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Title: The Tower at the End of the World by Brad Strickland, S. D. Schindler, John Bellairs ISBN: 0-8037-2620-1 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: go lewis, go rose rita!
Comment: I have to say that Lewis Barnevelt was my favorite character when i was little. I also have to say that the house with a clock in its walls & the figure in the shadows are two of the scariest books when you are nine.
read this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Back to the story of the first
Comment: The latest John-Bellairs-esque offering from Brad Strickland goes back to Bellairs' first book. While it might be possible to read "Tower" without having read the first John Bellairs book, "House With A Clock In Its Walls," it is probable that newbies won't understand. So go read that book. Then come read this book.
Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger are romping around a lakeside with their friends and relatives, but things are not going to remain peaceful. Someone attacks Uncle Jonathan - but steals nothing valuable from the house. Lewis sees strange visions of impending death: a banshee, a Japanese specter with a huge toothy mouth, and a hairy beast with glowing eyes that is stalking him in his dreams and in his waking life. He also learns of a note that says he will die on a specified day. Unsurprisingly, Lewis is very freaked out by this.
And on a boat trip out on a lake, our heroes encounter a strange, misty island with a giant black tower. And they find a new supernatural mystery that stems from their first adventure: the son of Isaac and Selenna Izard's son, Ishmael. And Ishmael is not only a sorcerer, but he fully intends to destroy the world.
Strickland inserts the elements of Bellairs that we all love best: Evil wizards, sinister dreams, vague reasons to destroy the world, unabashedly sinister surroundings, things that appear and vanish without warning, hideous beasties, and evil magic that the good wizards wouldn't touch with a ten-foot wand. He also manages to harken back to "House" without overloading the reader with too much "this is how it happened," and manages to create a plot reminiscent of Bellairs' first book without repetition.
Characterization is seamless; Lewis and Rose Rita are just as we remember them, as are the ever-bantering Mrs. Zimmerman and Uncle Jonathan. So is the writing style, which remains spare unless something sinister is happening. If something hideous rears its head, the writing becomes creepily descriptive. My beefs? Well, there are a few threads that feel... well, un-picked-up by the end. A little too loose. In addition, one of the final scenes is somehow a little cheesy and a little too cute.
Few flaws aside, this is a wonderful spinechiller with a great climax, a deliciously BAAAAAD villain, and the quirky Bellairs heroes we know and love.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Tower at the end of the World
Comment: I like the book because in the middel of the book it gets intersting and makes me want to read more. Three reasons I like it is that the animals are abel to talk to some of the people in the book.There are wiches and beast near the tower.
The best part of the book was when the to perasos had to go through all the trouble tring to get the book of someting.They also had to give the book to the witch becuse the some lizerd told them to do it.
This book is great because you can like see the charecters in your mind. In a conflic you feel like your in the novel.
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Title: The Specter from the Magician's Museum by Brad Strickland, John Bellairs, Edward Gorey, Lisa Moore ISBN: 0140386521 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost by John Bellairs, Brad Strickland ISBN: 0803726228 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge by Brad Strickland ISBN: 0142300659 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Doom of the Haunted Opera by John Bellairs, Brad Strickland ISBN: 0140376577 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Ghost in the Mirror by John Bellairs, Brad Strickland, Edward Gorey ISBN: 0140349340 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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