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And Another Thing
A continuation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
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5/2012
Artemis Fowl
12-year-old Aretemis plans to steal the Elves gold using modern technology, to restore his criminal family's fortune. Clever!
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7/2002
Artemis Fowl : The lost colony
Artemis and Holly have dealing with the 8th family of fairies, AND, Artemis meets a girl as smart as him, probably. Read again in 2009, by misteak.
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8/2009
Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident
The world's youngest arch-ciminal genius is now 13. He finds out his father is being held for ransom, and in the Lower Elements the goblins are revolting. Enjoyably clever!
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7/2002
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
The boy criminal has to get the technology he stole back from the fiend who stole it from him, to save the fairy land from being discovered. Very good.
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6/2003
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Artemis and Holly match wits against Opal again.
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5/2005
Benny And Omar
Benny's Da is transferred to Tunesia. Benny misses Ireland, and hurling, but makes a friend in Omar, a poor local. Tramatic events ensue.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Rider To The Sea (pg.247) -- An Irish play by John Millington Synge.
Hurley (pg. 2) -- Stick used in the Irish game of Hurling.
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He was of the Father Barry school of coaching, where nothing good ever came of encouragement. Fear of consequences was the only way to make a young chap learn. (pg. 142)Read:
12/2008
Half Moon Investigations
An Irish boy with a badge investigates thefts at his school.
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9/2012
The Supernaturalist
Nifty science fiction story. Cosmo gets zapped and gets the ability to see blue creatures that seem to be sucking the life out of people!
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3/2008
The Wish List
A bad girl dies and has do some good deed to avoid going to the bad place. Read 3/2005
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3/2005
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Revolutionary War story about Tim who admires his older brother who has joined the army.
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5/2010
Is Paris Burning?
Hitler wanted Paris destroyed, this book shows how chance and decisions, and even non-decisions, thwarted the German leader's desire.
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8/2007
A Killing In Comics
A P.I. investigates the murder of a comic bigshot. Boy, a lot of the names sound vaguely familiar. Wonder Guy?
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9/2023
Quarry
Quarry is a hitman. After completing a hit he finds that someone had killed his partner and stolen their money. He decides to find out who it was. First book in the series.
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9/2023
Quarry In The Middle
Quarry goes on a job to some disreputable town on the Mississippi River to make a bit of money. I didn't see anything coming of what happened. I especially liked the ending.
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Four girls in lots of makeup and with a plentitude of high feathered hair and a modicum of spandex dress were at a table smoking and staring at nothing, unless maybe they were playing invisible cards. They had drinks in tumblers that might have been whiskey but probably were tea. They looked like prom queens, if this were prom night in Hades, which it kind of was. --I had to look up modicum, and I should have looked up plentitude.Quote:
I headed upstream. Never had much experience with motorboats, but I was getting the hang of it. -- In context, YIKES!Read:
9/2023
Quarry's Blood
Some author shows up to interview Quarry, and some other day some hit guys show up to off him, so then he goes off to find out who they are, teams up with the author, and makes a surprising discovery.
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I gave the purse back to her, with the little Browning inside. Immediately she dug her hand in there and, thinking I'd misjudged the situation, I slipped my hand behind me to the coolness of the Browning grip. -- I thought she had a "Baby Glock" in there, as he put it earlier. Read:
9/2023
Quarry's Choice
Quarry ends up in Biloxi killing everyone, it seems like, and getting beat up a lot. Boy, I can read two of these a day!
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..."Do somthin' else."
"Yeah, like what"
She shrugged. "Buy my own strip bar, maybe."
That was the problem, living in a particular bubble: you only saw the possibilities inside that were particular bubble.Read:
9/2023
Quarry's Ex
Quarry accidently runs into his ex-wife while on the job in Nevada.
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My general policy was no sex on the job. Too distracting. Fortunately, I was completely inconsistent on this point.Read:
9/2023
The First Quarry
Quarry's first job, eliminating a college professor.
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The pie was in fact excellent, a thin crust with a lot of tomato sauce and just the right amount of mozzarella and seemed to me just about the best pizza ever, although you should factor in that I'd been living on Slim Jims, beef jerky and Hostess cupcakes.Read:
9/2023
The Last Quarry
Quarry is assigned to hit a librarian. Why?
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"Okay," I said, and we shook hands.
Goddamn I was glad I hadn't killed him...Read:
9/2023
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