There's a new Skulduggery Pleasant book out, and it is REALLY good. Holy crap.
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Steph L. - Sep 04, 2009 10:20:26 am PDT #9933 of 28547
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
DawnK - Sep 04, 2009 10:23:33 am PDT #9934 of 28547
giraffe mode
Ohh Steph that is good to hear. I just picked it up yesterday. I got my non-reading 13-year-old to read the first one and he loved it. He's just starting Playing With Fire so we'll see how it goes. I know what I'm doing for part of this weekend.. reading The Faceless Ones whee!
Steph L. - Sep 04, 2009 10:31:23 am PDT #9935 of 28547
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Holy crap. That's all I can say. I'm really surprised at what the author did, though in retrospect I can see where he's been building to Something Big.
I guess I thought that a "kids' book" (the flap says ages 8-12, and I'm not sure I'd let an 8- or 9-year-old read this) wouldn't make me go Holy crap!, but then I remember Harry Potter, et al., and it's a brave new world in kids' books.
Holy. Crap.
Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2009 10:36:18 am PDT #9936 of 28547
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have never heard of these books.
Steph L. - Sep 04, 2009 10:39:38 am PDT #9937 of 28547
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
P-C, you know how you and I end up liking a lot of the same things? Go, read them. When the first one came out (originally titled simply Skulduggery Pleasant, and has since been retitled Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients, I think because maybe the author didn't intend for it to be a series, and then when it became one, he needed a new title), a reviewer dubbed it a new genre -- screwball fantasy.
Skulduggery Pleasant is basically Remington Steele -- a witty, sharp-dressed detective. Who happens to be a 400-year-old living skeleton.
Steph L. - Sep 04, 2009 10:40:39 am PDT #9938 of 28547
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Check it out, in a comic strip synopsis: [link]
Frankenbuddha - Sep 04, 2009 10:46:52 am PDT #9939 of 28547
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I may have to get those. And for the love of all that is holy, somebody send those to Tim Burton.
Connie Neil - Sep 04, 2009 10:47:33 am PDT #9940 of 28547
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mmmm, Remington Steele . . .
Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2009 10:47:39 am PDT #9941 of 28547
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have added it to The List.
DawnK - Sep 04, 2009 10:51:51 am PDT #9942 of 28547
giraffe mode
They are really good. Like I said, the first one got my stuborn, non-reading son to read it all the way through and pick up the second one un-prodded.