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Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (Alex and the Ironic Gentleman #1)

by Adrienne Kress (Goodreads Author)

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Now available in paperback--the first book in a magical new fantasy series. Often mistaken for a boy because of her hair, Alex Morningside discovers one of her teachers has a mysterious family secret which leads her to a pirate ship called "The Ironic Gentleman."

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published September 18th 2007 by Weinstein Books

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Jun 23, 2011 Nenangs rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventures, indonesian, works-of-translation

pinjaman dari nenny :)

sesungguhnya buku ini bisa mengasyikkan kalau saja saya tidak sangat terganggu dengan hal2 berikut:

1. jamannya membingungkan
buku ini latar setting waktunya nggak jelas. dari awal sudah terasa, ada yang aneh dengan kombinasi teknologi pada cerita ini. detil yang paling bikin terperangah adalah pada saat diceritakan penulis di kapal bajak laut itu menggunakan laptop. ya. laptop. apa yang aneh dengan laptop? well...saya yakin seyakin2nya, pada saat manusia membuat laptop, tekn...more pinjaman dari nenny :)

sesungguhnya buku ini bisa mengasyikkan kalau saja saya tidak sangat terganggu dengan hal2 berikut:

1. jamannya membingungkan
buku ini latar setting waktunya nggak jelas. dari awal sudah terasa, ada yang aneh dengan kombinasi teknologi pada cerita ini. detil yang paling bikin terperangah adalah pada saat diceritakan penulis di kapal bajak laut itu menggunakan laptop. ya. laptop. apa yang aneh dengan laptop? well...saya yakin seyakin2nya, pada saat manusia membuat laptop, teknologi yang bernama senapan mesin, kapal besi bermesin, radar, dan bermacam remeh temeh lainnya sudah jauh lebih dulu ditemukan. jadi, pada saat imajinasi romantis saya dimanjakan oleh cerita berlayar memburu bajak laut dengan kapal layar kayu, bajak laut bersenjatakan pedang, golok, tombak, trisula, halberd, & pistol pletok (yang maksimum cuma berisi 2 peluru), pertarungan pedang baik satu lawan satu ataupun keroyokan, semua jadi nggak match ketika saya teringat bahwa pada saat itu sudah ada laptop...damn!

2. kebanyakan detil ngga perlu
karena emang ngga penting, saya ngga inget apa aja detil2 yg saya maksud. yang pasti saya sering banget mikir "bagian cerita ini apa hubungannya sama kisah utamanya yah..", atau "eh, bagian ini kok ngga penting banget sih..." dsb.

3. unexplained things
yg ini terutama berkaitan sama para nenek perkumpulan putri blablabla yg dipimpin seorang poppy. entah bagaimana, ni kumpulan nenek2 ngga asik bisa ngikutin kemanapun si alex pergi. seolah2 punya homing device yg nempel ke alex & melakukan pelacakan lewat satelit. mengingat kebingungan teknologi pada no 1 diatas, yah jadi mungkin2 aja. trus hebatnya lagi, mereka ditangkap sedang mendayung kapal, setelah mencuri harta karun (yg banyaknya 5-6 peti besar) dari tangan para bajak laut. bagaimana caranya? ngga sempet diceritakan. pokoknya bisa. bayangkan gerombolan nenek2 5 orang, okey, salah satu dari mereka ridiculously strong, tapi teuteup aja nenek2 & sisanya ngga diceritain punya kelebihan apa gitu.
some things can be accepted without too much explanation. unfortunately, this book had too many things that need explanation.

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Oct 03, 2008 Linden rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: 5th Grade and up

Recommended to Linden by: The idea of an ironic gentleman in a kid's book roped me in.

This is a hard book to characterize for a couple of reasons. But, well, let me try.

The story has all the characteristics of a straight-forward adventure, set in the times of piracy and swordplay, about a girl (Alex) who attends a less-than inspiring private school, the Wigpowder-Steele Academy. The WSA is also the likely site of clues which will lead to a long-buried treasure. All the right ingredients.

Yet the author occasionally abandons her established context rather jarringly: the times of...more

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Dec 19, 2008 Keli rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: juvenile, tween, magical-realism, fantasy

This book had me hooked from the title. And it is indeed ironic, droll and, at times, frightening. Ten year old Alex (who is a girl though she's often mistaken for a boy)finds a treasure map and must save her sixth grade teacher from pirates and help him find the buried treasure that is his birthright. What ensues is a surreal journey, much in the style of Lewis Carrol, complete with kindly inn keepers, a train to nowhere and a musical number with jazz hands. Yes, I did say a jazz hands. With he...more

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May 05, 2013 Amira Kamelia sa'dya rated it 4 of 5 stars

