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Moving on through the collected works of Eoin Colfer
I have been reading SO MUCH the last few months. Almost a book a day. Well, a book every two or three days, at least. I keep meaning to make a post about the books I've read lately, but then I get distracted by another book instead. (Look! Shiny!)
Anyway, so I finished the Artemis Fowl series, which continues to push my buttons like whoa, and then, since I'm in the mood for YA now, moved on to another of Colfer's books, Half Moon Investigations. This one reads a little younger even than the AF series, but hits some of the same buttons -- one of Colfer's favorite themes is obviously "enemies are forced to work together and learn to see each other in a different light", which is fine with me, considering that it's one of mine too. :D In this case, the school nerd and the school bully/bad kid have to team up to solve a crime that implicates them both.
It was also apparently turned into a one-season BBC series. It's completely unavailable anywhere on this side of the pond, but someone uploaded it in chunks to Youtube ... and then Youtube, being Youtube, disabled the audio on some (but not most) of the installments. I discovered, though, that if you download them through something like keepvid, the audio works fine ... which hasn't been the case with some things I've tried it on in the past, but WHATEVER, Youtube. Anyway, it's rather adorable. I didn't watch tween shows even when I was a tween, but I guess I'm far enough past it now to view it as a peek into a different subculture rather than something that reminds me uncomfortably of memories I'd rather not recall. The kids are really cute and -- since both the book and the show are set in an Irish school -- the accents are nice to listen to. The show changes a few things, particularly the addition of a third major character, a girl reporter for the school paper who joins the boys in their adventures. I like her a lot, and it changes the dynamic of the show from "boys doing stuff" to "group of kid friends palling around together", which I like. The show is also a lot fluffier than the book (which is -- not surprisingly for Eoin Colfer -- pretty dark and violent in places).
It's not fantastic quality TV, but it's very cute.
You can find it by searching "half moon investigations" on Youtube if you're interested. The first two parts are audio-disabled (though, like I said, you can get around it if you want) and then it works fine on part 3, which is the last third of the first episode.
Anyway, so I finished the Artemis Fowl series, which continues to push my buttons like whoa, and then, since I'm in the mood for YA now, moved on to another of Colfer's books, Half Moon Investigations. This one reads a little younger even than the AF series, but hits some of the same buttons -- one of Colfer's favorite themes is obviously "enemies are forced to work together and learn to see each other in a different light", which is fine with me, considering that it's one of mine too. :D In this case, the school nerd and the school bully/bad kid have to team up to solve a crime that implicates them both.
It was also apparently turned into a one-season BBC series. It's completely unavailable anywhere on this side of the pond, but someone uploaded it in chunks to Youtube ... and then Youtube, being Youtube, disabled the audio on some (but not most) of the installments. I discovered, though, that if you download them through something like keepvid, the audio works fine ... which hasn't been the case with some things I've tried it on in the past, but WHATEVER, Youtube. Anyway, it's rather adorable. I didn't watch tween shows even when I was a tween, but I guess I'm far enough past it now to view it as a peek into a different subculture rather than something that reminds me uncomfortably of memories I'd rather not recall. The kids are really cute and -- since both the book and the show are set in an Irish school -- the accents are nice to listen to. The show changes a few things, particularly the addition of a third major character, a girl reporter for the school paper who joins the boys in their adventures. I like her a lot, and it changes the dynamic of the show from "boys doing stuff" to "group of kid friends palling around together", which I like. The show is also a lot fluffier than the book (which is -- not surprisingly for Eoin Colfer -- pretty dark and violent in places).
It's not fantastic quality TV, but it's very cute.
You can find it by searching "half moon investigations" on Youtube if you're interested. The first two parts are audio-disabled (though, like I said, you can get around it if you want) and then it works fine on part 3, which is the last third of the first episode.