Jo was dropped on the doorstep of Lily Larouche when she was just a baby with a note asking that she be taken care of, but warning that she is a "DANGEROUS" baby. Since then, Jo has lived in the desert of California with Aunt Lily, and now she's thirteen years old and trying to deal with her aunt's eccentricities, most often displayed at her parties and manifested as throwing rats at actresses, jumping into the pool wearing her cocktail dress, smashing records against her guests, and more. The paper loves her, of course, but it can be quite troublesome to be loved by the paper, or to be related to someone loved by the paper. At one particularly unusual Christmas costume party, a Russian colonel named Anatoly Korsakov dressed as a daffodil (his costume consists of a sad little fake flower on a hat) turns up, not quite sure what's going on, just that he must protect Jo. The evening grows more and more wild as Lily once again gets out of hand and a mysterious package containing a black box falls from the sky onto the head of an insolent, gun-toting boy dressed as a hedgehog. The Colonel's best friend, a glamorous, three-foot-tall talking cockroach named Sefino (who for some reason I image with Dan Stevens' voice; don't ask me why) arrives in a flurry of indignation at a questionable newspaper called the Eldritch Snitch, which has been printing nasty stories about him, and a slightly lame self-proclaimed Chinese villain named Ken Kiang burns the house down and tries to kill Jo, Lily, Korsakov, and Sefino. Eventually, the four find themselves in Eldritch City, a strange place of ruins, multiple cultures, and orders of knights. One such order is the Order of Odd-Fish, a group of people who research useless information (the more pointless, the better). Jo, Lily, the Colonel, and Sefino begin to figure out their connection to Eldritch City, but for Jo, there's a lot more than most people suspect. Eldritch City has entered a period of unease--at least for those who watch Teenage Ichthala and believe in its power to predict the future. Jo has many questions. Who is the Ichthala? Why are some people so worried? And what does a certain unpleasant TV trickster have to do with anything?
Two used copies were stuffed between some nasty pop realistic fiction and the title, old-fashioned font, and plain burgundy binding intrigued me. I am so glad that I found this weird little book. It's the only novel by James Kennedy, and he should write more, perhaps returning to the awe-inspiring world he created in The Order of Odd-Fish.
Jo was dropped on the doorstep of Lily Larouche when she was just a baby with a note asking that she be taken care of, but warning that she is a "DANGEROUS" baby. Since then, Jo has lived in the desert of California with Aunt Lily, and now she's thirteen years old and trying to deal with her aunt's eccentricities, most often displayed at her parties and manifested as throwing rats at actresses, jumping into the pool wearing her cocktail dress, smashing records against her guests, and more. The paper loves her, of course, but it can be quite troublesome to be loved by the paper, or to be related to someone loved by the paper. At one particularly unusual Christmas costume party, a Russian colonel named Anatoly Korsakov dressed as a daffodil (his costume consists of a sad little fake flower on a hat) turns up, not quite sure what's going on, just that he must protect Jo. The evening grows more and more wild as Lily once again gets out of hand and a mysterious package containing a black box falls from the sky onto the head of an insolent, gun-toting boy dressed as a hedgehog. The Colonel's best friend, a glamorous, three-foot-tall talking cockroach named Sefino (who for some reason I image with Dan Stevens' voice; don't ask me why) arrives in a flurry of indignation at a questionable newspaper called the Eldritch Snitch, which has been printing nasty stories about him, and a slightly lame self-proclaimed Chinese villain named Ken Kiang burns the house down and tries to kill Jo, Lily, Korsakov, and Sefino. Eventually, the four find themselves in Eldritch City, a strange place of ruins, multiple cultures, and orders of knights. One such order is the Order of Odd-Fish, a group of people who research useless information (the more pointless, the better). Jo, Lily, the Colonel, and Sefino begin to figure out their connection to Eldritch City, but for Jo, there's a lot more than most people suspect. Eldritch City has entered a period of unease--at least for those who watch Teenage Ichthala and believe in its power to predict the future. Jo has many questions. Who is the Ichthala? Why are some people so worried? And what does a certain unpleasant TV trickster have to do with anything?
