too short. And I was sad to finish it. The Wish List was an awesome book, and I liked it mainly because I love Colfer's writing style, but also because of the great character development. But it was too short. Here are some other flaws I found with this book:
-overused ideas
-very unreallistic (although I'm not sure it was supposed to be)
-at some points, stupid beoynd all belief, and
-well, nothing else. Final Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
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Summary: One Word: Amazing!
Review: The Wish List was just an amazing book. I usually don't pick up books that have uninteresting titles or cover pages, but this particular one didn't have a cover page and was recommended by one of my fellow bookworm friends. She gave it to me (coverless), and told me to read it. I did, and I do not regret it. Meg, a round character and protagonist, provides laughs as well as intensity throughout the novel; two things that I look for in a well-developed character. I can't write more, for I read this book a long time ago and my memory of it is vague, but I bought it from the book store and plan to read it this week!
Overall, it's a GREAT book!
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Summary: The Wish List
Review: The Wish List
Eoin Colfer Miramax, 2003, 252 pp
ISBN: 078681863-8
"Meg Finn's soul was knocked clean out of her body." After she dies Meg is sent back to Earth so that she can make up for all the wrong things that she has done in her short 13 years of life. She is sent to help an old man, named Lowrie McCall, do the four things that he regrets not doing; these things are on his wish list. She helps him complete the items but in the process she breaks a few rules. Will helping Lowrie be enough to help Meg? Eoin Colfer has a very active imagination to be able to create a non depressing book about such a serious topic. This book is great for people dealing with the death of others around them. The Wish List puts a kind of light hearted spin on the topic. To find out if Meg goes up to the "Pearlies" or down where it's hot, or to find out about Colfer's perception of the after life, read THE WISH LIST.
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