IDENTITAS BUKU
Judul Buku : Alex and The Ironic Gentleman
Penulis : Adrienne Kress
Tahun Terbit : 2008
Penerbit : Weinstein Books, New York.
Terjemahan bahasa Indonesia
Penerjemah : Anggraini Novitasari
Penyunting/Editir : Arif Budi Nugroho
Penerbit : Dastan Books 2010
Cetakan 1 : Maret 2010
Jumlah Halaman : 312 Halaman
Kategori : Fiksi, Fantasi/petualangan
Sinopsis : Alex bernama lengkap Alexandra Morningside adalah anak perempuan berusia sepuluh setengan tahun. Kedua orang tuanya telah meninggal dunia, Al...more IDENTITAS BUKU
Judul Buku : Alex and The Ironic Gentleman
Penulis : Adrienne Kress
Tahun Terbit : 2008
Penerbit : Weinstein Books, New York.
Terjemahan bahasa Indonesia
Penerjemah : Anggraini Novitasari
Penyunting/Editir : Arif Budi Nugroho
Penerbit : Dastan Books 2010
Cetakan 1 : Maret 2010
Jumlah Halaman : 312 Halaman
Kategori : Fiksi, Fantasi/petualangan
Sinopsis : Alex bernama lengkap Alexandra Morningside adalah anak perempuan berusia sepuluh setengan tahun. Kedua orang tuanya telah meninggal dunia, Alex tinggal bersama pamannya. Tetapi kehidupannya berubah setelah mengenal Mr.Underwood, guru kelas enamnya yang sekaligus keturunan dari bajak laut terkenal infamous wigpowder yang mempunyai harta yang berlimpah yang terpendam.
Suatu hari, kawanan bajak laut Ironic Gentleman menculik Mr. Underwood untuk mencari tahu letak peta harta karun Wigpowder. Peristiwa ini menyebabkan paman Alex terbunuh, dan pada saat itu juga Alex sedang tidak berada dirumah. Alex pun berusaha menyelamatkan Mr. Underwood. Dalam perjalanannya, Alex harus menghadapi banyak rintangan yang mengejutkan. Alex anak yang cerdik dia mampu menghadapi semua itu, hingga Alex bertemu Kapten Magnanimous dan anak buahnya yang membantu pencarian Mr. Underwood.
Ditengah pelayaran kapal, pertempuran antara bajak laut Ironic Gentleman dan Kapten Magnanimous tak dapat terhindarkan. Alex diculik bajak laut Ironic Gentleman karena Kapten Steele (Kapten bajak laut Ironic Gentleman) mengetahui bahwa Alex mempunyai petanya.
Suasana di kapal Ironic Gentleman sangat menegangkan, Alex dipaksa Kapten Steele untuk mengakui bahwa dia mempunyai peta harta karun Wigpowder. Alex dijebloskan keruang tahanan bawah kapal dan saat itu juga Alex bertemu Mr. Underwood.
Perjalanan mencari harta karun dimulai bersama Kapten Steele dan anak buahnya, Alex dipaksa untuk memimpin perjalanan. Dengan kecerdasannya Alex dapat memecahkan kata kunci yang berada dalam peta, harta karun pun ditemukan. Menakjubkan, mereka menemukan 5 peti harta yang didalamnya penuh kilauan emas.
Lelahpun menghampiri mereka dan akhirnya mereka pun terlelap. Setelah terbangun mereka dikejutkan dengan hilangnya semua harta, Alex dituduh mencurinya. Alex harus dihukum mati namun, Mr. Underwood berhasil keluar dari tahanan dan melumpuhkan Kapten Steele dan anak buahnya.
Kelebihan: Novel ini banyak memberikan gambaran yang memberikan kesan imajinatif kepada para pembac, dan juga memberikan pesan-pesan kehidupan yang kuat dan dalam.
Kelemahan: Novel ini disampaikan denagn bahasa yang khas dan unik sehingga mudah diterima tetapi terkadang juga menggunakan bahasa yang tinggi sehingga pembaca perlu mengulan bacaan untuk dimengerti.
NAMA : AMIRA KAMELIA SA’DYA
KELAS : X-10
NO. ABSEN : 04
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Resensi Novel Alex And The Ironic Gentleman

Judul : Alex and the Ironic Gentleman: Petualangan mencariharta karun Wigpowder
Penulis : Adrienne Kress
Penerbit : Weitein Books, New York
Halaman :312 halaman
Tahun : 2008
Terjemahan Bahasa Indonesia Dastan Books 2010
Penerjemah: Anggraini Novita Sari

Buku ini mengisahkan seorang anak perempuan berumur sepuluh setengah tahun bernama Alexandra Morningside (Alex). Dia seorang yatim piatu karena kedua orangtuanya telah meninggal dan ia tinggal dengan pamannya....more Resensi Novel Alex And The Ironic Gentleman

Judul : Alex and the Ironic Gentleman: Petualangan mencariharta karun Wigpowder
Penulis : Adrienne Kress
Penerbit : Weitein Books, New York
Halaman :312 halaman
Tahun : 2008
Terjemahan Bahasa Indonesia Dastan Books 2010
Penerjemah: Anggraini Novita Sari

Buku ini mengisahkan seorang anak perempuan berumur sepuluh setengah tahun bernama Alexandra Morningside (Alex). Dia seorang yatim piatu karena kedua orangtuanya telah meninggal dan ia tinggal dengan pamannya. Pada Mulanya ia hanya seorang anak yang berumur sepuluh setengah tahun, namun hidupnya berubah setelah ia mengenal Mr. Underwood yang merupkan guruya di Akademi wigpowder-steele sekaligus keturunan bajak laut terkenal, Infamous Wigpouder.

Pada suatu hari kawanan bajak laut Ironic Gentleman yang kejam menculik sang guru guna mencari tahu dimana lokasi harta karun wigpowder yang merupakan harta leluhur dari Mr. Underwood. Peristiwa itu menyebabkan paman Alex terbunuh. Alexpun berusaha menyelamatkan Mr. Underwood. Di dalam perjalanannya alex menemukan banyak rintangan, namun ia juga mendapat bantuan dari Magnimous dan anak buahnya.

Perjalannya sangat panjang dan menegangkan ia menemui banyak orang baru dan berbagai macam karaketr yng berbeda- beda. pada akhirnya ia sampai di tempat tujuannya yaitu kapal dari Ironic Gentleman. Alex bertemu dengan Mr.Underwood di dalam tahanan. terjadi konflik yang menarik di dalam nya ia sempat mendapat tawaran menjadi anak buah dari kapten ironic gentleman yang ternyata seorang perempuan. ia berhasil menemukan harta dengan memecahkan kode yang terdapat pada peta yang berisi beberapa bait puisi yang membingungkannya. Tidak i duga, hartanya hilang dan dia di tuduh menyembunyikannya. ia dan gurunya melawan dan akhirnya memenangkan pertarungan. Mr. Underwoodpun selama dan hartanya ditemukan. Mereka meutuskan untuk menggunakan harta tersebut untuk membangun sekolah.