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Despite a dreadful cover and an even worse title, Defiance made it through as an actually-pretty-good dystopian book featuring two older teens experiencing romance (together, of course). If you stick with IWMCW and if I happen to run across some actually-pretty-bad dystopian books, you'll figure out that my attitude towards such pieces of fiction is generally quite strongly negative. Okay, fine, I write dystopian sometimes, too, but it's always rather different from most of the futuristic fiction floating around. Among the likes of The Hunger Games and Divergent, Defiance does a bit of what its title suggests and breaks away from the dull norm of dystopian. Rachel Adams and Logan McEntire live in the city-state of Baalboden, which embodies a weird mix of typical dystopian (futuristic technology, a world in ruins, a tyrannical leader, and oppressive customs and rules) and pseudo-medieval (correct me if I'm invoking the wrong sub-genre; I mean the thing where guards patrol turrets, people wear tunics, fight with swords, and have oppressive customs and rules). "Unusual mix," you may say. But it worked out quite well. Rachel and Logan's world held together (in the writing sense; there's plenty of bone-breaking, murdering, burning, and other various calamities within the pages of Defiance) despite the odds of such a relatively rare combination completely falling apart.
Decades ago, a businessman drilled into the earth looking for a new source of fuel, and unwittingly released dragons. The beasts proceeded to destroy the world, and although all but one were killed, far more people were lost in the effort. When the destruction more or less settled, a triumphant group of nine men emerged from the ground. They claimed that they had found a way to control the Cursed One, as the final, immortal dragon was now called, and anyone who wished to live had to seek protection in the nine city-states the men would now set up on the only continent still populated by people. Now, fifty years later, Commander Jason Chase rules his city of Baalboden as a tyrant. The rules he set up years ago set strict gender roles that cannot be broken. Women must have a Protector, and are expected to behave docilely and obediently. But Rachel Adams doesn't fit the mold of the ordinary Baalbodenese sixteen-year-old girl. Her father, the city's best courier, trained her in fighting, and she's fierce, independent, and the exact opposite of what Baalboden girls are supposed to be like. Unfortunately, Jared Adams has gone missing on a mission to Rowansmark, a rival city-state, and the Commander has declared him dead. At the reading of Jared's will, Rachel expects that her Protectorship will be assigned to Oliver, an old baker who has been like a grandfather to her, but instead, her fate ends up in the hands of Logan McEntire, Jared's inventor apprentice, who two years ago Rachel confessed love to, and he shut her out. They haven't really spoken since, and now they're expected to live under the same roof, see each other every day, and work together. They both want Jared back, and they both suspect that the official declaration of Jared's death is not at all reality. So much stands in their way, mostly the result of the Commander and his regime. Rachel can't stop thinking about her lost father. Logan can't get the image of his mother, dead at the hands of the Commander thirteen years ago, out of his head. Written in two perspectives, Defiance tells the story of these two young adults trying to get back what's important to them and looking for a life together. It's been at least a year since I read Nobody's Princess, so I did have some trouble remembering exactly who these characters were and why they were doing what they were doing. Fortunately, Esther Friesner is quite good at reminding you where you left off without making an absolute mess of it. Here's an absolute mess: "So-and-so had gone to This City because he was looking for his little sister Blah, who had been kidnapped by a man named Mr. Whatever." Then, even if you have forgotten what's going on anyway, you feel utterly stupid. Here's a more subtle way: "So-and-so shuddered at the memory of Mr. Whatever's cruel expression as he snatched little Blah from the armchair. So-and-so now found himself in This City, not knowing where to look for the evil Whatever and sweet Blah." Better? I hope so. In the first version, you feel a bit like a five-year-old who has just missed some important family discussion and is now having the details explained painstakingly and way too clearly to you. In the second version, you feel more like you're (gasp) reading a book--and not only that, but like the book was written by an author who can actually write.
