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Post by greatfirebender456 on Oct 26, 2007 21:28:32 GMT -5
So, has anyone here read tis exellent series of books. Here's a summary! Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by English author Anthony Horowitz about a young spy named Alex Rider. Seven novels have been published to date. The first novel, Stormbreaker, was first released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted for a motion picture in 2006. The novels are published by Walker Books in the United Kingdom and by Puffin in the United States. Due to primarily being spy fiction, the series is compared to James Bond and Rider is often referred to as a youthful version.and the summary for the first book StormbreakerThe story opens with 14 year old orphan Alex Rider learning that his guardian and uncle, Ian Rider, has died in a car accident. Suspicious about the circumstances of his uncle's death, Alex decides to investigate himself and discovers that Ian was a spy, working for MI6. Alex is told that his uncle was investigating Herod Sayle, an Egyptian businessman and computer entrepreneur, who is donating a revolutionary computer system to every secondary school in the United Kingdom. MI6 forcibly recruit Alex to become a spy and place him in a gruelling SAS training camp before being moved onto Sayle's compound to investigate.[/]
Also here's the website Alexrider.com So who's read 'em or seen the movie. I love these books. Anthony Horowitz is amazing! His other series is Diamond Bros. Mysteries. They are okay...kinda.
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Post by Firework on Nov 7, 2007 20:13:39 GMT -5
I've read up to the 4th one but the series came across as so typical especially with the father thing that it made my eyes roll. The villains were as boring as heck and every book had to have that point where Alex is caught, the villain explains his evil plot then leaves Alex to some sort of trap, Alex escapes using a gadget, pursues the villain, and defeats the villain. How cliche- how Bond, though I suppose that was the point- make a teenage James Bond for the kids.
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Post by Reikeiki on Nov 15, 2007 18:06:16 GMT -5
First was good. Following were bad. The series summed up in six words. :3
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