Ceritanya inspiratif dan juga imajinatif, persahabatan tidak mengenal usia. Alex rela mempertaruhkan nyawanya untuk menyelamatkan gurunya yang baru beberapa bulan ia kenal.

namun alur waktunya membingungkan pembaca seperti pada saat di kapal disebutkan seorang penulis di kapal bajak laut menggunakan laptop yang tidak sinkron dengan suasana pertarungan yang masih menggunakan senjata-snjata yang agak kuno.

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Ten-year-old orphan Alex lives with her uncle. A disillusioned sixth grade student at the classy Wigpowder-Steele Academy, she is bored with her classes, her teachers and her peers. When a new school year begins and Mr. Underwood is assigned to her homeroom, Alex begins to take note of exciting possibilities for learning. He makes lessons fun — and relevant to Alex’s interest in fencing and swashbuckling activities. After all, Mr. Underwood is a descendant of a famous pirate! What could be more...more

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Dec 08, 2012 Sophie rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is one of my "the age (what's its called... 9-12, OC old child, C child, Youth, uuhhh) under YA fiction(?") all time favourites. I can't exactly explain what I like about it, but I'll try, and I might succeed. I'll split it into three main reasons why I gave this book a five stars.

1. Narrator. (or just book in general) With. A. Personality. I am such a sucker for this. It happens a lot, and I'm such a sucker for it I can't differentiate the good ones from the bad. Their are different...more This book is one of my "the age (what's its called... 9-12, OC old child, C child, Youth, uuhhh) under YA fiction(?") all time favourites. I can't exactly explain what I like about it, but I'll try, and I might succeed. I'll split it into three main reasons why I gave this book a five stars.

1. Narrator. (or just book in general) With. A. Personality. I am such a sucker for this. It happens a lot, and I'm such a sucker for it I can't differentiate the good ones from the bad. Their are different kinds.
For example, (view spoiler)
^ This is not a spoiler as much as it is a ramble about other books.
SO yes personality. The narrator is humorous, great at foreshadowing, and so many other things. It's just so perfect when you feel like the narrator is talking to you in such a special tone, and its MASTERED in this book 100%. Maybe it's a turn off or annoyance for some people, but for me I just couldn't get enough. The way he/she introduces scenes, events characters is just so funny and intriguing, honestly I just.. (yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy)

2. 2. The characters: Ya it's a little out there, maybe a little cheesy, but the characters are just so funny. Most of them aren't you know, HA HA funny you said a knock knock joke, but there is something about the character in relation to their name, setting, exact point in the story that makes it really humorous. For example the titled character of the ironic gentlemen. They are ironic because they are not gentlemen. But that’s their name. It's a little post modern and very in your face, but the personality and dialogue and general " -ness" of the characters make the book very enjoyable to read. The author/narrator (because to me they are always one in the same) does a great job of describing the characters exactly how they are and need to be described. The character's use of sarcasm, idiocy, incompetence etc is just GOLD.

3. The mystery/plot/ whatever you want to call it. I can't really say anything more than I have ready said for the other two in context to the plot so I will try and keep this short. I like mysteries, and I like when they are kind of incorporated into adventures. I can't exactly remember the "OH" moment when reading this finding our something, but I'm pretty sure there is one. Just finding out stuff like (view spoiler) were great twists and of course, amazingly written by an amazing narrator. The action was just the right amount, and if I were to have one teeny tiny complaint or criticism, it's that the emotion near the end gets ridden over by the humour. I don't actually mind though, I like it. The plot was more driven by scenes than it was by overall plot, but it was well thought out and the little twists and bits of information made it great.

Sidenote on point one: I was reading a review for The Maze runner and the reviewer was saying how all the unnecessarily capitalized words were annoying and overdone. In The Maze Runner I didn't mind them, but in this book I absolutely loved them. It worked. Basically I love this book as a whole because of how well everything ( the randomness, humour, plot and characters included) worked so well with each other and worked so well as a story. (less)

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Mar 06, 2012 IndyPL Kids Book Blog rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, adventure

Alex has a happy life living with her Uncle at the top of his doorknob shop. Happy except for school, that is. Alex doesn’t like wearing a uniform with a skirt. She thinks her teachers are old and smell funny. The girls at her school are so concerned with how their hair looks they are ridiculous. Quite simply, Alex is bored out of her mind.

And then one day, everything changes. Alex gets a new teacher at school, Mr. Underwood. Mr. Underwood is interesting and funny and he teaches the kids how to...more

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Mar 10, 2011 J.M. Frey rated it 5 of 5 stars

You might be forgiven for thinking that Alex Morningside was a boy. For one thing, she wasn't. And for another thing, she didn't mind. This was because she had an Excellent Sense of Humour. And after all, it doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl, because everyone is just People.

Adrienne Kress delights with her first foray into fiction, providing a compelling and entertaining adventure story in which our heroine, Alex, must risk even trains, egotistical octopi, abandoned hotels, and extremely...more You might be forgiven for thinking that Alex Morningside was a boy. For one thing, she wasn't. And for another thing, she didn't mind. This was because she had an Excellent Sense of Humour. And after all, it doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl, because everyone is just People.

