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Great product as always from Microsoft. I love that I can put it on 3 computers! Thanks Microsoft.
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I first saw this on a shelf a couple years back and was intrigued by it but hadn’t picked it up to read it until my 8 year old insisted that it was an awesome story and that I’d love it. So, with him continually asking how I liked it, I read Artemis Fowl.

When asked by my wife about the plot, my best quick answer was that it is sort of an “evil Richie Rich carrying out a dastardly scheme against the world of fairies.” (For those unfamiliar with Richie Rich, he’s the super rich kid with tons of fun gadgets and crazy adventures to save his family/friends/world). In this case, the rich kid is 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, and his motives are less altruistic.

Style
The writing was well done. It was written very simply and straightforward which was good considering the audience. It was something that a young reader could pick up and push through without getting bogged down by the language. The writing and dialog was natural and flowed well. Overall, very nice.

I have only 2 gripes about the writing itself:
1. Numerical consistency. Specifically, the phrasing “[something happened:] in as many [amount of time:].” You’ve likely heard this phrase before…along the lines of “He fell on his butt three times in as many seconds.” Which means he fell on his butt 3 times in 3 seconds. Colfer uses this phrasing enough that it got distracting to me, especially the times when he used it without a good frame of reference or without numbers. I don’t have the text with me to provide an exact example…but the memory I have is something like “he passed out again in as many minutes.” The numerical reference “again” isn’t really concrete (can be alluded to as it being 2 since it’s the second time) and the timeframe mentioned didn’t fit based on everything that happened in between.
2. Swearing. This is a book presumably for an audience of young kids. Through the first ~2/3 of the book, the author introduced a fairy swear word and used it a handful of times. The word itself is meaningless an
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I am not a fan of vampires and werewolves, but I love this story! Words are written in a way that you feel as if you’re part of the story. Great characters, Fantastic visual!!!
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This is a fake apple ipod touch, unsure why it can br sold at the Amazon marketplace?
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The heart monitor reading is too small to read when you really want to control your activities. Distance measurement was OK. BUT, after 9 months it simply failed, the reset recommended by Garmin did not help, and their service offered to try and fix it for 79$! without shipping. This is an overpriced old technology. Buy a simple HRM, and wait for GPS to be more efficient and cheaper on cell phones.
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I brush my dog 2 times a week for about 10 minutes each. I have always used a “shedding blade” tool on my Lab and get handsful of hair. When the Furminator came out I had visions of getting out more hair in less time. That has not been the case for me. With the short comb teeth, I have to constantly clean out the comb, usually 2 or 3 sweeps and it’s full. After 10 minutes I really can’t say that the Furminator did any better, or as well as the shedding tool. In fact, the comb on the furminator feels a bit sharp to my dog, and I have to be very careful not to brush too aggressively, as I do with my other shedding tool, because my dog acts like it hurts her.
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We purchased the vacuum roughly 2 years ago after reading the Consumer Report that ranked it third, behind Kirby and another ridiculously expensive vacuum “system”… This is a really good vacuum without all the frills (ie, i don’t think that mine has a light…). It gets the cat hair well, and the original belt just broke a couple of days ago. This replaced the $150 vacuum that we got just a couple years before – we are much more pleased with this than the more expensive one.
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I read this book after being told by a friend that I was similar to the Holden Caulfield character of the book. At that time I was struggling in high school and my parents were mad at me about my poor grades. This was the perfect book to read at that time.

The book is narrated by a young failing student in a boarding school who runs off, stays in a creepy hotel with a prostitution business, he gets drunk at a bar, roams the city, goes to a movie, and runs back to his parent’s home. He has cool adventures and comments to the reader on his disenchantment with society. The book is a page turner. I couldn’t put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone who was deemed intelligent by their parents but struggled in school.
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