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Pitch perfect if you are looking for mindless entertainment, and nothing more taxing than turning pages.
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This scale is actually perfect. The screen is big and easy to read, its very accurate, and seems to be durable. It was a great buy. I would recommend it.
From Frontier To Plantation
Artemis Fowl captivated me with his outrageous schemes and high-tech skills. I really got hooked on the scary fight with an enraged troll and the dangerous actions of an earth-gulping dwarf. The novel moves at the pace of a video game, pinging between battles and secrets revealed. I especially enjoyed the high-tech fairies, with their futurist’s gadgets and cranky suspicions about humans. The novel is also appealing if you enjoy breaking codes and sarcastic dialogue. My favorite character is Foley, a centaur with a smart mouth and the inventive talents of a next-generation Gyro Gearloose. I was caught up in the jeopardy of the story and am definitely going to read the series. I found it intriguing to have such an ambiguous main character. Artemis is a shady criminal, with unashamed greed, yet he’s also a lost boy without anywhere to belong. It will be intriguing to see his personality evolve in the next book.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus
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Artemis Fowl is a genius and a criminal mastermind, plus he is 13. It all starts when Artemis hears about fairies. After a long search Artemis gets his hands on a Fairy Bible. With the help of his bodyguard Artemis captures a fairy, a police fairy. After the capture there came war between 3 humans and a fairy army, but it took place in his house. A great fantasy incorporated into modern times.
I think that Artemis Fowl is a brilliant book. I love how Eoin Colfer used technology with the fairies. He created a whole new image of fairies in my head after I started reading through it. I would definitely recommend this book to any one who likes fantasy. It might be a fantasy but it is also seems like science fiction at times, with all the fairy technology being so far advanced to anything we have today. It was a real page turner too. There was never really a dull moment in the book. Whenever Artemis thinks there is either a plan coming up or something must be going on, say a conflict. So whenever Artemis doesn’t think it settles down, but that is very rarely. Even though it was a good book the plot isn’t very believable. You don’t really hear of 13 year old boys being smarter than most adults, who is a criminal mastermind. If there was a civilization underground by now I also think that it would be discovered. Even though it was unbelievable I very much enjoyed the style of writing. I’m already a fan of fantasy, and to add futuristic items just really made me enjoy it. The best part is how he turned fairy terms we know of into something else like our leprechaun is actually LEPrecon, a retrieval team to get back fairies. Overall, if I could I would rate Artemis Fowl a 7 out of 5.
From the Inside Out
I can’t tell you how good it does my heart to find a band of young kids that embraces the powerful melodic hard rocking sound of yesteryear, and not in some cheap, gimmicky neo-ironic kind of way either (Darkness, I’m looking in your direction). Black Tide provides an electrifying breath of fresh air to the classic rock and metal sound. You can hear elements of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Scorpions, early Def Leppard, Guns n’ Roses and Skid Row in Black Tide’s sound, but it has an energy and edginess that keeps it from sounding dated.
2008’s Light from Above is Black Tide’s debut album (and on a major label, how does that happen in this day and age?). It’s also the best new release I’ve heard all year. It’s all wall to wall riffs, melodies, and solos that will make your jaw drop in amazement. Songs like Shockwave and Black Abyss will have you raising your fist for metal, and the rest of the album is just as impressive. The cover of Metallica’s Hit the Lights is an appropriate homage, as that was the song a young upstart Metallica used to gain exposure on the Metal Massacre, Vol. 1 compilation.
If you’ve spent the last 15 years wondering where the rock went, you MUST get this album. 30 and 40-something rock fans should eat this up like candy, but I want to stress that Black Tide is no nostalgia act. This is an amazingly tight and energetic rock band that younger punk/emo/whatevercore fans should find just as compelling.
PS – If you like what you hear, you’ll also want to check out some of the other up and coming bands that are bringing back real rock and metal, like Endeverafter, Airbourne, Fatal Smile, Wolf, Widow, and Icarus Witch.
Light From Above Explicit
Patrick Huyghe has put together an interesting book with “Columbus Was Last.” Each chapter deals with the possibility that a different civilization made landfall and, in some cases, thorough explorations of North and/or South America prior to Columbus in 1492. Though it is likely that not all of those mentioned did so (there are 17 chapters in the book), it is also likely that at least a few are accurate.
Huyghe provides as much evidence as he can muster for each possibility. And some of it seems to make sense. Pottery connections between different parts of the world, similar cultural practices, similar words for the same object, transplanted flora, etc. I am convinced that a few of the assertions are on the mark. But there are also a few chapters where the evidence seems sketchy at best.
Even so, it was interesting to read about them, whether you’re persuaded or not. It stands to reason that there had to be at least a few contacts with either Asia, Europe or Africa before 1492 or even 1000 (Vikings). Which ones you believe in are up to you!
Four stars. Good “revisionist” history!
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I tried leaving no stars for this book, because this book doesn’t deserve one, but it wouldn’t let me, so I was forced to leave one.
This book certainly is a sign of our times. It shocks me that parents would even think that this book would be an accurate account of what God would preach. All I can say is that any Christian knows better than to believe this garbage. By the looks of the ratings of this book, there isn’t too many Christians reading it and unfortunately, many, many young people are reading it believing it as truth. Very sad!
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