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| The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 1156
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 1423108361
EAN: 9781423108368
ASIN: 1423108361
Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very very sad July 28, 2008
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
My family loves Artemis~! We were so disappointed with book. We have been loyal listeners - likely having listened to each of the books at least 10 times. My husband and I are teachers and we are always begging students to read these books - we even had a AF3 party! I miss Foaly's wit and Mulch's jokes. The delivery was off. AF5 was the very best and sadly this one was just painful to listen to.
 Book-great!, Audio CD-awful August 5, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
As mentioned by others, the audio version was just plain terrible. I really loved Nathaniel Parker's version, his voices, his pitch and pace, they were all right on. I knew each character by their (Mr. Parker's) voice, and his reading mirrored exactly what I thought the individual characters sounded like.
This guy? Needs lessons in reading for others. Not only does he dispense with Artemis' (and his father's) Irish accent, but every other character sounds exactly alike. If there weren't dialog tags at the end of sentences, I'd never know who spoke.
The purpose of the CD is to LISTEN to the characters, just have someone else read to me. If I wanted that, I'd tape myself.
As for the story itself, I miss certain aspects of the previous books, but yes, Artemis is growing up. I can accept that, even if the reason I first loved the stories was because of his cunning and craftiness.
What Happened July 22, 2008
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I love the Artemis Fowl series and this book brook my heart. He completelly forgot about characters he introduced in the end of book 5, then went on to fight the same villan for a 3rd time, just for her to do completelly uncharterist behaver and destroy the plots of 2 other books. He need to tell us things we dont already know. This isnt a new artemis fowl book its a bad prequal.
Good book but a let down after previous books in the series. July 19, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
While I would still consider this book good it was not nearly as good as the others in the series. One of the things that made this book less interesting was Artemis wasn't really himself, he didnt do any amazing plans he did not act all that smart until the end. I also was annoyed by the time limit, the time limit was explained by saying that when the characters went back in time they wouldnt be able to travel back to the present after 3 days because the magic would run out. Because of this all the events are crammed together making the book less enjoyable.
My final complaint and biggest contains a spoiler. Don't read the rest of the review if you have not read the book yet:
Ok the whole premise for the book makes no sense. Don't say I don't understand until you read this. Why does Artemis travel back in time? To save his mother from spelltropy. Now how did she get spelltropy? She didn't Opal comes into the future and fakes it. Now how does Opal come into the future if Artemis never needs to go into the past. She can't which means his mother would never have seemed to have Spelltropy and the book would have ended on page 5.
Another thing (sorry I know I said that the one above was the last.)
Ok so why does Artemis travel back in time? To get a lemur. Why does he need this lemur? To save his mother from "spelltropy" which she does not really have. Why do they think she has spelltropy? Because Opal came from the past into the future so that Artemis would steal a lemur for her. Who does Artemis steal this lemur from? Opal. Ok so she hired him to steal it from herself, if she had not she would've been able to keep the lemur.
Enjoyable but discontinuous July 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Colfer's plotting is in fine form as in other books in the series. It's as good as any other installment in terms of page-turning compulsiveness and interesting hijinks.
The 'discontinuous' aspect is that he seems to abandon a very obvious plot thread from the previous book with no explanation. It's as if a major plot thread from The Lost Colony never took place. In its place was a different plot thread that was (to me) not logical.
Spoiler ahead, as I get specific! Stop reading now if you like surprises.
Basically, the Minerva character from The Lost Colony disappears as if forgotten. Instead, we get an apparent romantic interaction between Holly and Artemis. While I admit when I first started reading AF that seemed the obvious way to go, after X books I had gotten the impression that their relationship was decidedly platonic by way of differing species, ages, heights, and personalities. It feels forced. Personally, I thought Minerva was well-drawn as a foil and a romantic peer. Especially the highly convenient age-equalizing trip to limbo. I kept thinking she would show up and do something interesting but, no. Not a single mention.
But, romance isn't what AF is about, so no real biggie. As far as devious plotting goes Artemis doesn't seem as sharp throughout the book until the end, but the endgame is great and kindof makes up for it. I'm not really a big fan of the ultimate villain, though.
Overall it's still a fun read and a worthy AF sequel.
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