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| Title | : | The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Graphic Novel #1) |
| Author | : | Jonathan Stroud |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | November 2nd 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Young Adult. Comics. Fiction |
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Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 3.99 | 1255 Users | 119 Reviews
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This was intensely hilarious and intriguing and fabulous! I didn't feel like facing the 500+ pages of actual book, so I picked up the comic and....now I want to read the actual book. IT WAS HILARIOUS. It was a like an old English futuristic but proper magician story, where they enslaved demon/djinns and took apprentices. And there is an incredibly hilarious demon. DID I MENTION HOW FUNNY HE IS?
The whole apprentice idea has been done over and over and oooover, of course, and this was a little cliche. Nathaniel has a horrifically mean master, although the magician's wife is really nice (and the magician treats his wife like dirt which is really sucky) and Nathaniel's a very clever little magician but everyone just flicks him off for no reason. But he traps a major demon, Bartimaeus and uses him to get back at another mean magician. Aaaaand, it all goes downhill fast.
Bartimaeus is a sassy little thing. He can changes shapes and is constantly bopping back and forth from a fly to a lizard to an Egyptian boy to an old lady...or basically whatever fits the circumstance. He gets bound to Nathaniel and he knows Nathaniel's name which is a big NO NO for magicians.
I really loved the art! It told an awesome story and it was lively and the expressions were perfect.
I giggled quite a few times, it's just really hilarious. Who doesn't like a sassy demon?? I mean, yeah the plot was cliche and I wasn't at all astounded, but I thought it'd be a solid MG read. SO. I'm going to read the book. Eventually. Like. When I steal Time and have 294082 more hours in my day.
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| ISBN: | 1423111478 (ISBN13: 9781423111474) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Graphic Novel #1 |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 1255 Users | 119 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Graphic Novel #1)
This was intensely hilarious and intriguing and fabulous! I didn't feel like facing the 500+ pages of actual book, so I picked up the comic and....now I want to read the actual book. IT WAS HILARIOUS. It was a like an old English futuristic but proper magician story, where they enslaved demon/djinns and took apprentices. And there is an incredibly hilarious demon. DID I MENTION HOW FUNNY HE IS? The whole apprentice idea has been done over and over and oooover, of course, and this was a littlePicked this up almost at random at the library, for something to read while my toddler entertained herself. Ended up taking it home. I enjoyed it.
What starts out as a mission of revenge for magician in training John Mandrake (aka Nathaniel), soon becomes a race to save the entire British government from greedy magicians. Nathaniel's main servant in these dealings is the djinn Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus pretends to be nasty and crusty and eager to destroy his master at the first chance, but it soon becomes clear that Bartimaeus has a certain weak spot for humans with a conscience.I've had this sitting on my shelf waiting to be read for a
I admit, I only read the graphic novel adaptions of books I like to see what an artist would do with it. I don't take it seriously at all, and with this, that's a good thing.I know they were trying to keep it to one book, but I feel like too much was left out, too much was rushed. All the major, important events were kept, but most of Nathanial's story, and a lot of the fun, minor details got left out. For the sake of brevity, I suppose. It was, however, a fine enough book, more like a good
You know, I've tried but I have not become a huge fan of graphic novels. I enjoy the artwork, but generally speaking the stories aren't that well re-told. For example, when I read the first volume of the "Ender's Game" graphic, I thought they did a good job of re-telling the tale, but there was quite a bit of the essence of the story that was lost. And perhaps that's what people are looking for, the "Readers Digest" version of these books.In any case, I tell you this so you can evaluate my
It's been many many years since I read the original novel version of the story of Nathaniel and Bartimaeus, so I can't quite remember enough of the details to do a true comparison with this graphic novel edition. That being said, there are some really wonderful things and some really terrible things about this book on its own. The big benefit to presenting this novel in graphic format is that the illustrations add a lot of flavour to the story. If I remember correctly, there was plenty of this
it wasn't as funny as the book was, but it was pretty good!
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