Adrienne Kress delights with her first foray into fiction, providing a compelling and entertaining adventure story in which our heroine, Alex, must risk even trains, egotistical octopi, abandoned hotels, and extremely polite pirates in order to rescue her sixth grade teacher, Mr. Underwood from the intimidating Captain Steele. Along the way she meets a very cranky cat, learns about the secret of the Wigpowder Treasure, and has many exciting adventures.

Kress is deft with wordplay and witticisms, and while set firmly within the middle grade oeuvre, it is clever enough to keep adults entertained as well. Kress' power lies in her vast imagination and her ability to create a story that is just as absurd and fantastical as anything that a child might tell, while still providing great moral lessons about respect, trust, and believing in oneself. It is also a fantastic send up of common middle grade adventure story tropes - for instance, it is common for absentee parents to exist in MG books, but Alex's are gone because they died while spelunking in Iceland!

Kress also provides an important lesson for her female fans - that just because you're a girl doesn't mean you can't buckle swashes with the boys.

Alex is an intelligent, capable, and clever heroine who would appeal to readers of any sort, and any age. The book has great forward momentum, and is nicely divided to make for perfect reading-at-bedtime or reading-before-recess chapters.

The worldbuilding is up there with Rowling's, and the language is lovely and fun.

I can't think of a better story for classrooms. A teacher friend has three copies she lends to students and she can't keep the things on the shelf.

Adrienne Kress is not only a delightful writer, but an entertaining, witty, energetic and intelligent speaker with professional theatre training. I have had the good fortune of watching her at work with children in writing and storytelling workshops and I can say that there is no better author to have for a school visit or to appear at your conference, convention, or festival.
Adrienne honestly and genuinely cares about sharing stories and the magic of storytelling with her audiences, and her swashbuckling workshops for kids is an utter hoot. I look forward to her forthcoming books eagerly.

The sequel book, TIMOTHY AND THE DRAGON'S GATE, is also stunning and fun and a great story about learning to take responsibility for oneself and the importance of cultural tolerance.
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Oct 12, 2009 Linnae rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: juvenile, fantasy-sci-fi

Alex Morningside lives with her uncle and helps him run his doorknob shop, when she's not in school, of course. She attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy for free, thanks to her uncle's connections, although she doesn't like it there most of the time. Then a new teacher comes along, a Mr. Underwood, who is young and different than all her other teachers. He detests P.E., so instead teaches them how to fence. He insists on correct grammar. He makes learning fun. He becomes very good fr...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Harold Ogle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of pirates, fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Shelves: pirates, children, contemporary, fantasy, orphan

This book felt quite strongly like a reaction to "A Series of Unfortunate Events." It has the same surreal quality of cavalier attitudes about danger to children, anachronistic settings/people/situations, and a chattily verbose narrator who likes to pontificate about vocabulary. Both are a bit like Mr. Rogers retelling the movie "Se7en" to children.

The book is mostly fun, with the protagonist Alex traipsing merrily from one adventure to the next, all in search of her 6th grade teacher who has be...more This book felt quite strongly like a reaction to "A Series of Unfortunate Events." It has the same surreal quality of cavalier attitudes about danger to children, anachronistic settings/people/situations, and a chattily verbose narrator who likes to pontificate about vocabulary. Both are a bit like Mr. Rogers retelling the movie "Se7en" to children.

The book is mostly fun, with the protagonist Alex traipsing merrily from one adventure to the next, all in search of her 6th grade teacher who has been kidnapped by pirates. She's amusingly pursued by a gaggle of octogenarian museum docents, resembling little so much as vindictive zombies. One imagines that Kress had one or more traumatic experiences caring for elderly relatives in her life, as so much detail is given to the horror of the old women's slimy cold touch, bad teeth, bulging eyes, and so forth. Similarly, Alex's attention to the alcoholic and how he behaves indicates a certain sensitivity to abuse at the hand of addicts. Neither Alex nor the narrator notices or comments on anyone else's behavior to the extent that she immediately notices how Coriander's drinking turns him mean and maudlin.

Unlike "A Series of Unfortunate Events," Alex and the Ironic Gentleman is extremely episodic...or perhaps you could say that they are similar in that respect, if only "A Series of Unfortunate Events" was condensed down into one book. I found it hard going, reading this comparatively short book, because there was little narrative impetus to move me as the reader forward from one place to the next. At several times in the book, I was reminded of Voltaire's Candide in this regard, or even Pilgrim's Progress. The succession of settings and characters was random and nonsensical; each was not at all connected to the one before it or the one after it. This is a minor issue for me, but it did strike me as unusual in the extreme: most children's adventure books like this one don't follow such dream-like logic. It diminished what was otherwise quite an enjoyable read.

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(view spoiler)[Alex starts out, living in a doorknob shop built into a bridge in a large cosmopolitan city. The tone and imagery is of Dickens' London, though clues throughout show us that it is actually modern day. Alex is blonde, small, and often mistaken for a boy. She doesn't get along with her peers and instead enjoys the company of her uncle, the geriatric doorknob merchant. Her uncle is on the school board for a prestigious school for rich kids - the Wigpowder-Steele Academy, so Alex gets to attend as well, even though they could never afford the tuition. There, starting sixth grade, she finds that the crone whom she was expecting to have teach her has been replaced by the affably daffy Mr. Underwood (a film adaptation would have him played by a young Hugh Grant or Colin Firth), who takes an immediate liking to Alex. They hit it off so well, in fact, that he begins to rely on her to help teach fencing to the rest of the class - a sport for which she has natural aptitude. Then when he is thrown out of his apartment, Mr. Underwood ends up becoming a lodger at the doorknob shop. There, he reveals his dark secret: he is actually the descendant of Captain Wigpowder, who with Captain Steele, amassed a gargantuan fortune through piracy hundreds of years earlier. Wigpowder used his portion of the treasure to found the Academy. He then hid the rest of the treasure and willed that it should be inherited by his son(s). But his second wife was greedy and kept the location of the treasure a secret, never releasing the map to the Wigpowder juniors. Steele squandered his fortune, and he and his descendants have been searching for the Wigpowder map ever since. Mr. Underwood is the last living male descendant of Captain Wigpowder, and he fears that the Steele gang is after him, even though he has no knowledge about the map. Alex goes off to investigate the Wigpowder Mansion (which has been turned into a museum) for clues. While there, she aggravates a group of ancient women who are the docents of the museum. Though she finds the map, she is caught by the docents. They detain her for breaking the rules (she crossed the velvet rope!) and visit a long series of devious punishments on her. She manages to escape their clutches, barely, and makes it back to the shop, only to find that Mr. Underwood has been kidnapped and her uncle killed by pirates looking for the map. She's left with nothing but Mr. Underwood's bicycle and the map. She determines that she must find Mr. Underwood to give him his birthright.

