Artemis Fowl

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Michelle Apostolides" 
<michelleapostolides at l...> wrote:
> Anyone read/reading this ? Can anyone tell me what they think of 
this,
> please ?
> 
> Michelle

Put it this way; without HP's coattails, it would still have gotten 
published, but possibly only in UK/Ireland (the author's Irish).
    It's okay, but sort of overwhelming in it's okayness; the 
LEPrecon (don't ask) scenes occasionnally read like an episode 
of "Cops", but other than that it was....okay. Not HP, but not "Star 
Wars; The Glove of Darth Vader" either. Also, while Harry might have 
survived Americanization, Artemis isn't well-enough fleshed out to; 
without his Irish accent, he'd be like every other adult-in-a-kid's-
body ever barfed out by Hollywood.
   If you must get into a series born to marketing muscle, "The 
Seventh Tower" is much better; almost to the standard of author Garth 
Nix's other works (although the first book's a bit slow).