I loved the new Alex Rider adventure, Ark Angel. In fact, the first thing I'll do after finishing this is add Mr. Horowitz's AR series on my favourites.
But sometimes I wonder if we'll ever see anything like a Roald Dahl again:
President (on radio): "This is the President of the United States of America."
Astronaut: "And this is the Wizard of Oz."
-- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
I rest my case. But Alex Rider is great--all the cool gadgets and big adventures of James Bond but without the sex and niggling paternity lawsuits Bond probably struggles with between saving the world from evil madmen. And does he ever check if his partners have sexually-transmitted diseases?
Ah, well. How realistic can Bond get, anyway? With the first AR book, Stormbreaker, made into a movie, what next? An Alex Rider computer game?
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