The next vignette is at the police station, where she undergoes another unpleasant interrogation before escaping. Now a fugitive, she bikes away to the train station to go to Port Cullis, the coastal city where
she hopes to learn more about where the pirates have gone.

The next episode starts with her at the train station, trying to get aboard the train for Port Cullis. An old man with a mop warns her not to board the first train, but she does. It's filled with pod people, who are vacant for one of two reasons: they've been drained of their souls by the evil mastermind aboard the train, or they've been imbibing the souls of others with the help of the evil mastermind. There is one other she meets: the cat, Giggles. The train seems to be in a time loop, and moves eternally round and round the line, without ever arriving anywhere. Alex endures several frenzied dinner parties in the dining car, followed by frenetic dancing with a live orchestra, followed by a few minutes' respite, then the whole sequence is repeated...though every time it is repeated, there is one less guest (because his/her soul has been drained). Alex escapes his clutches and, with Giggles' help, tricks him into being suffocated to death by the soulless zombies he's created. Then she restores their souls to the zombies and exits the train with Giggles stuffed into her backpack.

The next episode finds her and Giggles in the depths of the forest, far from civilization. She follows a string of overheard obscenities to find a film production. The director is furious, because his star, the Extremely Ginormous Octopus (a veiled reference to early monster movies, particularly "It Came from Beneath the Sea"), is busy demolishing a local pub. There are no roads, paths or thoroughfares in this deep, dark forest, but somehow both the film production and the pub manage to operate with no connection to the outside world. Alex talks to the Extremely Ginormous Octopus and convinces him and the director to work together, despite a rude interruption by the dogged docents of the Wigpowder Mansion. Alex flees the docents in terror, once again lost in the trackless forest.

The next episode finds Alex stumbling across a fancy five-star hotel in the midst of the wilderness. There she meets both a talking refrigerator and the owner of the hotel. The owner is convinced that everyone should be able to read his mind, and so nothing gets done because no one can communicate. Alex hits on the idea of manipulating his delusion into getting him to do what she wants, and so she organizes an expedition to Port Cullis, ostensibly to convince the City Council to extend a road to the hotel. Unfortunately, the docents track her down again, and she flees to Port Cullis on her own after the refrigerator helps in capturing the horrible old women.

At Port Cullis, she finds Coriander and Heather at the Gangrene Inn. At first, Coriander is a charming drunk, and Heather his friend and enabler, a proprietor of the Inn. They give Alex free room and board, and Alex entrusts them with the secret of the map. Heather carefully copies the map so that Alex will have a backup, and Alex later witnesses Coriander being belligerent and abusive with Heather. The next day, Alex leaves to find a ship; her plan is still to try to find Captain Steele and rescue Mr. Underwood.

The next interlude has her meeting and befriending Captain Magnanimous and the crew of his Imperial Navy ship. One of the crew is the attractive Francesca, who is a crackpot inventor character. Alex reveals the secret of the map to all of them, too, and they set sail. Alex immediately takes to the sea-going life and becomes adept at all shipboard activities. They arrive at a port where Captain Steele's ship was last seen, but Steele has already left - no one knows where.

The next interlude has Captain Steele appear on the Ironic Gentleman (her dreaded pirate ship), ambush Captain Magnanimous' ship, kidnap Alex, and sink the Navy vessel with all crew aboard (including Giggles). Alex meets all the freaks and monsters that constitute the crew of the Ironic Gentleman, including, finally, Captain Steele: a beautiful but merciless woman, just as obsessed with the Wigpowder fortune as all her ancestors.
Alex is thrown into the brig, where she has a brief interaction with Mr. Underwood, who is horrified that Alex is there and in danger. Alex resents this reaction, and that resentment fuels her decision to join Captain Steele and become a pirate (the only turn of events in the book that surprised me). Alex learns even more of the life at sea as a pirate, and they drop anchor at the island of the Wigpowder treasure.

The next part is about retrieving the treasure, and Alex begins to see that Captain Steele isn't the really nice lady she's been pretending to be. Captain Steele shoots two or three of her crew members dead with little or no provocation other than the Captain's paranoia. Alex reads the riddle on the map and solves the puzzle, finding the vast treasure for them all. They all lug the five huge treasure chests back to shore, where they pass out in exhaustion. While they sleep, the docents arrive and steal all the treasure. When the pirates awake, Captain Steele immediately suspects Alex of betraying her, and they take Alex back to the Ironic Gentleman under guard. There, she is about to be hideously tortured by a fake Doctor when Mr. Underwood escapes his cage, grabs a sword, and fights his way to the deck. The torturers leave Alex. Left alone with him, Alex is able to kill the faceless blind freak who has been chasing her since the beginning of the book. She takes his sword and rushes to the deck, joining in the sword fight. Mr. Underwood - Wigpowder's descendant - ends up killing Captain Steele just before Captain Magnanimous arrives with his ship (all his crew survived, even Giggles!) to capture all the living pirates.

