Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3)
by Jonathan Stroudpublished
January 19th 2006
(first published 2005)
by Miramax Books
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Hardcover, 512 pages
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0786818611
(isbn13: 9780786818617)
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Three years have passed since the magician Nathaniel helped prevent a cataclysmic attack on London. Now an established member of the British Governmen...more
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Read in June, 2008
Bartimaeus, jin berusia 5000 thn yang harus menerima tindakan sewenang-wenangan masternya. Akibatnya, energinya semakin habis akibat terlalu lama ditahan di bumi. Ia jadi semakin lemah.
Nathaniel, sekarang sedang benar-benar naik daun sekaligus menambah musuhnya. Nathaniel telah sepenuhnya berubah menjadi John Mandrake yang tertutup, gila kerja, ketus, menyebalkan dan sewenang-wenang. 1
Mandrake dihadapkan pada konspirasi besar-besaran yang melibatkan penyihir berkuasa serta jin-jin paling...more
Nathaniel, sekarang sedang benar-benar naik daun sekaligus menambah musuhnya. Nathaniel telah sepenuhnya berubah menjadi John Mandrake yang tertutup, gila kerja, ketus, menyebalkan dan sewenang-wenang. 1
Mandrake dihadapkan pada konspirasi besar-besaran yang melibatkan penyihir berkuasa serta jin-jin paling...more
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Read in May, 2008
HAH??? HAH???? *masih terus membalik buku dengan ekspresi tidak percaya*
What the ****
ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!
Sial!Sial!Sial!!!!!
oh sh*T...
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What the ****
ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!
Sial!Sial!Sial!!!!!
oh sh*T...
(review menyusul, butuh waktu untuk menenangkan diri)
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A truly remarkable book, couldn't think of a better way to end this series. everything is wrapped up in this novel, more is learned about the mysterious fried of Bartimaeus, Ptolemy of ancient Egypt. Kitty is found as increasing her studies in magic just as she promised, and Nathaniel's hard work has paid off, getting him a high ranking position in the magic government. Sadly Bartimaeus is hardly in such luxury. Again recommended to magic lovers, and those with a little wit, and a taste for myst...more
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seru... seru... seru...
kesombongan dua makhluk ini, bartimaeus dan Nathaniel..
jin... dan manusia...
membuat buku ini sangat menarik.. sebagai anak sebelas tahun yang sudah bisa memanggil jin... (padahal itu biasanya hanya dapat dilakukan penyihir dewasa membuat nathaniel merasa pantas menyombongkan diri). bartimaeus dengan segala bualannya dengan kekuatan hebatnya.
petualangan mereka berdua sangat menarik terutam adengan kejadian2 di luar dugaan dan pertempuran seru dengan jin yang lebih...more
kesombongan dua makhluk ini, bartimaeus dan Nathaniel..
jin... dan manusia...
membuat buku ini sangat menarik.. sebagai anak sebelas tahun yang sudah bisa memanggil jin... (padahal itu biasanya hanya dapat dilakukan penyihir dewasa membuat nathaniel merasa pantas menyombongkan diri). bartimaeus dengan segala bualannya dengan kekuatan hebatnya.
petualangan mereka berdua sangat menarik terutam adengan kejadian2 di luar dugaan dan pertempuran seru dengan jin yang lebih...more
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Read in August, 2008
Final close to the series. Nice to have it at the end, but after the first one, it hasn't kept my interest as much. The first was a novel idea (written from the demon's perspective, with footnotes giving sarcastic and witty commentary), but got old with the second and this, the third, books. The story was moved along and this one was no different. Lots of trouble, destruction, etc. Wrapped up a lot of the loose ends (as required of a final book in a series), and while I applaud the lack of ...more
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lembar terakhir selesai dibaca.
Trilogi bartimaeus akhirnya selesai sudah.
Bukan bartymaeusnya yang berakhir, tapi .....
Akhir yang dramatis dan mengesankan. Pantas, karena demikianlah seharusnya a perfect fight ends. Makanya dibilang perfect, karena kedahsyatan pertempurannya (paling tidak itulah yang ingin digambarkan oleh Pengarangnya).
Dalam buku terakhirnya ini, Jonathan Stroud berhasil membuat kisah pembunuhan dan kematian seolah enteng saja. Mengingat banyaknya korban dalam buk...more
Trilogi bartimaeus akhirnya selesai sudah.
Bukan bartymaeusnya yang berakhir, tapi .....
