The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Sequence)

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We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I was expecting the conventional 'amighty demon filled with wrath bound to the courageous but challenged master' sort of thing but was rather taken aback by what I got. Bisa lihat mukanya pula :p Cocok sih, bengalnya dapet, chemistrynya dengan Nathaniel pun terlihat jelas. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Now, Stroud's magical rules, the key to success in the genre, are simple, spirits control magic, magicians control spirits.

Cool to see this in this format and I often don't like parts of drawings or colors found but this was top level. I must say that the fact this novel is considered a children's book surprised me because it is quite dark and gloomy in its atmosphere. This is a difficult book to rate: It was very well-written, with an intriguing plot and engaging wit.Short-listed for the British Book Awards, 2004; the WH Smith Teen Choice Award (UK) 2004; Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) 2005. Because kids and teens don´t like getting bored with bad writing, so everything has to be even more perfected than for older readers. This is a hilarious, fast-paced book about a world where many state governments are ruled by magicians. I don’t know when I will get to the second two books in the series, but I’m very much looking forward to it. Flitting between the perspective of the djinni and the magician, we see the story progress and see various moments from two very different points of view.

He has a big ego, he gets in trouble with his smart-Alec remarks, and he has great contempt for humans. In any case, I tell you this so you can evaluate my reaction to this graphic version of "The Amulet of Samarkand". The main problem was that I disliked both of the main characters: one is a wily demon (Bartimaeus), and the other is a 12-year-old kid who is way too smart for his own good (Nathaniel). Not surprisingly, this very intelligent boy can’t stand him but he likes his wife, whom he sees as a substitute mother of sort.The adventures of a young British wizard, but if Harry Potter were more ambitious and less patient with his bullies. While I imagine writing books can be hard for some people, writing a character like Bartimaeus must make Stroud love his job. With his cynical ironical comments and 'I don't care about anyone' attitude and yet he's the main protagonist who saves the day. After this, Bartimaeus, disguised as Lovelace's girlfriend Amanda, distracts Lovelace and allows Nathaniel to steal the amulet. The book and series are about power struggles in a magical dystopia centred in London, England, and feature a mix of current and ancient, secular and mythological themes.

This book had some ground to make up to begin with because after checking its copyright date, all I could think was, "It's a book. For those looking for a book in a similar vein to the Harry Potter series, this story of a young apprentice magician is a must read. The other strand gives us a different perspective on the characters and events but it is in the first person, from the point of view of the devious, superior and sarcastic otherworldly being Bartimaeus. Upon his presentation to the other magicians, Nathaniel (age 10 at the time) is interviewed by his later antagonist Simon Lovelace who dismisses Nathaniel's obvious powers for magic. A wonderful and thrilling urban fantasy with strong elements of eastern mythology and the supernatural.I'm presently reading "The Trials of Apollo" series, and while I'd planned to continue my journey through Rick Riordan audiobooks, I don't read the same author concurrently, it's too easy to get things mixed up. I have been on kind of a graphic novel kick lately, and one of my pulls has been comparing art choice and theme in graphic novel adaptations of familiar books. The reader gets fascinating glimpses of Bartimaeus's past and somewhat troubling hints about Nathaniel's future. Some of the footnotes are entertaining, but halfway through the book I was so sick of Bartimaeus’ self-satisfied, conceited remarks that I wanted to scream every time I saw a superscript.

Thank you to my Patrons: Filipe, Dave, Katrin, Frank, Sonja, Staci, Kat, Melissa, Derek, Tonya, Betsy, Mike, and Jen! So, I’ve done it a bit backwards, I read Lockwood and Co first, loved it and moved onto this which I also really enjoyed.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Nathaniel kills Schyler using magical firework-cubes, and he and Bartimaeus arrive at the conference of magicians. So, I figured the graphic novel would be a quick way to jog my memory and see if it was worth pursuing The Golem's Eye in audiobook form (because I listen to way too many audiobooks these days).