Mr. Underwood adopts Alex, and they use a part of the treasure to convert the Ironic Gentleman to a ocean-going school, so that he can continue both being a teacher and swashbuckler. (hide spoiler)]

There's lots of excitement and adventure in this book, and it's quite funny in places as well.

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One last quibble: I generally don't pay much attention to the presentation of a book - I think that graphics, illustrations and font faces are more often distractions than enhancements to any volume that isn't a children's "picture book" - but I do feel strongly that a cover should reflect the contents of the book. That is to say, both the title and the illustration should have something to do with what happens in that book, and ideally something that happens early in the book, both so that the ending of the book isn't revealed by the title and the reader isn't distracted by wondering just what, exactly, "that" has to do with the book. In some respect, Alex and the Ironic Gentleman fails on both counts, though I would never alter a rating on a book based on its presentation. First, the Ironic Gentleman isn't mentioned for at least the first third of the book, and until it has been, the name is nonsensical. Second, the image on the cover shows a brunette girl wielding a sword on a ship at sea with a cat on her shoulder. This - having a picture on the cover that doesn't portray something actually in the book - is a big pet peeve of mine. First, Alex is blonde. Further, she doesn't get to sea until four-fifths of the way through the book, doesn't touch a sword at sea until she becomes a pirate (about nine-tenths of the way through the book), and never has a sword and Giggles at the same time (all the way through the book). Grr. This sort of thing is not at ALL unusual, of course, but it still rankles a bit, as it reeks of either carelessness or dishonesty on the part of the publisher. I feel for every author who's ever had a book published under his/her name that has such a dichotomy between cover and contents.(less)

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Apr 11, 2012 Ben rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Aug 10, 2010 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-grade, adventure

It’s rather difficult to bypass a book with such an enigmatic title as Canadian author Adrienne Kress’s debut novel Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (I do like to think that selecting books based on their titles is at least a step or two above purchasing them purely because of an alluring cover). The back cover copy hints at all manner of silliness, from swashbuckling pirates and treasure chests to strange societies and gregariously named heroes to sternly enforced grammatical pedantry. And somehow...more It’s rather difficult to bypass a book with such an enigmatic title as Canadian author Adrienne Kress’s debut novel Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (I do like to think that selecting books based on their titles is at least a step or two above purchasing them purely because of an alluring cover). The back cover copy hints at all manner of silliness, from swashbuckling pirates and treasure chests to strange societies and gregariously named heroes to sternly enforced grammatical pedantry. And somehow, this relatively slim little volume succeeds in delivering all of this and rather a bit more.

Ten-and-a-half-year-old Alex is quite the spunky lass. She has a fondness for learning (cf education, which is not necessarily the same thing), an obsession with dental hygiene, and a haircut that marries androgyny and atrocity. Yet it’s with utter indifference to the judgemental opinions of those around her that she merrily goes about doing her Own Thing and being her Own Person (such essential descriptive terms are frequently rendered in title case throughout the book, so do excuse my admittedly gauche efforts to get into character). Unfortunately, Alex’s life has long been a sort of insipid sepia when compared with her veritably technicolour personality: her school days are long and dreary and not in the least bit challenging, while her evenings, spent with her doorknob-philic uncle, offer little in the way of dramatic respite.

But, as is frequently the case with rollicking adventure stories, all of this is about to change. In a wonderful twist of fate, Alex shows up to school to find that her stale and much-loathed classroom teacher has been swapped out for the charismatic Mr Underwood, whose enthusiasm for such things as Fencing! and Noun/Verb Agreement! and Pirate Treasure! knows no bounds.

Oh, you caught that bit about the pirate treasure, did you? Well, title case will do that. Mr Underwood admits, rather sotto voce, to being the heir of a rather impressively extensive inheritance known as the Wigpowder treasure, and is back in town to claim at last what is rightfully his. Unfortunately, there’s the small matter of the notorious Pirate Steele, who sends in a fearsome trio of piratey scoundrels to put Mr Underwood to rather better use than educating the fine young minds of the country. (This rather better use entails sitting in the hold of the in-jokily named Ironic Gentleman, but I digress). Young Alex, suddenly without mentor, and even without uncle (her uncle is sadly promptly done away with during a burglary by the same motley trio, prompting questions of whether he might have been better off learning about door locks rather than doorknobs), decides she should probably save the day. And so she sets off in search of both the Wigpowder treasure and the MIA Mr Underwood.

Readers who are expecting a linear narrative should perhaps be forewarned. Alex and the Ironic Gentleman is an episodic book that takes all manner of liberties with narrative, so that a seemingly logical journey from A to B involves a detour via X, Y and Z (and in some cases, a few token letters from the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets). Poor Alex lurches through all manner of hilariously disparate situations that seem to appear out of nowhere and have little connection with each other. It’s as if Kress has pieced together a story from the remnants of a cut-up poetry exercise by William S Burroughs. A cut-up exercise involving material drawn from the nuttiest apogees of the minds of Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl. It shouldn’t work, really it shouldn’t, but almost all of it does. Kress’s writing is sort of like peanut butter and honey on toast: full of awkwardly sticky situations, but utterly wonderful. Her humour is unfettered and quite mad, and there’s a stream-of-consciousness approach to this novel that gives it a breathless exuberance that compels the reader to keep turning the pages. Clever wordplay (such as the truth behind the book’s title, which is a wonderful reveal that I’m a bit embarrassed to say surprised me, and which speaks quite a bit to the entrenched nature of gender norms in our culture) is used to develop all manner of absurdist situations, and Kress’s theatre and film background is clearly in evidence with her utter disregard for the fourth wall. (But rest assured that there’s nothing Brechtian here)

