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| Title | : | Archer's Goon |
| Author | : | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 324 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2003 by Greenwillow Books (first published April 9th 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens |
Diana Wynne Jones
Hardcover | Pages: 324 pages Rating: 4.07 | 4248 Users | 268 Reviews
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The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found the "goon" sitting in the kitchen. He said he'd been sent by Archer. But who was Archer? It had to do with the 2,000 words that Howard's author father had failed to deliver.It soon became clear not only that Archer wanted those words, but that his wizard siblings, Hathaway, Dillian, Shine, Torquil, Erskine, and Venturus, would also go to any lengths to get them.
Although each wizard ruled a section of the town, he or she was a prisoner in it. Each suspected that one of them held the secret behind the words, and that secret was the key to their freedom. Which one of them was it? The Sykes family become pawns in the wizards' fight to win their freedom, wrest control from one another, and fan out to rule the world.
Diana Wynne Jones skillfully guides the reader through a riveting, twisty plot, with satisfying surprises at every amazing turn. An exciting science fiction adventure where, happily, nothing is what it first seems to be.
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| Original Title: | Archer's Goon |
| ISBN: | 0060298898 (ISBN13: 9780060298890) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Howard Sykes |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1985) |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 4248 Users | 268 ReviewsEvaluate Epithetical Books Archer's Goon
Ahhh! Another DWJ book. I've owned this one for a while, sort of keeping it around as something extra special to anticipate. And all that anticipation was rewarded: This story is delightful. Now I want to read it again so I can better appreciate its complexity!Other reviewers have explained its brilliance--I won't try to repeat or compete.Just . . . read it and enjoy!I got this book from the library. The best part was that on the last page, someone had written neatly in pencil: "this book comes with free spider." A spider was evenly pressed between the pages. Seriously, this was the best part of the whole book.
REREAD July 14, 2016Rereading this aloud was so FUN. Doing the voices etc. for this crazy cast of characters was fabulous. I also loved reading it a second time because this time I actually understood what was going on, after all those mindbending plot-twists in the first reading. A.k.a. IT WAS EVEN BETTER THE SECOND TIME AND I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE.THIS IS THE BEST AND UTTERLY BRILLIANT AND MIND-BLOWINGLY UNIQUE AND I LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS AND I ADORE IT AND IT'S PERFECT.THAT IS ALL.
I don't have a favorite Diana Wynne Jones book; I have a cluster of five favorites and six more second-tier favorites. Of those top five, three were published consecutively, and Archer's Goon is the first of those. DWJ's sixteenth published book, Archer's Goon represents, with Howl's Moving Castle, the peak of the humorous writing that characterizes much of her 1980s period. The core is a strong, beautifully plotted story, but it's overlaid with so many funny bits that it isn't until you get to
I must have read this one for the first time back when I was in high school. I seem to remember reading it around the time just before or after Hexwood. I do believe that I liked it much better this time around, probably because I'm older and can appreciate the way that Jones writes such perfectly true to life disfunctional families in the midst of such wonderful fantasy. Some of my favorite moments in this book have to be when one of the characters is having a realization about their place in
I don't have a favorite Diana Wynne Jones book; I have a cluster of five favorites and six more second-tier favorites. Of those top five, three were published consecutively, and Archer's Goon is the first of those. DWJ's sixteenth published book, Archer's Goon represents, with Howl's Moving Castle, the peak of the humorous writing that characterizes much of her 1980s period. The core is a strong, beautifully plotted story, but it's overlaid with so many funny bits that it isn't until you get to
I've actually read this three or four times, but only recently started tracking my readings through Goodreads, sooooI needed a comfort read in transitioning back from being in the country of my heart - England - to my so-called life in the desert, so I turned to Diana and the book I think is definitely one of my very favorites of her books. We had an author spotlight on Diana Wynne Jones on our delightful literary tour through England, so I was itching to revisit one of my favorites. I had
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