Broomsticks And Owls

by **James87** » Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:39:01am

Let me just say, before I am stoned, that I love HArry Potter, and the Artemis Fowl series is extremely different from Harry Potter for many reasons. Those reasons I won't go into deeply, as it may ruin the great storyytelling that oin COlfer does. The main difference is morals. HArry Potter is a good guy, loves to help people. Artemis Fowl is a manipulative, 12 year old genious who is a criminal, which is actually what makes the series so interesting. So are there any other fans here? Am I all alone?

by **Marcus Baker** » Tuesday 20 January 2004 1:38:11pm

Im sry, i havent read an Artemis Fowl book yet, but I will look into it.

by **Ferrus** » Wednesday 21 January 2004 8:48:28pm

Yessss!!!

I like artemis fowl!! :grin:

very diferent but great all the same...

by **harrylover** » Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:27:29am

i read the first book and i really liked it!! :grin:

by **kilamija** » Tuesday 17 February 2004 2:06:25pm

Yes, I read the three books and they're great! very interesting :grin:

by **Scellanis** » Tuesday 17 February 2004 4:43:32pm

yeah, i like artemis fowl, ive only read the first book, the only reason i got that is i brought it for the pretty shiny gold front cover, i really want the other two but i never get round to actually buying them....

by **Jotomicron** » Tuesday 17 February 2004 6:12:17pm

Never heard of... but sounds interestring. Do you have a site where they might have a breaf overview of the story, so I can see if I REALLY like IT or not?

by **Mint** » Saturday 21 February 2004 3:00:29am

Iam reading it right now! but becuase I dont have time - I've been reading it for past month and got throught 1/4 of the book :oops:

I started looking for it because Sonkem said it had pretty cover. And it did - I love sparkles!!! :circling:

Anyway, its a very good book (so far), Jotomicron just go to a book store and start reading it - see if u like it. Or go to amazon.com they have like 2-3 pages that u can read online.

by **Meg Boyd** » Saturday 28 February 2004 1:32:01am

I own and read the first book. I enjoyed it but I haven't read the others. Something about them is neat...I can't say they are my favorite but they are a good read.

by **paintballdecoy** » Saturday 28 February 2004 3:11:57am

I loved them, I little salvation while waiting between the HPs, I also took up the Midnight for Charlie Bone series, which are very good also.

by **Galateia** » Sunday 14 March 2004 6:07:23pm

First of all, Artemis is a name of Greek goddess, not god. What was Eoin Colfer thinking?

I have had the first two parts and I liked them first, but then I didn't know about Tolkien and Robin Hobb. There are much better books than Fowl's. Colfer's books are very boring and that whole theme is just so stupid and boring and not interesting. And I don't understand those technology-parts at all. I sold them to one of my friends for 10 euros.

by **fierce** » Monday 15 March 2004 10:16:45am

I got the Artemis Fowl books because everyone was comparing them to Harry Potter. I have to say though that they are no where near as good as HP... JK Rowling drew me into Harry's world, while I just felt like a confused outsider when reading Artemis Fowl. I never really felt I could empathise with the characters, or understand why they made the decisions they did. I felt the characters were not as easy to identify with as HP characters. I mean, they're both living in worlds so different to our own, but with HP I could still empathise, understand their feelings on a base level. I couldn't do that with Artemis Fowl.

BUT that said, those are just my feelings. I think that everyone enjoys different styles of writing, and they cross over with some authors.

But Eoin Colfer isn't the only one to use Artemis as a boys name, isn't that the name of the white cat in Sailor Moon?

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