I have just finished reading Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, and I am angry. Angry, angry, angry. The ending- well, not quite. The entire book had me feeling like I wanted to snap something in half, mainly whenever a certain character was mentioned/made an apperance. That character was Minerva Paradizo.
A few days ago, I was at my local bookstore. My mother said I could buy a book, so I was wandering around the Percy Jackson/Artemis Fowl display. (Gah! The Last Olympian was $15!) I had just finished Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, and was eager to get to the library to get The Lost Colony. I picked up the book to read the back, and when I got to the last sentence I put the book down as though it was on fire. The sentence was:
And she was only twelve years old...
I read an excerpt at the end of The Opal Deception, and Artemis was being pubescent and noticing girls all over the place, and my immediate reaction was to think: My goodness, this does not bode well. No, Artemis, no!
Guess what? As usual, I was right. Every time Minerva Paradizo spoke (mostly when she was mentioned by Artemis) I had to sit on my hands to avoid breaking something. A vase... a pencil... Minerva Paradizo's curly blonde head...
And at the end Butler said that she was pretty and sharp and could give Artemis a run for his money at chess....
NO. NO. NO.
And The Time Paradox is checked out of the library and I can't see if Minerva falls into a volcano to meet her fiery death! Is killed by Butler on Artemis's command! Is stabbed between the eyes with a paper clip! Better yet, I hope she doesn't show up at all. To some, she may be a decent character. I hate her.
[after several minutes of thought]
Guess what? As usual, I was right. Every time Minerva Paradizo spoke (mostly when she was mentioned by Artemis) I had to sit on my hands to avoid breaking something. A vase... a pencil... Minerva Paradizo's curly blonde head...
And at the end Butler said that she was pretty and sharp and could give Artemis a run for his money at chess....
NO. NO. NO.
And The Time Paradox is checked out of the library and I can't see if Minerva falls into a volcano to meet her fiery death! Is killed by Butler on Artemis's command! Is stabbed between the eyes with a paper clip! Better yet, I hope she doesn't show up at all. To some, she may be a decent character. I hate her.
[after several minutes of thought]
I suppose that's unfair. It's not her fault. Oh well. I can't control what happens, that's the good part.
Quote for Today, Wednesday, Because I Am Done With Makeup Quotes:
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
-Charles Caleb Colton
Awww, my 'orrible conscience is getting at me. I was going to read this even though I haven't even finished the third book, but I ended up simply reading the beginning and the quote.
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Curiousity didn't only kill the cat, it killed my conscience as well. That's right, I read it. And Minerva Paradizo isn't really that bad. She's quite amusing, in fact. (Not because of her quark joke.)
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