Artemis
Fowl by Eoin
Colfer
17 May
2010
This
is the first story in the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis Fowl is
a criminal mastermind, whose family has a long line of
criminals starting hundreds of years ago. The Fowls are
closely related to another family known as the Butlers,
who serve as their bodyguards and butlers (just some
background information, they are secretly trained, then serve
the Fowls for the rest of their lives. They also
cannot let their employer know their real name, just
calling them Butler) Somehow, he finds out about a group
of "fairy tale creatures", meaning fairies, gnomes, sprites,
centaurs, etc. Since his family's fortune is getting smaller,
and he is getting poorer, Artemis decides to kidnap a fairy,
and demands a ransom of pure gold. Unfortunately for him, this
is a very dangerous thing to do.
The
book is interesting, as well as exciting. It is the kind of
book that keeps the reader flipping the page. If you like
fairies in a modern world (meaning using guns), this is the
book for you.
The
Neverending Story by Michael Ende (translated by Ralph
Manheim)
17 May
2010
There are three types of books for reviews: 1) Books that
are too short to summarise(the whole story is told). 2) Books
that are just nice for summarising 3) Books that are too long
to summarise
This book falls in the third category. The story focuses on
a fat little boy called Bastian Balthazar Bux. One day, while
running away from some kids, he comes into a bookshop, and
steals a book. He escapes, hides in the school attic and
starts reading. There's a difference of what happens in the
book and what really happens. The parts of the story that
really happens is in italics. The ones in the book are in
normal
letters.
The book has many chapters, each starting with a fancy
letter that is difficult to read. Sometimes a little reading
on is required to "decipher" the letter. Every chapter is
about a new character or place, and always ends with telling
the future of the character and saying , "But that is another
story, and shall be told another time." The book tells of
friendship and even betrayal.
Just some information, the book was originally in German,
and published in 1979. The English translation came out 4
years later. This book was also made into multiple films.
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