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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The Artemis book was a great book. I liked it because a 12 year old boy worte it. The book was about how most people own hospitals. The other thing about the book is that it is a case. The name of the book is Artemis Fowl. His name is Eoin Colfer. The genre is fiction. Artemis was always sitting in of his computer screen and it was bleaching his skin. The setting was in his house. The book was about a case that Artemis is trying to sovle. It might be a bit harder to crake this case. To find out you will have to read to find out. (  )1   dbzgt | Jan 7, 2010 |  Not my cup of tea. (  ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | Not my cup of tea. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | Not my cup of tea. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | Not my cup of tea. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | 
 The truth is, fairies in their essence are said to possess glamour, a word that originally meant something like charm -- the ability to bewitch. Hardware may intrigue, caustic belligerence may be sexy to a contemporary 12-year-old, but neither ingredient bewitches. Despite a brave and promising premise, ''Artemis Fowl'' is charmless.
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Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. Of course, he isn't foolish enough to believe in all that "gold at the end of the rainbow" nonsense. Rather, he knows that the only way to separate the little people from their stash is to kidnap one of them and wait for the ransom to arrive. But when the time comes to put his plan into action, he doesn't count on the appearance of the extrasmall, pointy-eared Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) Unit--and her senior officer, Commander Root, a man (sorry, elf) who will stop at nothing to get her back.
Fantastic stuff from beginning to end, Artemis Fowl is a rip-roaring, 21st-century romp of the highest order. The author has let his imagination run riot by combining folklore, fantasy, and a fistful of high-tech funk in an outrageously devilish book that could well do for fairies what Harry Potter has done for wizardry. But be warned: this is no gentle frolic, so don't be fooled by the fairy subject matter. Instead, what we have here is well-written, sophisticated, rough 'n' tumble storytelling with enough high-octane attitude to make it a seriously cool read for anyone over the age of 10. --Susan Harrison
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