In my previous review for Deception's Princess, I did mention Frienser's writing's lack of completely amazing qualities, but I have returned to finish off the story of Helen of Sparta! You might wish to read Nobody's Princess before proceeding to read this review. Helen, hearing of Prince Jason's voyage to seek the legendary Golden Fleece, has disguised herself as a boy named Glaucus, and she and her friend Milo, a former slave, are sailing to Iolkos, where the Argo is supposed to be setting off from. They get work as weapons-bearers for a hero named Iolaus, and soon begin their adventure. But it's not nearly as easy as they had hoped--Helen has to avoid her older brothers, Castor and Polydeucus, lest they should get a good look in and recognize her for who she really is. On top of that, Helen's growing up, and passing as a boy becomes harder and harder with each day. As if that wasn't bad enough, she gets caught up in a horrible love triangle--she has fallen for a beautiful weapons-bearer named Hylas, who loves his master Herakles, who loves Helen's boy identity. More and more people are taken into Helen and Milo's confidence, and the secret is bound to come out soon. Some characters from Nobody's Princess reappear, such as the hero Iolaus and the famous Athenian king Theseus, along with Helen's family, and new characters are introduced, including the Argonauts, mad Princess Medea of Colchis, and the unfortunate Athenian guard Telys--and of course Menelaus, the man who will become Helen's husband, enters the picture near the end. Two years after The Apothecary, the sequel came out, and I've read it at last. But before you follow suit, I would suggest ensuring that you've already read the previous book. If you haven't, you'll want to take care of that before even reading my review of The Apprentices, because some plot point of its predecessor will be given away.
Two years have passed since Janie Scott, her parents, and her friend Pip drank the Wine of Lethe and forgot all about three weeks of their lives, in which they met Benjamin Burrows and travelled to Nova Zembla to halt an atomic bomb test. After drugging Janie, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Pip, and a couple of troublesome employees of Scotland Yard, Benjamin and his father escape on a train--it's not safe for Janie and Pip and people close to them to have any memory of the last three weeks, and Benjamin and Mr. Burrows cannot stay in England. But a year after they left, Benjamin sent Janie her diary, and everything came back... Now Janie is living back in the USA, in a little town called Grayson, New Hampshire, with her parents living in Michigan, writing for television. Janie goes to a private school, Grayson Academy, and rooms with a very rich, stunningly gorgeous (as in, more beautiful than Sarah Pennington from The Apothecary) girl named Opal Magnusson, whose mother is a Malaysian princess. Janie's been working on an experiment in her spare time--inspired by Jin Lo's desalinating solution, she's attempting to recreate the mixture. Much to her annoyance, Mr. Magnusson, Opal's father, keeps praising her intelligence at the expense of Opal. Out of habit, he slights his daughter and calls her stupid and lazy. Janie's not exactly moody Opal's friend, but she can't stand the way Magnusson talks about the two girls, contrasting them unfairly. One awkward restaurant dinner turns into a fight between the two schoolgirls, and the next day, Janie receives shocking news: She has been accused of cheating on a math test--something she would never, ever do--and is now expelled from Grayson Academy. It doesn't take her long to figure out that Opal is the source of the accusation, and a little more digging brings up further revelations. She asks if she can keep working on her chemistry experiment, since she's so close to figuring out the correct solution. The headmaster refuses to let her stay on the campus, and so she ends up working as a dishwasher for Bruno's Italian restaurant, looking over Benjamin's rather strange letters in her spare time, and befriending Bruno's son Rafaello. Meanwhile, Benjamin has been sending Janie coded messages with his location hidden in the code. It's been a while since he and his father travelled, though, and instead of running around the world stopping atomic testing as they're supposed to be doing, they've been acting as field medics for Vietnamese villagers fighting the Vietminh. He, too, has his own chemistry experiment going, but this one is more in