Book: Artemis Fowl #1
Author: Eoin Colfer
By Alexander Hall
12-year-old Artemis Fowl is a criminal mastermind. It is his job to get his family fortune back. It all started when Russians sank his dad’s ship. Artemis Fowl Sr. had bought a cargo ship with 250 thousand cans of Coca Cola on it. He was going to sell it for money for years. Russians didn’t like the idea of an Irish tycoon selling all of it in their market. They sank his ship. No one has seen him since, so they all think he’s dead. Artemis Fowl Jr. has an idea. If he gets money from fairies, he can sell it and make millions. All he has to do is get an ancient rulebook for fairies, translate it, and capture a fairy. This would be easy for Artemis, considering that he is a kid prodigy. But this small kidnap will turn into a war.
This funny book for all ages will get you thinking. You will not know whose side to take because Eoin makes you feel like one of the fairy officers or one of Artemis’ butlers in every chapter. Will Artemis win? Or will the fairies wipe them out of existence?
Quik Stik Tire Changer
First of all before you cry in the comments this is meant to be a rant about apple being full of it.
It’s a good product itself, although I could take a sledgehammer to my iPod nano 3g and not even get a scratch (this is serious, the screen was nearly bulletproof). I gave this to a friend after a while because of apple’s full-of-it-ness.
Story, first 3 months, fine.
Then it had weird charging patterns where it would cut out when you touched it lightly. Thought nothing of it, blew it out, moved on.
Kept doing it, looked in it, one of the charging pins was bent. Thought “OK Apple should fix this because it’s clearly a defect in their product”. Set up a store meeting at apple’s website. Product is only 4 months into its 1 year warranty.
Went in the next day, they told me “OH you must have done that yourself, give us $120 and it’s yours!” YEAH THE HELL RIGHT, I paid $170 for this.. This is just unbelievable, one of my friends had the iPod touch battery go to nearly zero capacity a week after he bought it NEW here and they said “Well if you give us $70 we’ll fix it.” Who can honestly say this is not total crap?
Seriously Apple, change your damn attitude or no one will buy your stuff except the fanboys out there.
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I’ve read the 5 books of this series and cannot wait for the 6th! This author has a wonderful imagination and sense of humor! The earth-eating, flatulent Mulch Diggums is my favorite character! I wonder who’ll be cast to play his part in the movie? hmmm
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This book is an outstanding introduction to humanism, covering the basics of the philosophy in a clear, straightforward manner. I suspect there a very few people who would disagree with the moral philosophy and ideas espoused in this book, except of course that humanism is not based at all on the supernatural or supernatural-based texts (such as the Bible). And while humanism is not atheist per se, for all intents and purposes, it reflects the fact that humanists don’t rely on invisible gods, and consider gods irrelevant in any case since humanists take full responsibility for their own lives and their own thinking. Quite inspirational!
I’m the author of a novel, Kaleidoscope, in which I explore similar themes in a fictional context.
Humanism as the Next
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This book should be a disgrace to Evangelical Christians. Wouldn’t hurt for others to be offended also. It is so unBiblical in it’s answers.
Shame on Oprah.
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