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Title: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer, Nathaniel Parker ISBN: 1-4000-8592-6 Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (164 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bloody good
Comment: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident is the second instalment in the Artemis Fowl series. Now, if you have yet to read the first, don't even think about reading this one first, as you will be totally lost. Well, not totally, but you'll not be able to fully appreciate some of the character emotions and actions. Here we find Artemis Fowl Jr. on a rescue mission to save his father from the Russian Mafiya. On his way, he is abducted by LEPrecon Captain Holly Short, taken in for questioning about illegal trading with goblins. He is, duhviously, innocent, but is nevertheless enlisted to aid the People, in exchange for help with his father. Sounds simple, right? What could possibly go wrong? How about everything?
A disillusioned LEP officer concocts an elaborate scheme to overtake the LEP and, eventually, the Upper World. While Captain Short, Commander Root, Artemis and Butler, Artemis'...butler, go to Russia, Haven is thrown into utter chaos, and only our heroes can save the Lower Elements.
What could possibly be bad with this book?
How about nothing?
The action is fast-paced, with many surprises, twists and 'eh?' moments, where you marvel at the utter coolness of this book. If you do not read this book, you are missing out on a GREAT literary experience. I also refuse to believe that Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, is the last we'll hear of Artemis' hijinks.
Anyhows. Buy this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: terrific sequel, more mature hero
Comment: The great thing about the first Artemis Fowl novel was the idea that fairies, far from being pretty little things with gauzy wings are a secret race of technologically advanced beings living deep underground. Colfer tapped deep into Irish myth and came up with the idea that fairy gold was real - and a teenage master-criminal was going to get it.
Artemis is a great anti-hero, and when the new book begins he's running rings round the school shrink (whose ... psychology books he's naturally read and despised.) This is very funny, but what's better is that underneath the cockiness, Artemis is a boy with a messed-up family who really misses his Dad, who vanished in Russia. News comes that his father isn't dead but kidnapped by the Mafia, and the only way Artemis can get him out is to join forces with his arch-Nemesis, Holly SHort of the LEPRecon unit. Currently in disgrace, Holly has a few problems of her own...like putting down a goblin rebellion.
All the great comic characters such as Muclh Diggums, the disgusting dwarf who chomps his way through the earth, expelling it out his rear end (now pretending to be a reclusive Hollywood star) are back. It's fast and funny, and if Colfer's The WIsh List (published in the US as The Eternity Code) is more moving and thoughtful, well, kids will love that too.
Rating: 4
Summary: It's not hard to see this as a movie
Comment: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident has our former villain, Artemis Fowl, basking in the win of both half a ton of gold and the return of his mother's mental health. Less exciting is when he is sent back to boarding school (makes you pity school counselors even more). But he is soon on a mission to rescue his father, who was kidnapped by the Russian organized crime syndicate. To do so, he will forge a temporary (?) truce with the Lower Elements Police Force: they help find his father, he helps find out who's behind the plot to disarm the LEP and take over the world.
The only actor I can't find someone for is Artemis.
HOLLY- Winona Ryder
BUTLER- Tom Hanks
MULCH- Colin Farell
OPAL KOBOI- Monica Belucci
ROOT- Sly Stallone
CUDGEON- Tommy Lee Jones
RUSSIAN MAFIYA- Russian people
TROUBLE- Matt Damon
FOALY- Joey Pants
Some people might say, "Colin Farell as Mulch?!?" But Farell's Irish, and Rhys-Davies has already been Gimli. It says Mulch should be Irish. And Farell was enough of a sleazeball in Daredevil that he could play a kleptomaniac.
But I digress. This is a great book. You're left hanging at the end, and all the things left unfinished are too good to spoil. Buy, buy, buy. Definitely for 10+.
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Title: Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1) by Eoin Colfer ISBN: 0786817070 Publisher: Miramax (Kids) Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, Book 3) by Eoin Colfer ISBN: 0786819146 Publisher: Miramax (Kids) Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini ISBN: 0375826688 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke ISBN: 0439404371 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064410137 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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