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You know, I first tried to read this book when it first came out and it offended me. Now all these years later, I picked volumes 1 and 2 up at my local library. Still feel the same way. There are so many wonderful sacred texts to read why would anyone waste their time with this? The real clincher for me came in volume two when he is discussing sex and children. And I quote: (Page 105)

” In some societies, parents couple in full view of their offspring-and what could give children a greater sense of the beauty and the wonder and the pure joy and the total okayness of the sexual expression of love than this?”

This simply outrages me. This guy is one sick puppy.
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Sara Gruen delivers a readable tale that’s a tad too formulaic to be fully engaging. In the same way that the narrator of the story insists from personal experience that it is impossible to carry enough water to slake an elephant’s thirst, I’d insist that this container doesn’t hold enough water to satisfy a serious reader.

Also noted: the description of animals and animal behaviors is approximately cartoony, and takes away from the whole.

On the flip side, it is an easy read that won’t occupy more than an evening and Gruen does offer up some fascinating historical details about old-style railroad circuses, which altogether comes off as plausibly true.
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I got the medium size Furminator for my cats after reading and researching the reviews. I used it and was impressed with all the fur that came out. Then I noticed that my cat looked somewhat bleached and realized that his coat was thinned out. he looks like one of those older ladies that tints her hair apricot but you can see the white roots below. My beautiful black cat now has a gray area on his flank where the fur is noticably thinner and rough from having the top fur removed. The Furminator doesn’t just remove dead hair, it generates more by breaking off the “good” fur. And the fur flies all over the place, sticks to the wall and the rug in puffy tuffs. I was happy with it at first but now I’m going to return it. My poor cat-boys’ coats look patchy, dull and worse than before.
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I am a sixth grader. I have recently read the book Artemis Fowl. It was written by Eoin Colfer. This book is about a 12 to 13 year old boy who tries to figure out the lives of Fairies and Sprites. He is a criminal mastermind. He has a buff bodyguard for a butler; Artemis calls him Butler. Butler’s sister, Julie, is a maid at Artmesis’ mansion. Artmeis lives in the mansion with his sick mother. Commander Root is the Captain of all the fairies. Holly Short is the best trained fairy of them all. Sprites are basically the same thing as fairies. Sprites and Fairies normally die at around the same age, 2500 years. Throughout this book, they mainly just introduce the main characters. Artmeis tries to catch Holly Short to find out information about important fairy files. He does catch Holly Short and finds out a lot more about fairies. Root almost fired Holly Short for telling Artmeis about the important information about the fairy files. Artmeis took Holly’s fairy dust. Little did he know, that particular dust was not just ordinary dust. This was “fairy magic” dust. The bottle that contains the magic, said that the dust could heal human beings. Artemis began thinking that this magic dust might be able to heal his sick mother…
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I recently bought this product for my Garmin Nuvi 765T gps. It works very well with it. It sits on my dashboard without moving at all. I would highly recommend it.
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Drop this stupid thing, and you are out $250 + $30 for the now useless cover. No repair. Mine fell off the be onto the floor about 24″ (I measured.) Now I have a $300 paperweight.

Now, get a used paperback book. Throw it across your back yard, can you read it still? Yeah.

This is simply NOT the way to read books. It is simply too FRAGILE for any kind of normal use. It literally fell off my bed, onto the floor, and now it doesn’t work.
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Artemis fowl was a fairly good book. there was action , adventure, and all that good stuff, but it was a little predictable. Artemis fowl wants the fairy gold, they get into a battle, and then, what’s next? The fairies get the gold back and Artemis stays alive with Butler. But the whole plot was great and I could even imagine the setting in my head. Overall, the whole story was good! Read “Artemis Fowl!!”
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I’m confused. Artemis Fowl is actually the antagonist of this story. How can the main character of a book be the antagonist? He is very un-likeable to the point where i almost put the book down. Here we have these good likeable fairy creatures and this spoiled rotten little boy just terrorizes them. I actually wanted him to die at the end. I think maybe this author got his priorities wrong when he developed this story. If the reader doesn’t like the main character, then there’s a problem. I will buy next book in this series and hope that Artemis becomes a bit more likeable. If i was still 12 years old and i saw Artemis on the
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I finally read this book after being prodding by friends and relatives. I had a feeling I wouldn’t like it, but I decided I would at least give it a fair shake by actually reading it.

I wish I hadn’t.

This book is just awful. This book is easily the worst book I’ve ever read. Aside from the obvious problems with this book that have been repeatedly stated here and elsewhere on the internet, there are 4 of my own I’d like to add.

1-This book says so much with saying so little. Meyer spends effort detailing minutia that no one could possibly care about. The first chapter of the book could have been reduced to a few pages. I don’t care how she unpacked or how she walked up the stairs. Verbiage, the verbiage is just cumbersome. Every other paragraph expresses some odd facial contortion or heart murmur. Where is the depth? Who is Bella Swan? Where/what is her inner dialog? What makes her tick? What are her strengths? I get it, she’s clumsy. (How many times does this have to be driven home?) I get it, she doesn’t like herself much. What else? How did she become so self loathing? How did she get to a point of falling in love with someone so easily, someone who treats her poorly? What about Edward? Who is he? What are his flaws? What are his weaknesses? I get it, he’s perfect at everything, he’s perfect looking, he’s perfect in every way, other than being a jerk to Bella. Why is he a jerk to her? Does the author think that disrespect and sexism is normal for a relationship?

2-Normally when I’m reading a book, even a book I don’t like much, I find myself sinking in. I become so absorbed by the story that I’m not even aware that I’m reading anymore. I sink in. I didn’t sink in at any point with Twilight. I never felt absorbed by this story. Each and every word I read I was aware that I was reading. It was tedious and boring, almost painful at times. There was no story to pull me in, nothing made me care. There was no plot, the characters are empty and vapid. Maybe I’m to
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