false<![CDATA[The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255646916m/59268.jpg33412334Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny." If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him.
Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine. In British author Jonathan Stroud's excellent novel, the first of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, the story switches back and forth from Bartimaeus's first-person point of view to third-person narrative about Nathaniel. Here's the best part: Bartimaeus is absolutely hilarious, with a wit that snaps, crackles, and pops. His dryly sarcastic, irreverent asides spill out into copious footnotes that no one in his or her right mind would skip over. A sophisticated, suspenseful, brilliantly crafted, dead-funny book that will leave readers anxious for more. (Ages 11 to adult) <I>--Karin Snelson</I>1121748book92003The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy, #1)total:6704|5:2443|4:2623|3:1272|2:284|1:82|6704271738704952418falsefalseWed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Wed Aug 08 12:37:05 -0700 2007Fri Aug 10 08:10:58 -0700 2007
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56falsefalseThu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Sun Nov 18 18:19:34 -0800 2007Mon Feb 04 13:59:54 -0800 2008 It's tempting to compare the book to the Harry Potter series. Young boy. Magic. Sneaking around. Breaking the rules. Stern teachers. But the similarities really end there.
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43falsefalseSun May 11 20:29:18 -0700 2008Wed May 21 20:30:16 -0700 2008 Cerita ini berawal dari Nathaniel seorang bocah yang masih dalam tahap latihan sihir memanggil jin berumur 5000 tahun bernama Bartimaeus. Jin ini dipanggil untuk me...more...]]>
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the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, that's for sure. The story is not too complicated anyway, since it can be classified as children/pre-teen literature.
The main character is a 5000-year-old Djinni named Bartimaeus. The djinnis in this t...more...]]>
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More Info (Wikipedia): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amulet_of_Samarkand]
What I like most: Bartimaeus! The djinni character is the main reason why I was willing to keep up with the hundreds pages of the book. He's a bad-ass djinni that actually has a heart, and what makes him v...more...]]>
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21falsefalseThu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008Fri Feb 22 10:52:14 -0800 2008Thu Mar 06 14:31:56 -0800 2008 The main problem was that I disliked both of the main characters: one is a wily demon (Bartimaeus), and...more...]]>
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