In truth, I have few gripes about this skittish and whimsical comedy, although readers who prefer a more traditionally plotted narrative might feel a touch of discomfort as Alex ricochets about from one situation to the next. It’s true that the book might have benefited from a slightly more deft hand during the editing stages—the opening chapters in particular are somewhat slow and unpolished in comparison with the rest of the book—and one can’t help feeling that certain scenes, such as the creepy perpetual train scene, are somewhat extraneous not only in terms of plot, but also in terms of tone. The inclusion of modern inventions such as laptops does seem a little jarringly anachronistic, too, as although the book is ostensibly set today, it very much has an old-world feel.

If my endorsement of the book isn’t enough, I’ll point to the fact that my boyfriend, whose reading material usually comprises software development manuals and the world news part of the newspaper, snatched Alex away from me (whilst I was trying to write this review, no less), and spent the night chortling his way through it.

Kress is a talented writer who is fabulously attuned to the middle years mind set, and I look forward to seeing what sort of zany waywardness her second novel brings to the literary table.(less)

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Apr 28, 2010 Truly rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Bukannya tidak setuju, tapi permalahannya adalah kenapa jika buku ini memang seperti yang diuraikan, kok bisa terletak diantara buku-buku yang hendak di swap dalam Acara Bookswap Akbar GRI di WBD 2010 yang lalu. Kemungkinannya hanya dua. Yang pertama memang buku ini sesuai dengan apa yang dijanjikan lalu ada yang berbaik hati membagi buku ini, atau isinya sangat jauh dari yang dijanjikan.

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Jan 10, 2010 Becky rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mg-fantasy

An enjoyable read, and a bit reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, which I appreciated. I was glad when the whimsical narrative settled down a bit, and laid of the wacky asides and Significant Capitals, because those aren’t devices I’m especially fond of. And I’m baffled as to what time period the book takes place in, as it’s got modern bits (movies, cars, etc) but much of it reads like Ye Olde Fashioned pirate stories. (Though that’s not a very important detail to be concerned about.) The cast of the b...more

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Apr 12, 2009 Tami rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Alex is in for the adventure of a lifetime. It would seem that her private school, Wigpowder- Steele was founded by a pirate, Wigpowder. He also left a secret treasure map for his son. His friend, Steele, a well respected man in the town, agreed to hold the map until the pirate’s son reached the age of consent.

Of course, things went horrible wrong. Over time, the map was lost. The descendent of the Wigpowder line became a well respected school teacher at the school and descendent of the Steele...more

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Oct 10, 2009 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

Extremely fun. My very favorite has to be Fenelle, the pirate scribe, who keeps a record of the crew's activities on her laptop. I love the voice of the narrator as well, especially the capitalization, which is of course a Very Good Thing to have.
In addition to wealth of self-contained humor, the book also uses its allusions to good effect, and though I picked up on many of them, I wish I were a bit more familiar with some of the references that I know must have been there.
My only disappointmen...more

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Apr 04, 2013 Corrina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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In a book filled with quirky characters, I have to say that the Extremely Ginormous Octopus is my favourite. The aging tentacled diva is a relic of the classic monster movie days, and he is insulted–INSULTED, sir!–that the director just wants to capture his motions for the monster in the movie. Isn’t he an Actor? Wasn’t he classically trained? Wasn’t he in twenty-one films? And now, to be reduced to a special effect! The shame! Thank goodne...more

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May 13, 2011 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

This probably rates 3.5 stars in my book. It is the story of a young girl Alex who discovers her 6th grade teacher is hunting for treasure and decides to rescue him when he gets kidnapped by pirates. It's an entertaining story and I like the writing style and the way things turn out in the end. The beginning grabbed my attention, but once Alex starts her quest to find the pirate ship, magical and ridiculous things start to happen - and some of it is just too ridiculous for my taste! I found myse...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Shannon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 05, 2011 Melissa rated it 2 of 5 stars

Quirky characters and far out adventure make this book very unexpected. I've read this a couple of years back and though it is nothing spectacular, I still remember the story for its oddity. Normal is not so normal here, situations tend to lurch sharply to the bizarre. Alex's adventure is a fusion of many things-- sort of weird science and crazy magic. I am at a loss how to explain this, so just think of these merger: Alice in Wonderland + What Dreams May Come (robin williams movie) + Big Fish (...more

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Feb 24, 2009 Rah~ri rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ridiculous.
Good.
Still surprised how a lot of the adult books i had read as a kid
were less adult that the kid books i now read as an adult?
Had a cute story to it, I like pirates.
Choppy sort of rhythm to the writing,
took getting used to for me.
I think i still just don't get some of it???
And am left wondering about the significance of characters,
or the reason for some of the things that happened in it?
Maybe i am just trying to read much more into it
than what is actually there in the first place?
If...more

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Apr 30, 2009 Naomi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: juvenalia, speculative

Why is this book amazing? Is it because it's hilarious and well written, like a Canadian Lemony Snicket? (Is Lemony Snicket Canadian?) Is it because it's full of awesome adventures? Is it because it has an kick-ass female protagonist but doesn't get all preachy about it? Is it because it's actually self-contained rather than leading to sequel after sequel, which eventually degrade in quality after the third or so book? (I'm looking at you, Rowling.) Is it because there's a guy named after one of...more