the vein of the Pharmacopoeia and is slightly less scientific. His goal is to create a substance that can provide windows into the worlds of others. He ends up with a gray powder that allows you to look through the eyes of anyone else who has taken it. All you have to do is think of them, and their world will open up before you. He sends some to Janie, and their secret communication begins. But some things are private, and Benjamin ends up seeing an event that Janie would wish unknown to the world. We can't forget about Pip. The former pickpocket has slid easily into celebrity life, even though he had a painful breakup with Sarah Pennington at some point between The Apothecary and The Apprentices that still hurts him and won't get out of his mind. His comfortable new life is disrupted by an unexpected telegram from Benjamin--Janie's in danger, he says. Get to America, he says. Pip immediately sails off, battling uncomfortable shoes and creepy girls along the way. His arrival in America brings unpleasant surprises. Funny how books float our way--we pick something up after having known of its existence for a year or two, but we can't remember at all how we first came across it. Given its target audience, it doesn't surprise me that Sabriel has drifted around my world for a while, but no one introduced me to it. No one told me to read it. The only opinion I ever heard of it was from someone who was partway through it: "I hate this book. I'm only reading it because it has an amazing title," she told me, peering over the top of the black-bound book, through her gray glasses, and from under her short hair which always seems to have a different color every other week (and on top of that, her name is Hero). (Hey--at the risk of overusing parentheses [but when have I ever been afraid of that] I just managed to make my colors and nouns alliterate up there--you know, "black-bound book," "gray glasses.") Short of anything good but Charles Dickens to read, Christmas--and most of the book reviews on this site so far are the result of that delightful holiday--brought me several good books not by Charles Dickens. Sabriel smiled and me and tilted its head. (Oh, hullo there.) And suddenly it's on the wait stack. After couple of weeks, I'd got round to it.
When Sabriel was a newborn baby, she almost died. Luckily for her, her father is the Abhorsen, the most recent (besides Sabriel) in an ancient line of people who lay the Dead to rest--the opposite of a necromancer, in other words. Whereas necromancers raise the Dead and use them for their own purposes, Abhorsens find Dead spirits that have made their way into the world and send them deep into death, so that they will not find their way out again, and can instead rest peacefully. With his daughter dying, Abhorsen plunges into Death to save her. He is able to pull her back to Life before it is too late, but he makes an unpleasant discovery at the same time--a Dead spirit called Kerrigor is beginning to fight its way out to the living world... Eighteen years pass, and Sabriel is now enrolled at Wyverly College, where she has been educated since she was five years old. Aside from her regular classes, she also learns magic--Charter Magic, the "good" type (as opposed to Free Magic, the dangerous and dark magic of necromancers and the Old Kingdom, on the other side of the Wall--Wyverly College is located in Ancelstierre, south of the Wall). But there are some things that Magistrix Greenwood can't teach her, and so she learns the trade of the Abhorsens from her father, who visits a little more often than the headmistress of Wyverly thinks. She memorizes the Book of the Dead, learns how to use the seven bells that can control the dead, and even does a little fighting of the Dead herself. But one night, a Dead spirit shows up in one of the school's dormitories, and Sabriel is called to deal with it. It proves to be no ordinary haunt--it's a messenger from her father, and he has sent her his sword engraved with Charter marks and the belt with the pouches for the bells. She knows what this means--either Abhorsen is dead or trapped in death, and she must save him. A journey into the Old Kingdom follows, but it is clear that much more is horribly wrong than just Abhorsen being trapped in death. Sabriel ends up with a sarcastic cat spirit named Mogget and a confused young man named Touchstone at her side, and the three of them work to save not only Abhorsen but all of the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre, too. Wow.
