Jayson’s Reviews > The Atlantis Complex > Status Update

Notes:
(1) Is Eoin Colfer's name pronounced "Ian" or "Owen"? I've heard it both ways in these audiobooks.
- I always thought it was the latter. Though, it probably varies by region and accent.
(2) Not in my top tier of books in the series. Still fun, but there's nothing that really elevates it past just being fun.
- Seems mostly an excuse to get all the surviving heroes together, for the first time, in the same book.

Notes:
(1) The biggest difficulty I've had with this book, and series in general, is wrapping my head around all the tech talk.
- As an audiobook, it's not as if I can linger on a line of text or stop for a second to connect the dots.
- Chapter 9 especially, I've done so much rewinding to hear things over.
- I usually listen to audiobooks at 1.50x speed or higher, but I've had to go at normal speed this whole series.

Notes:
(1) Foaly: "It seemed to me that Commander Trouble Kelp, aka your boyfriend, gave us the green light to investigate."
Holly: "First of all, he’s not my boyfriend—we went on one date."
- It's nice to know that Holly has a social life, though it seems her social circle is limited to her co-workers... and Artemis Fowl, of course.
- It's left ambiguous whether this date happened before or after he became her boss.

Notes:
(1) For some reason, the back half of this book features really long chapters. "Long" comparative to the rest of the series.
- From Chapter 7 onward, they're all around an hour or more (this being an audiobook).
(2) This was written before smart phones became ubiquitous, so hitherto unheard-of programs for your phone are called "mini-programs" or "mi-p" for short.
- Of course, nowadays they're known as "apps."

Notes:
(1) Parker's Mexican accent sounds decidedly Greek to me.
- I don't mean "Greek to me" the idiom, I mean it sounds like a Greek accent.
(2) Artemis gets concussed and develops a split personality named Orion.
- It's like something out of "Gilligan's Island," except instead of getting conked on the head with a coconut he gets blasted by a ray gun.
- Like Artemis, Orion's the name of a Greek mythological hunter.

Notes:
(1) The prologue is just a summary of the first two books, which I guess are the only books with necessary background info.
- Book 1 is the origin story and book 2 is how Artemis and Holly/LEP became friends. Everything else are just standalone adventures.
(2) Nothing subtle about Chapter 1. Artemis has severe OCD, which is drilled into your brain over and over again.
(3) Fairy Wikipedia is called Wicca-pedia.

Notes:
(1) This being strictly an audiobook reread of the series, I've skipped over "The Artemis Fowl Files," of which no audiobook was recorded.
- I mention this because, as I recall, it introduces this book's villain.
- A refresher would have been nice, though I'm not too fussed about it since reading the supplementary stories isn't required to understand this or any book in the series, which are fairly standalone.