Akhir yang dramatis dan mengesankan. Pantas, karena demikianlah seharusnya a perfect fight ends. Makanya dibilang perfect, karena kedahsyatan pertempurannya (paling tidak itulah yang ingin digambarkan oleh Pengarangnya).
Dalam buku terakhirnya ini, Jonathan Stroud berhasil membuat kisah pembunuhan dan kematian seolah enteng saja. Mengingat banyaknya korban dalam buk...more
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Read in June, 2008
The Bartimaeus Triology: Ptolemy’s Gate
Judul Indonesia: Gerbang Ptolemy
Penulis: Jonathan Stroud
Alih Bahasa: Poppy Damayanti Chusfani
Penerbit: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Cetakan I: September 2007
Tebal: 576 hlm
Mengikuti petualangan Bartimaeus sungguh melelahkan. Seperti Bartimaeus, saya juga membutuhkan jeda sejenak. Sehingga ketika petualangan berikutnya di Ptolemy’s Gate telah sampai di rak buku, saya memutuskan untuk membiarkan tak tersentuh. Saya yakin Bartimaeus membutuhkan ...more
Judul Indonesia: Gerbang Ptolemy
Penulis: Jonathan Stroud
Alih Bahasa: Poppy Damayanti Chusfani
Penerbit: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Cetakan I: September 2007
Tebal: 576 hlm
Mengikuti petualangan Bartimaeus sungguh melelahkan. Seperti Bartimaeus, saya juga membutuhkan jeda sejenak. Sehingga ketika petualangan berikutnya di Ptolemy’s Gate telah sampai di rak buku, saya memutuskan untuk membiarkan tak tersentuh. Saya yakin Bartimaeus membutuhkan ...more
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recommends it for: Most people that enjoy a good, long story.
recommends it for: Most people that enjoy a good, long story.
This book really didn't disapoint me, as many final books in a series do.
Unlike all the normal trilogies, with their happy endings, this story was a breath of fresh air.
Happy endings can get a little repetitive and I'm so glad that this triolgy ended with with a bang, not a sigh.
Firstly, the main character, my favourite character too, Nathaniel starts to become a little more decent and likable towards the end and it becomes obvious he fancies Kitty a bit, the lead female. Cliche', or so ...more
Unlike all the normal trilogies, with their happy endings, this story was a breath of fresh air.
Happy endings can get a little repetitive and I'm so glad that this triolgy ended with with a bang, not a sigh.
Firstly, the main character, my favourite character too, Nathaniel starts to become a little more decent and likable towards the end and it becomes obvious he fancies Kitty a bit, the lead female. Cliche', or so ...more
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Read in October, 2006
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The third book in this series, Ptolemy’s Gate is the final chapter in the story of the djinni Bartimaeus and his master Nathaniel, aka John Mandrake. Three years have passed since the end of the second book, and in that time Nathaniel has become more and more John Mandrake the magician, and less and less Nathaniel the person. He has also kept Bartimaeus around for far too long, two years without respite, and now the djinni is far from his best, weak and almost powerless, yet never without a sa...more
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Reviewed by K. Osborn Sullivan for TeensReadToo.com
He's back! But this time around, the smart-mouthed djinni, Bartimaeus, is exhausted from too much work and not enough time to recover in his netherworld home. It's like they always say, "All work and no play makes Bartimaeus a dull supernatural being." Although, in this case, he's anything but dull. He's tired, weak, sharp-tongued, homicidal, and insulting. But definitely not dull.
In this third installment of THE BARTIMAEUS TR...more
He's back! But this time around, the smart-mouthed djinni, Bartimaeus, is exhausted from too much work and not enough time to recover in his netherworld home. It's like they always say, "All work and no play makes Bartimaeus a dull supernatural being." Although, in this case, he's anything but dull. He's tired, weak, sharp-tongued, homicidal, and insulting. But definitely not dull.
In this third installment of THE BARTIMAEUS TR...more
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Read in March, 2008
ga salah kalo banyak yang bilang bahwa buku ketiga ini merupakan akhir yang sunggguh mengesankan untuk suatu trilogi.
jujur aja....sempat speechless setelah baca buku ini. awalnya aq sangka both of them still live or already death (Bart and Nath)...ternyata.... di saat terakhir Nath menjadi sangat keren :)
hahaha...keren...keren!!!! akhir yang sangat mengharukan!