I've been meaning to get around to reading The Princess Bride for absolutely ages. I'd heard about the great swathes of personal-narrative text in this book, and that put me off for a while, but at last, after years of loving the movie, I finally bought it. I really don't know why the idea of great swathes of personal-narrative text was so abhorrent; it's never much of a problem for me unless it's really badly written. After reading it, I can safely say that it didn't take away too much from the story at all, and I'm so glad that I have read this book at last. In the country of Florin, milkmaid Buttercup is slowly making her way through the ranks of beauty, eventually arriving in the top twenty most beautiful women in the world by her late teens. But her pretty exterior doesn't say all for her, because she's horribly rude to the boy who works on their farm. His real name is Westley, but she always calls him Farm Boy, and never speaks to him except to order him around. Every time she gives him a task, he answers the same way: "As you wish." Buttercup's parents are not in what most people would call a happy marriage, and their daughter has so little imagination that her beloved stallion is named simply Horse. But one day, following a visit from a Count and Countess, Buttercup begins to realize that she is in love with Westley. She dashes to his hovel and tells him of her thirty-minutes-old passion, and eventually he tells her that he loves her back. But their happiness is shattered when Westley decides to go seek his fortune in America. It's not long before the dreadful news arrives--pirates have attacked, and Westley is missing, almost certainly dead. Buttercup falls into a blank state and vows to never love again. Meanwhile, Prince Humperdinck has just received news that King Lotharon is dying, causing his son to be very put out, because now the hunting-obsessed Humperdinck shall have to find himself a bride. After a few failed suits, including a bald princess of Guilder--the enemy country--who conceals her shame under a massive hat collection, the milkmaid from the country, gorgeous and grieving, is swept up onto the Prince's horse and taken away to begin her new life at the castle in Florin City. They have established that there is to be no love in their relationship, but there's worse than that, unbeknownst to Princess Buttercup. The hidden plots begin to be revealed when a strange trio kidnaps the young woman on one of her daily rides. They are Vizzini the evil genius, hired to commit crimes; Fezzik the giant, who really hates to hurt people; and Inigo Montoya the great fencing wizard who wants nothing more than justice for the murder of his father, which he witnessed when he was a young boy. But as they near the Cliffs of Insanity, Inigo notices a ship following them--the man in black has come to claim his prize... Well, here we go. First not-so-wonderful review. It had to happen at some point; one can't like all books that they read. I did want so much to love this book, but that wasn't going to happen. The premise sounded fantastic, and really it was. The bit about the main character suddenly moving to Northern Ireland interested me especially, since I'm very interested in Ireland. I thought it might help me write some of my own works that take place partially or entirely in Ireland, considering that the writer is from Carrickfergus, where the story is set. I did learn some, but once the alien planet was discovered...well...the writing just went, as I've been telling people, NEEERRRRRRRRRRRR. A finger moving downward in a rapid arc accompanies that noise. The beginning was really wonderful, but towards the middle, the plot was literally the only thing driving the story, and by that time it wasn't even a very good plot at that.
Jamie O'Neill had bone cancer a year ago, which resulted in the amputation of his left forearm. Since then, he has not said a single word. He communicates by gestures and writing things in a notebook, and he lives with his mother in a ramshackle New York City apartment. Though Anna O'Neill has a good, well-paying job, all of the cancer treatments for her son took loads of money, and her debts are too great to live somewhere nicer. It doesn't help that her husband left her for a woman in Seattle when Jamie had just had his surgery, leaving his wife in the economic lurch and causing his son to feel betrayed, alone, and unloved by all except Anna and an old librarian named Thaddeus Harper who is fond of talking to him. Jamie has no other friends, and his Harlem School for Children with Special Needs is not at all the right place for him, since all the other kids there who can't speak are actually mute. Jamie chooses not to speak, and he connects with no one at school. But then Anna receives a letter with a lot of confusing legal terms in it one day, but she understands what it means: a distant relation of hers has died and she has inherited Muck Island off of Islandmagee off the coast of Ireland (at one point Jamie thinks of it as an island off the coast of a bigger island called Islandmagee off the coast of an even bigger island called Ireland which is off the coast of an island larger still called Great Britain--I liked that take on it). On Muck Island there is a little Victorian cottage--and an old lighthouse that is no longer used as such. Anna and Jamie, having nothing really to stay in New York for, decide that yes, they will move to the Lighthouse House on Muck Island, Northern Ireland. When they arrive, they make an interesting discovery--when he turns eighteen, Jamie will be the Laird of Muck, or Lord Ui Neill/O'Neill, a designation similar to a lord. On