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Dec 18, 2009 Michelle Guffey rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really loved the writing style of this 9-10 year old fantasy novel. My boys and I listened on audio, and the reader was great, too. The plot was a mixed bag, fun premise, but not consistent for the age group. For example, there were things that you would expect for suspended disbelief of a 6 year old-like a talking octopus, mixed with good guys getting killed off and a creepy pirate with no eyes or ears that are better for a 10 year old. But my kids were enthralled, so I guess I would recommen...more

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Sep 02, 2010 Allison rated it 4 of 5 stars

The way this book is written is basically a mix of Lemony Snickett's and Lewis Carroll's styles, and I happen to enjoy both of those authors.
Like in Carroll's tales starring Alice, there are a lot of strange scenarios in the middle of the book that seem to be thrown in there just so Alex has some obstacles to overcome that don't really relate to the actual plot of the story. I enjoyed these "side quests" because they were random, clever, and imaginative, but other readers may get annoyed because...more

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Jan 18, 2010 Kelly Aley rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book would make an excellent read aloud for ages 8-12ish. Alex (a girl who is confused with a boy sometimes), sets out to rescue her kidnapped sixth grade teacher. He's been kidnapped for a treasure map which Alex has found. Each chapter is its own adventure. The book is nicely paced and the writing style is very LemonySnicketesque. The author talks to us (the audience) in asides a lot, but I like that. I have another Kress book on reserve at the library. I listened to this one and enjoyed...more

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Apr 03, 2010 Emily rated it 2 of 5 stars

I loved the characters in this book: Alex, Mr. Underwood, Giggles, etc. I just struggled through the mid section. Here we had the opening of a promising pirate adventure and then it was like the book had this very long tangent of a mid section. I know Alex had to have a difficult time getting to Port Cullis, but really the mid section had nothing to do with anything. I kept expecting those characters to pop up in the end since the author took such pains to flesh them out. The only consistent thi...more

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May 09, 2013 April marked it as didnotfinish

Shelves: audiobook, middlegrade

I was enjoying this story up until all the adults were shown to be really bad caricatures of actual people. They weren't realistic at all. A pack of evil grannies holding a 10 year old hostage during their relaxing stolen wine afternoon for hours in a closed museum? A modern police detective more interested in creating forms with ridiculous questions (Is your name Peter? If no fill in the word avocado and skip to question 3.) and asking other ridiculous questions than actually detecting. A polic...more

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Aug 18, 2011 Nur Fathiah Zahri rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Nur Fathiah by: Nobody

The story of Alex Morningside, an inquisitive ten-and-a-half-year-old girl who lives with her uncle above a doorknob shop. A student at the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy, Alex is often mistaken for a boy because of her bowl haircut, but that's okay -- she has an excellent sense of humor.

Alex hates Wigpowder-Steele because as much as she enjoys learning, she doesn't enjoy wearing a uniform with a skirt. She also doesn't enjoy her teachers, who are all very old and smell funny and don't se...more

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Feb 07, 2011 E.J. Knapp rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recently I finished Adrienne Kress’s Alex and the Ironic Gentleman. I don’t think this is a YA book, more like Middle Grade, or MG if you’re in the know about such things. Frankly, all these genres and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres confuse the hell out of me but I’m pretty sure Alex and the Ironic Gentleman is MG. For one thing, the protagonist is a ten and one half year old girl. I don’t think that quite qualifies as Young Adult. Maybe Old Child or Middle of the Road Child or Almost a Teenager...more Recently I finished Adrienne Kress’s Alex and the Ironic Gentleman. I don’t think this is a YA book, more like Middle Grade, or MG if you’re in the know about such things. Frankly, all these genres and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres confuse the hell out of me but I’m pretty sure Alex and the Ironic Gentleman is MG. For one thing, the protagonist is a ten and one half year old girl. I don’t think that quite qualifies as Young Adult. Maybe Old Child or Middle of the Road Child or Almost a Teenager But Not Quite but I haven’t, yet, heard of genres such as these. The other thing that leads me to classify it as MG is the story telling style which I will go on about later.

In a nutshell, so to speak, Alex and the Ironic Gentleman is the story of Alex Morningside and her 6th grade teacher Mr. Underwood. Mr. Underwood is the rightful heir of the Wigpowder fortune, a hidden pirate’s trove which no one knows the location of and which a competing family, the Steeles, are trying to claim as their own. Alex manages to find the map to the location but not before Mr. Underwood is kidnapped. The rest of the story details the adventure’s Alex encounters as she tries to rescue her beloved teacher and secure for him his rightful fortune.

‘Nuff said, as Stan Lee would say. Hey, you didn’t think I was going to give it all away, did you? Suffice it to say there are some wonderfully drawn out characters in this story and the adventures will tickle you silly.

I will say that I had a bit of a hard time getting into this book. Not because of the writing, to be sure. And certainly not because of the story. All that was quite impressive. It was the story telling style that threw me for a bit, one which I haven’t encountered in a very long time. That and, I suppose, the age of the protag. Hard to identify with a ten and a half year old when there’s a half century difference between she and thee. But once I opened myself to, and actually remembered, the wonder and joy of a life at its beginning, I really fell into this and found myself embracing fully the style Ms Kress uses to tell Alex’s tale. Trust me, you’ll love it.(less)

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Adrienne Kress is a Toronto born actor and author who loves to play make-believe. She also loves hot chocolate. And cheese. Not necessarily together.

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“ You would be forgiven for thinking Alex Morningside was a boy. In fact, she would be the first to laugh at this, because, for one thing, she wasn't, and for another, she had an Excellent Sense of Humour. It wasn't that she wanted to be a boy or anything, it was simply that she didn't see much difference in being treated as a girl or boy. Because, after all, everyone is just people.
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