(bener-bener tidak bisa nebak....mungkin karena kemampuanku terbatas kali ya... :P)
trus...walalupun buku ini tetap ngocol tetapi ...more
jujur aja....sempat speechless setelah baca buku ini. awalnya aq sangka both of them still live or already death (Bart and Nath)...ternyata.... di saat terakhir Nath menjadi sangat keren :)
hahaha...keren...keren!!!! akhir yang sangat mengharukan!
(bener-bener tidak bisa nebak....mungkin karena kemampuanku terbatas kali ya... :P)
trus...walalupun buku ini tetap ngocol tetapi ...more
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Read in January, 2006
This is a great ending to an excellent trilogy. I've said it before and I'm not ashamed to say it again: don't let the marketing towards the Young Adult bracket put you off; as an adult, and avid adult fantasy book reader, this trilogy could easily be considered for the shelves of the "adult" section too (which is where I found it in Australia, with, dare I say it, much better cover art). The language is quite sophisticated, which is great when mixed with engaging story-telling, in imp...more
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Read in December, 2005
PTOLEMY'S GATE - VG
Stroud, Jonathan - 3rd in series
***While Bartimaeus retains all of his wit and wisdom, his essence suffers severely from lack of rest. Nathaniel, now Information Minister, spends his time writing propaganda to bolster the common folks belief that England is winning its foreign wars and tracking down traitors within the government. Kitty Jones has gone into hiding, apprenticing herself to a magician and learning enough from her master and through research to summon Bartimae...more
Stroud, Jonathan - 3rd in series
***While Bartimaeus retains all of his wit and wisdom, his essence suffers severely from lack of rest. Nathaniel, now Information Minister, spends his time writing propaganda to bolster the common folks belief that England is winning its foreign wars and tracking down traitors within the government. Kitty Jones has gone into hiding, apprenticing herself to a magician and learning enough from her master and through research to summon Bartimae...more
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Read in September, 2007
Ptolemy's Gate was not lacking in action. It also had a fair amount of discussion about slavery, freedom, and trust. Then there was a scene that made me think Mr. Stroud did too many drugs in college, but it was interesting and existentialist nonetheless...not bad.
THEN... well I don't want to put a spoiler in here so let me say it all ends with that disgruntled and achey sense of having unwittingly read a Shakespeare tragedy. Yes, there was heroic redemption. Yes, there was mortal sacr...more
THEN... well I don't want to put a spoiler in here so let me say it all ends with that disgruntled and achey sense of having unwittingly read a Shakespeare tragedy. Yes, there was heroic redemption. Yes, there was mortal sacr...more
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Read in February, 2008
This final installment of Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy is another great adventure fantasy novel. It didn't quite live up to the second book in the series, but it effectively grapples with the issues that the previous books raise about class prejudice, pride, and ultimately the possibility of compassion for those different from ones self. The same three characters return: the magician and government minister, Nataniel; the commoner and resistance member, Kitty; and the djinni, Bartimaeu...more
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Read in July, 2008
There a lot of build up in this book, build up that plain lacked action. For a while I could only think, "how uncharacteristic for the series." Later I found out that even though I was nearly 1000 pages into the series at the outset of book three, Stroud had so much story telling to get through before he could begin the action. What with Ptolemy's story, Kitty's past three years (quite busy she had been), Mandrake's rise to (near) the top, a war abroad, the "other place," ...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
people with time to kill
The human world and the demon world are at odds, one enslaved by the other, that's the premise of this entire series. It's a good premise, each book relies on it while developing it's own distinct storyline. In many ways it's similar to other books in this genre (the teenage magical/wizardy genre that I'm fast becoming an expert in) -- interesting, entertaining stories with social/political commentary if you're willing to look beyond the surface-y stuff. The one striking different is that thr...more
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Unfortunately, the 3rd & last one I liked the least. Kitty gets increasingly on my nerves & several turns I just don't buy into. I would've hoped for a better conclusion of the story. However, Nathaniel's development is in line with the first two books & comes together very well. Bartimaeus never disappoints.
2 1/2 stars would be appropriate.
2 1/2 stars would be appropriate.
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Read in January, 2008
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My daughter and husbandrecommends it for: YA and Adult Fantasy readers
Ptolemy's Gate delivered what I'd hoped for and more following my reading of The Golem's Eye. There is little that I can write that won't give away key plot and character developments, but Stroud crafted a very moving, rich story with complex, not always sympathetic, main characters. It's rather too bad that this is classified as a Young Adult fantasy book because it deserves a broader reading for the issues of free will, responsibility, friendship, equality, and more that it weave...more
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Read in June, 2008
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