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Author Topic: CHERUB and Henderson's Boys.  (Read 49369 times)
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« Reply #600 on: April 21, 2011, 08:37:30 PM »
Quote from: Snooze on April 21, 2011, 06:47:32 PM
I like them, especially the WWII ones. it's great to see how CHERUB was formed from the start. But personally, i find them a bit crude and crass, not every teenager is not obsessed with sex and sexualising everything. Muchamore assumes we are all foul mouthed etc. and it bugs me. but yeah hendersons boys are the best.
Haha well thats what i liked best about 'em its like with Alex rider he's fourteen and is very uncrass and sabina and him dont do stuff. which isnt a bad thing at all but i mean CHERUB always revolves around campus life and who james is shagging the missions are just plot twists. It makes them like more enjoyable, like still i'll remember when james hit on that one girl and completely crashed and burned, or when james and kerry had their first fight etc. Alex rider is a spy thats a teenager, James Adams is a teenager thats a spy if that makes any sense.
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« Reply #601 on: April 23, 2011, 07:30:13 PM »
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Quote from: rebel on April 22, 2011, 05:42:05 AM
Tai is correct. CHERUB revolves more around campus life and the life of a teenager. The missions are as much of a sideshow as a main plot line. 
Exactly, thats what made the newerbooks worth reading: the campus life.
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« Reply #602 on: April 28, 2011, 08:23:53 PM »
Buut isn't the main character like 12 or 13?
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« Reply #603 on: April 28, 2011, 10:21:40 PM »
Quote from: Rocket on April 28, 2011, 08:23:53 PM
Buut isn't the main character like 12 or 13?
each book or every two books is one year so by the end of the series he's 17
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« Reply #604 on: April 29, 2011, 02:43:32 AM »
James is 11 in the first book.

I find the campus life ridiculously boring. It was the missions that were the best bits...and they get worse and worse as the books progress. I don't understand why I kept reading after the fall...
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« Reply #605 on: April 29, 2011, 03:08:15 AM »
Quote from: Pedro-ologist on April 29, 2011, 02:43:32 AM
James is 11 in the first book.

I find the campus life ridiculously boring. It was the missions that were the best bits...and they get worse and worse as the books progress. I don't understand why I kept reading after the fall...
The fall was one of the best! and sleepwalker was great. but like the golf cart races james getting into trouble IT was Great!
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« Reply #606 on: April 30, 2011, 07:01:11 AM »
Quote from: rebel on April 30, 2011, 06:28:46 AM
Quote from: Pedro-ologist on April 29, 2011, 02:43:32 AM
James is 11 in the first book.

I find the campus life ridiculously boring. It was the missions that were the best bits...and they get worse and worse as the books progress. I don't understand why I kept reading after the fall...


Yeah that makes sense that you find campus life boring. Being an alex rider enthusiest I imagine you do enjoy action alot more. Alex rider frequently gets into and out of unbelievable situations that are completely action orientated. 

Unbelievable, but at least possible. All authors should do the kind of research Anthony Horowitz does on possibilty and such.
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« Reply #607 on: April 30, 2011, 10:58:00 AM »
AH does do research. I remember He (yes, if you didn't realize it already, Anthony Horowitz is a God...Therefore, the Capital H in He...) came to Perth to research Snakehead...

Robert Muchamore doesn't do as much research and there is never as much detail in his books. I am not an action enthusiast, but I do find all the 'romance' stuff (which you call 'campus life') tediously boring. One almost loses the will to stop reading (actually, many of my friends did...), and one often has the want to go and throw up (no, it is not the sexual references that do it, it is just the boringness...). Although I did like the blackmail part...that's action.

Also, I am not a huge Alex Rider Fan. Diamond Brothers...I would rank myself in the top 10, world wide...
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« Reply #608 on: April 30, 2011, 08:35:38 PM »
Well to be fair, Robert gets most things right and making sense. One thing I remember though is something about how there's so many Cherub agents and yet Mi5 has not even 300...real adult agents. That makes it seem very unbelievable.
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« Reply #609 on: May 01, 2011, 05:48:37 AM »
Oh that probably is why, I was just trying to say that there are just as many unbelievable things in Cherub
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« Reply #610 on: May 01, 2011, 08:14:12 AM »
Yeah, t hat's one of the things that makes biographies less interesting than books like Cherub- at least in my opinion anyway. When people say things like 'Would you read your life if it was in a book', I say no. The only reason I'd read my life story is to see what other people saw my life as...
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« Reply #611 on: July 17, 2011, 06:39:39 PM »
Muchamore is coming to a bookstore near me...
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« Reply #612 on: July 18, 2011, 12:26:02 AM »
Are you going to go see him?
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« Reply #613 on: July 18, 2011, 06:30:09 PM »
Nope. What would I say to him? I'd be right to give him a piece of my mind when he did that video about AH. But I don't to cause a scene in WHSmith and there'll be an army of CHERUB fans really to attack XD
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« Reply #614 on: July 18, 2011, 10:19:38 PM »
Lol, maybe another time then...
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