- Hörkassette
- Verlag: Collins Audio (4. März 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0007134797
- ISBN-13: 978-0007134793
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14 x 10 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.348.177 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones's most outrageous plots to her readers' hopes and fears" Publishers Weekly
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Diana Wynne Jones has been writing children's fantasy since 1973. This is about a Goon: a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there!
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Howard Sykes dachte, er hätte eine ganz normale (vielleicht ein wenig exzentrische) Familie. Doch eines Tages sitzt ein Mann in ihrer Küche und droht nicht wezugehen, bis er "Archers tausend" hat. Als Howard versucht herauszufinden, worum es geht, entdeckt er, daß die Stadt von sieben Zauberern regiert wird, die alle hinter "Archers tausend" her sind, obwohl sie zum Teil selbst nicht wissen, was sich dahinter verbirgt. Doch das ist nicht die einzige Entdeckung, die Howard macht...
Dieser Roman spielt in der Gegenwart, ist voller Witz und unvorhergesehener Wendungen.
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Howard Sykes thought he was a normal boy and his family was a normal family with a fault or two, when suddenly the Goon, "a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there", appears in the kitchen and wants Archer's two thousands. It turns out that there are seven wizards running the town, all of whom want the two thousand, although they don't really know themselves what for. What follows is a strange tale of many surprises.
Surprises are what you will get mostly with this book. They start on page one with the Goon appearing and they won't stop until you've read the last page. Midway through the book I thought there couldn't be much more, but I was proven wrong. Diana Wynne Jones' creativity seems to be infinite. It's funny to see how one person can have so many crazy ideas and still make them look plausible.
In contrast to her Chrestomancy series I found this book easier to read. There were several passages when I had to laugh out loud. I only grant four stars to this book, though, because while it was interesting to read, the first two thirds didn't grip me the way a 5-star-book does. I could easily have laid it aside, but fortunately I didn't. The twists of the last third more than made up for this. Additionally, I was disappointed that the book doesn't say to which use the two thousand are put. Right from the beginning I had hoped for it, but there wasn't really a word on it. That's what I missed.
But I still do recommend this book to Wynne Jones fans, though it also is worth a read if you've never had one of her books in your hand.
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How can this be? How CAN this be?
11. Dezember 1999
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This is one of Jones's best. With an incredibly surprising ending--and its anticlimax that is almost as good. One of the best and most captivating beginnings in existence. Incredible characters, from stubborn Quentin Sykes to the Goon himself to our minor but no less valuable and amusing Fifi. Awful is one of the best children I have ever read (the way she's portrayed, not the way she behaves) and Howard is an incredibly simple, yet complicated character.
DIANA WYNNE JONES IS ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORS IN EXISTENCE. READ ALL HER BOOKS--NO FOOLING< NO JOKING< NO LIES--THEN BUY THEM ALL--DITTO.
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A clever story filled with magic and realism
13. Juni 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I had been wanting to read Archer's Goon for quite some time, following my discovery of Jones' Chrestomanci series and generally feeling that she was my type of writer, something that hadn't been dispelled by the enjoyment of a couple of her other novels like Eight Days of Luke and Howl's Moving Castle (which, I believe, is soon to be a motion picture). But Archer's Goon had been originally published in 1984 and no one had seen fit to bring it back into print. I searched in vain at used book stores while at the same time refusing to pay for overpriced copies over the Internet.
Then J.K. Rowling happened (the analogy to a force of nature is intended), and young adult novels with magic in them have returned to the bestseller lists and the bookshelves. HarperCollins likely combed through their backlist to find this, and I'm glad they did, for it finally gave me an affordable chance to read this novel.
The anticipation was well worth it, too. The book starts immediately with the introduction of the Goon of the title (an oversized ogre of a man) crowding the Sykes household, which consists of the protagonist Howard, aged 13; his little sister Awful; their live-in sitter Fifi; their father Quentin, a writer; and their mother Catriona, a music teacher. Archer sent the Goon there to collect 2,000 words from Quentin, something that Archer...and Archer's brothers and sisters...believe is keeping them from ruling the world. Wait? What was that again?
Yes, Archer is a wizard, and so is the rest of his family. But none of them trust the others, although they've divided the town up into different areas that each of them "farm": for example, Shine controls crime, Torquil music, Dillian law and order, Erskine the sewers, and Archer controls electricity and gas. But one of them is keeping the others from branching out and controlling the world, and it has something to do with those 2,000 words that Howard's father Quentin provides every month. Unfortunately, Quentin refuses to write those words for any of those people--not wanting to help them take over the world--and the wizards begin causing all sorts of problems for the Sykes family very quickly.
The pleasure of Jones' books is how the magic is integrated as a natural part of her worlds. While the characters who aren't magicians still see the magic as surprising, they quickly come to accept and even understand it. In the context of a children's book, such ready acceptance of the irrational mirrors the arbitrary world around young people, which oftentimes seems, if not actually is, illogical: Why can't I stay out late? Why don't we ever see dad's brothers for holidays? Why don't we always let the answering machine answer the phone, even when we are here?
Archer's Goon has plenty of twists in it, as Howard and Awful learn more about the world around them, including how their parents react to each other and the two of them, not to mention the secret of the Goon. I recommend this one highly.
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Totally fun (and not outta print anymore!)
6. Februar 2004
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This book was way fun to read, full of humor, magic and character. Amazing to think that when Diana Wynne Jones wrote this even SHE didn't know what was going to happen.
Howard Sykes comes home one day to find a goon- a huge dirty guy, anyway- sitting in his kitchen, saying that he comes from Archer, and refusing to move until he gets the 2000 words Howard's father owes him.
But the words got misplaced by Fifi, a college student who stays at the Sykes's house. So Fifi, Howard and Howard's little sister, Awful (who can live up to her name at times) go to find it.
Well, one thing leads to another and they soon find out that the whole town is run by 7 wizards (who are all related).
For me to give you a play by play here would take too long, but if you're thinking of reading this or just looking for a great book to read, I HIGHLY recommend this.
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