Point Blanc (Audio Book) - Anthony Horowitz (Eagle Strike - Anthony Horowitz)

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Product:	Eagle Strike - Anthony Horowitz
Date:	11/09/04 (1957 review reads)
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Advantages: Can listen to in the car., 5 CD's in one box, Great story

Disadvantages: None

This is a review on the book Point Blanc, but I have put it into the wrong section and can't figure out to remove it and put it where it should be. Any help would be appraciated.

This is an audio book consisting of 5 CD?s and the approx running time is 5 hours 44 minutes. The 5 CD?s are enclosed in one box, making it very handy to carry in the car.

The CD?s were bought in WH Smith on an offer for Buy 3 for 2, so I am not sure of the exact price, the CD?s can still be bought at WH Smith for £11.96 or from Amazon for £10.49

On long journeys in the car this is essential to keep the children quiet and to stop them fighting. As the punishment for not listening to the story the CD is turned off, as you would expect this is not welcome and creates within the car a certain amount of self-discipline and peer pressure discipline, as each one of the 3 boys want to here the exciting story line develop. We have listened to this story on at least 3 occasions and each time is as exciting as the last. There is always an anticlimax after the CD has finished and there is a good general discussion about the plot and a number of ideas are suggested as to what might have happened if?.. Through the listening to this book the youngest of the 3 boys has developed an interest in reading and wants to read as mush as he can (age 7). He is not able to read the book, but wants to read things more suitable to his age range.

The book is an excellent to read and to listen to in the car, it has been brought into the house and put onto their own CD player and certain parts of particular interest to the children have been repeated.

This is the second book in the Alex Rider series. The descriptions of characters and gadgets seem to make this book play like a movie in your mind, and hopefully will one day follow the Harry Potter series and make the big screen.

Very soon after the Stormbreaker experience Alex finds himself back at school and try
ing to live a normal life of a 14-year-old schoolboy. As this is Alex Rider there is a twist to the book and he finds himself working for MI6 again. This time Alex finds himself at an exclusive
school for the ill disciplined children of the very rich. The children arrive at the school as rebellious as they can be and very soon they are sent back to their parents the most perfectly good and well-mannered children, willing to do anything to please. Alex armed with a few gadgets from Smithers soon discovers the sinister Dr Grief?s evil plan and how the children change. There is an amazing escape from the school, which is on an isolated peak in the French Alps, totally over the top and in the same league as James Bond in terms of fantasy. After all this is what young boys are dreaming about.

This is another amazing well-written book, and is read in and ?easy to listen to voice? by Oliver Chris. Oliver has a very good rang of voices for the individual characters and switches from one voice to another with great ease, making the CD very easy and interesting to listen to. I am a great fan of Harry Potter, but the Alex Rider series, in my opinion is better written, with more interesting characters and a better story line. which keeps you listening until the next time there is a break in the story line before getting out of the car. So much suspense was crammed into the pages of this book.

If you have not read the previous book, or listened to it on CD, GET YOUR HAND ON IT AND LISTEN. The story line on the previous book is not linked to this story and you can listen to this book with no prior knowledge of the first book.

I am a great fan of this series of books and this is another one, which, I have thoroughly enjoyable listening to in the car and is one audio book that should not be missed by anyone.

Hope you enjoy this review.

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