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Skulduggery Pleasant | 
 enlarge | Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 5223
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0007241623
EAN: 9780007241620
ASIN: 0007241623
Publication Date: September 3, 2007
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 For young and old! December 4, 2008
C. Bennett (South Wales, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Makes an ideal bedtime story. I read it for my two children aged 6 and 8.
They loved it, Skullduggery has become a firm favourite.
I have read many bedtimes stories to them over the years and as an adult I find some very boring, I've sometimes found bedtime reading such a chore, but not with this book! I also found myself really looking forward to their bedtime, and not for the obvious reasons! haha.
I can't wait until the next book, because its proved very hard to find anything as good to read since we finished reading "Playing with fire".
I would recommend buying this book!
 An average October 13, 2008
Mr. Patrick J. Tutty
There's only one word to describe this book - average.
This isn't a brilliant book, but then again it isn't really bad either. It's like getting on a rollercoaster only to discover that it doesn't go as fast as you first thought... Quirky lines and fun loving characters, with a half decent plot is what you should expect to see - if that's your kinda thing then by all means buy it. However if you prefer your books to be unique and have an overly interesting writing technique then i must confess that this book would not suit you... It's snappy and to the point, wastes no time in rushing us into the storyline, i got to the third chapter of the book - then i started to get bored.
Overall buy this if your just looking for an easy half decent read, if not then, really, and i mean really, don't buy it!
a super mega awesome incredible book of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! September 23, 2008
I thought it was an incredible book because of the vocabulary, the adventure. I really liked the main character and can't wait to read the second book!
A great TV show, but sadly it's a book... August 8, 2008
Edmund Prowe (Kent, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lively, energetic, occasionally funny book, but this is TV-written-down, and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' at that...
It's not exactly that there's much wrong with this book - it's an enjoyable, fairly absorbing read, perfect for keeping an eight-year-old quiet for a day - but it feels as if it's in the wrong medium. Derek Landy would be a great writer for a TV series('Buffy', 'Angel', 'Charmed', even 'Dr. Who'). He has a great ear for dialogue, especially the wisecrack, some great, vivid ideas, and an assured and compelling ability to sketch characters in only a few strokes. But sadly the book suffers from being a book: the special effects aren't as impressive as they should be, the fight sequences are long, uninventive and unimaginatively written, and there is nothing at all in the book that wouldn't work as well or better on TV. Second only to being dull - which this isn't - this is the worst crime a children's book can commit; we shouldn't be surprised that children prefer TV if the books we give them are only second-rate TV themselves. It's a great shame, because 'Skulduggery Pleasant' has some fantastic ideas, a nice (if unoriginal) premise, and strong central characters (although I notice, wearily, that the ubiquitous feisty young girl is making an another appearance). The writing style doesn't have much going for it, but there's not much to make you wince, and there's some genuinely laugh-aloud humour that would appeal both to adults and to children. But unfortunately my prevailing impression is of a book that's impatient with being a book, and of a writer who's more excited by film or TV than by books - which means it's a book of missed opportunities, striving after CGI and slick fight sequences, without any real interest in what, finally, should be at the heart of story-telling: good writing.
scary but excellent! June 11, 2008
J. Rowley
5 star*****
dont miss it!
once i read one page i always wanted to read the next
ITS SPOOOOOOOOKY!!!
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