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| #1 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | Anthony Horowitz is my favourite author. His Alex Rider books were excellent and his latest Power of Five series is really good. It has a more horror and magic based kind of style and they were great reads. And Necropolis, which will be released in October, promises to be even more horror based than any of his previous works.
What did you guys think of this series?
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| #2 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL
I love the alex rider series, but seriously, this made me want to cry. It doesn't even qualify as a horror series. I mean, sure, I collect the books and read them as soon as I get them, and it is good sometimes, but it seems, so predictabe at times, and it's certainly a "put-downable" book [ Admittedly, however, the second book did get me interested in the Nazca Lines ].
Sorry for hating your favourite book, sajeev, but I exect better from the author of a bestseller series. I hope you're right about Necropolis is scarier than the others (Necropolis means "death city" or something o.O)... Although Horowitz wouldn't have to try hard...
[ BTW, don't bother pointing out that it's for teenagers and kids, so it can't be too horrific. But Darren Shan's books are classed under the same category, and they're a lot more scary. ] |
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| #3 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | Everyone has their own opinion but I personally agree with you that the books were very lacking of horror even though they are considered horror novels. I hope that Necropolis will be more horror filled.
Other than that I really liked them. |
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| #4 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #3 by sajeev50 | Reply | I don't mind the book at times. But Nexus? I thought that was a cliché-ish name for a secret organisation above ht government...
And I never liked that Richard fella XD |
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| #5 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | The only part of the series that I found real putdownable would be the whole 10000 years ago section in Nightrise. That took like four chapters and most of it was quite boring. |
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| #6 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #5 by sajeev50 | Reply | | Yeah, I got a bit confused there... |
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| #7 Posted 4 months ago | Reply | Best series ever. Yeah I hated that part in Nightrise as well. They're trying to make a movie.
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| #8 Posted 4 months ago, in reply to post #7 by Namus | Reply | REALLY?!
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT! |
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| #9 Posted 4 months ago, in reply to post #7 by Namus | Reply | | Hopefully the movie won't fail as much as stormbreaker. |
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| #11 Posted 4 months ago | Reply | | But it was on wikipedia. |
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| #12 Posted 4 months ago, in reply to post #11 by Namus | Reply | | Doesn't mean it won't be crap. |
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| #14 Posted 4 months ago | Reply | that new chick has weather powers right?
if u didnt know that im not 100% sure
but it was kinda implied in that 10000 years ago crappy part right before the big battle |
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| #16 Posted 3 months ago | Reply | | I can't wait for the newest book. |
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| #17 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #16 by Namus | Reply | | Post censored by niknnik due to fail. |
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| #20 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #18 by sajeev50 | Reply | | Yes that book and the newest eragon one and charlie bone has a new book. |
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| #21 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #20 by Namus | Reply | | Charlie Bone? the Seventh has come out?! Crap! |
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| #22 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #21 by niknnik | Reply | | No it comes out September 1, 2008 |
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| #24 Posted 3 months ago, in reply to post #23 by niknnik | Reply | Yeah, Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock.Yay!  |
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| #27 Posted 3 months ago | Reply | | Brisinger is going to be good as well. |
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| #28 Posted 3 months ago | Reply | | It's going be amazing.. hopefully. |
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| #30 Posted 2 weeks ago | Reply | Charlie bone? i read the first 5 but after a while I got fed up of the childish writing style and the fact that she could knock out two books almost in a year. But if we go back to the power of five series, i agree that they aren't that scary, except the first one, which I thought was damn scary. After that I was like any other fantasy book, yet I'll still buy necropolis, I want to see how this ends. if there was a film, i think they'll ruin it like they did Stormbreaker. Really, it should be at least rated 15, considering the gory deaths in the raven's gate, yet the producer won't allow it.
I might read Horowitz's adult version of these books. I'm guessing you all know that these power of five books are a rewrite for teenagers of a series of books he wrote years ago, but only finished up to the fourth one? |
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