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The story is engaging but the style of writing is not the best. I read the books once and will continue to follow the series, but won’t be rereading the books a second time. It IS worth reading one time at least.
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I first saw this on a shelf a couple years back and was intrigued by it but hadn’t picked it up to read it until my 8 year old insisted that it was an awesome story and that I’d love it. So, with him continually asking how I liked it, I read Artemis Fowl.

When asked by my wife about the plot, my best quick answer was that it is sort of an “evil Richie Rich carrying out a dastardly scheme against the world of fairies.” (For those unfamiliar with Richie Rich, he’s the super rich kid with tons of fun gadgets and crazy adventures to save his family/friends/world). In this case, the rich kid is 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, and his motives are less altruistic.

Style
The writing was well done. It was written very simply and straightforward which was good considering the audience. It was something that a young reader could pick up and push through without getting bogged down by the language. The writing and dialog was natural and flowed well. Overall, very nice.

I have only 2 gripes about the writing itself:
1. Numerical consistency. Specifically, the phrasing “[something happened:] in as many [amount of time:].” You’ve likely heard this phrase before…along the lines of “He fell on his butt three times in as many seconds.” Which means he fell on his butt 3 times in 3 seconds. Colfer uses this phrasing enough that it got distracting to me, especially the times when he used it without a good frame of reference or without numbers. I don’t have the text with me to provide an exact example…but the memory I have is something like “he passed out again in as many minutes.” The numerical reference “again” isn’t really concrete (can be alluded to as it being 2 since it’s the second time) and the timeframe mentioned didn’t fit based on everything that happened in between.
2. Swearing. This is a book presumably for an audience of young kids. Through the first ~2/3 of the book, the author introduced a fairy swear word and used it a handful of times. The word itself is meaningless an
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Anything goes spirituality…….Just like every other spiritualist guru Oprah promotes: I’m alright, your alright, we’re all alright. I’m a god, your a god, we’re all are own gods,…collectively. yuk yuk
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Ok… I know I know… MOTION! WOOHOO! Well, who cares about motion when most of the games are really crappy minigames or some guy that jumps on peoples’ heads.The only decent game is Smash Bros TRY A PS3! (LittleBigPlanet, ModNation racers,
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I’m quite happy with my new pedometer. The memory helps me compare my progress on a daily basis either through calories burned, aerobic steps or total distance. It’s simple to use as opposed to some I’ve seen. I highly recommend it.
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This thing is junk. It would not pump whatsoever. After half of hour of trying, I took it apart and tried to lubricate the seals. A tiny bit better but still worthless. The hoses are also stiff and come out of the can easily.

Save your money. This thing is wortheless. I would give it negative stars if there was a way to do so! Reason being that you have open and mess with it to find out it doesn’t work and after that, it is hart to return it.
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