{"id":14,"date":"2004-02-13T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:26:28","slug":"artemis-fowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14","title":{"rendered":"Artemis Fowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer<\/a><\/p>\n

Another children’s\/young adult book, and a pretty good one at that, although I didn’t find it quite as interesting as either Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials<\/i> or Garth Nix’s Sabriel<\/i>. It was still good, and I liked the fact that the protagonist is an antihero. Ostensibly, no good qualities, although the author does managed to sneak some in there.<\/p>\n

I particularly liked the way that the author, in the introduction and conclusion, goes out of his way to say what a bad person Artemis Fowl is, and how his actions can be taken in a way that is less altruistic than it may seem on the surface.<\/p>\n

I was, however, quite disgusted by the dwarves. I guess Eion Colfer really doesn’t like dwarves, as he makes them little better than Trolls. I was raised on Tolkein, and this is No Good. Ick.<\/p>\n

The characters are good, the story is interesting, and the writing is good. It’s a kid’s book, but it’s good, and well worth reading I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Another children’s\/young adult book, and a pretty good one at that, although I didn’t find it quite as interesting as either Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials or Garth Nix’s Sabriel. It was still good, and I liked the fact that the protagonist is an antihero. Ostensibly, no good qualities, although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-kids","category-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24075,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24075","url_meta":{"origin":14,"position":0},"title":"Confounding Oaths","author":"Michelle","date":"November 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Confounding Oaths (2024) Alexis Hall (Mortal Follies #2) Set in England in 1815. 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