Archer’s Goon

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I know Neil Gaiman likes Wynne Jones, and I wonder if these seven might have been at the back of his mind when, a few years later, he created seven Endless siblings of his own? Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. But Mr Sykes is adamant that he won’t replace the missing words with a new set, leading to the inevitable impasse. He demands that the father Quentin Sykes (played by Only Fools and Horses's Trigger aka Roger Lloyd-Pack) hands over his two thousand words to Archer. Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues.

And Fifi’s fate, which I will not disclose here, except to say that I had completely forgotten what happened to her at the end of the book. Nice Guy: Hathaway is the only one of the siblings who comes across as a completely decent person, although some of the others are trying to improve. Howard's guess is correct, and as he climbs up the stairs of the unfinished building, he discovers that each step ages him and the building completes itself around him as he moves forward in time. Fantasy was Jones’s passion from the start, despite receiving little support from her often neglectful parents. He’s afraid of the Goon at first, but tries to get him out of the house so that his sister Awful and their father’s student Fifi (who also appears to function as a live-in housekeeper/babysitter) wouldn’t be scared.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. My kids loved it, though (since we read it aloud over a month's time) I did have to stop occasionally and remind them what had been happening and etc. She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are fans of each other's work; she dedicated her 1993 novel Hexwood to him after something he said in conversation inspired a key part of the plot. I've owned this one for a while, sort of keeping it around as something extra special to anticipate.

The only thing to watch out for is that the particular paperback edition pictured seems to fall to pieces. I thought this was unique from many fantasy books were the events will often happen to the kids in a vacuum without their parents. The best part was that on the last page, someone had written neatly in pencil: "this book comes with free spider.

The Goon says that Howard's dad owes Archer his quarterly payment of 2000 words and the Goon's there to collect. Her work also found commercial success: in 1992 the BBC adapted her novel Archer’s Goon into a six-part miniseries, and her best-selling Howl’s Moving Castle was made into an animated film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki in 2004. It struck me,” Jones said, “that the Great were remarkably touchy and unpleasant, and I thought I would like to be the same, without the unpleasantness.

Diana Wynne Jones's signature delightfully spewing plot structure and irrepressible characters kept me racing to the end.

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