Jamie's first day of school, he makes a friend--a guy named Ramsay McDonald who shares his rather rare views on the world. Ramsay respects that Jamie doesn't want to talk, and he's very smart, spending lots of the words he says to Jamie on bits of information. Ramsay and Jamie finally convince Anna to let them use the lighthouse as a place to hang out and do homework, as long as they were careful on the decrepit stairs. But one day, Ramsay looks at the lighthouse and realizes that it's too tall--there's an upper chamber that they haven't discovered yet. Jamie and Ramsay break through the ceiling and discover that there is, indeed, another room at the top. In that room, they find a strange gold device shaped like a fish and decorated with jeweled buttons. It doesn't take long for them to figure out that the Salmon, as it is called, takes them to the alien planet of Altair, where the equatorial country of Aldan is desperate for help in fending off the northern invaders from Alkhava, a country running out of resources and space as the permanent ice creeps over their land in the process of global freezing (the opposite of Earth's global warming). There, Jamie and Ramsay meet an Aldanese girl named Wishaway who claims that her people have been waiting for the Lords Ui Neill; in past times of trouble, they have come just in time to save them. This is one of those books that I meant to read and meant to read ever since it came out, and I just never got around to it until last month. It really catches your eye at the bookstore--among all the kid/YA books that have cover pictures of either plucky young protagonists looking confused and carrying magical instruments, or very ordinary and harassed-faced teens trying their best to be attractive, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children really stands out in that its cover is a vintage photograph of a levitating little girl in a tiara, floating blank-faced among some trees. "Wow," you say to yourself. "That must be one strange book." And you pick it up, and you flip through it, and things get even weirder as you notice all the old and creepy photographs, largely of kids doing impossible things like lifting huge boulders or having two reflections in water. Actually, these pictures aren't nearly as creepy and weird when you read the book, because they connect to the story, and you just go, "Oh, yeah, there's Hugh with his bees all over him, like usual."
Jacob Portman has a rather unusual grandfather named Abe, and according to Abe, his past was literally magical. He was born in Poland just before WWII, and had to escape the Nazis. He was sent to an island off the coast of Wales, where, as he tells his grandson, the sun shone all day and everything was perfect. And the kids there did magical things; Abe even has photographs to prove it--invisible boys and such. At first, Jake is fascinated by these tales, even though a part of them gives him nightmares--the monsters. In Abe's early stories to young Jake, horrible monsters with loose black skin and many tentacle-like tongues were what chased him away from his family and to the island off of Wales. But as Jake gets older and wiser, he figures out that Abe's stories must be embellished, and that the creepy monsters were really just men with guns and uniforms, who Abe later went to fight when WWII finally came. Only then something awful happens: Abe is murdered in the middle of the woods. Jake and his friend Ricky arrive just in time to see the old man die, and Jake sees something terrifying in the woods that runs away before he can get a proper look--it's one of the monsters Abe always told him about. But Ricky didn't catch a glimpse of the creature, and so Jake gets a psychologist named Dr. Golan who diagnoses the boy with acute stress reaction, and pronounces the "monster" in the woods a product of that, and after a while, Jake is convinced that he saw nothing. His grandpa was killed by wild animals, nothing else. But Abe's last words are still haunting him, and he cannot figure them out. On his sixteenth birthday, Jake receives a gift from his grandpa: a book of Ralph Waldo Emerson's writing, and inside there is a letter, fifteen years old, from someone named Alma Peregrine. Soon, Jake and his father plan a trip for a few weeks to the Welsh island of Cairnholm. Mr. Portman wants to research birds there, and Jake plans to figure out what really happened to his grandfather when Abe was a child, and so he finds Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children. When I was in fourth grade or fifth grade or something, I read The Apothecary. A few years later, I was appalled to discover that I remembered next to nothing about it—odd, considering that I remember books very well, especially ones that I liked. And I liked The Apothecary. And yet despite all of my usual tendencies, I remembered nothing except that it took place in postwar London, the main character was named Janie, there was a guy named Pip, and at some point some people turned into birds. Wow. One of the worst story recalls of my life. It was a little confusing, but that sort of thing has never deterred me or caused such a lack of memory. And so, after a couple of years of gazing in agitation at the gray volume reposing on my shelf in the M section (for Meloy), I finally picked it up again last month.
It's February 1952, and 14-year-old Janie Scott lives a normal life in California. But then strange men start following her home, and her family discovers that they are being followed by the American government, who thinks they might be communists. The Scotts are forced to move to London, and Janie doesn't know what to do, uprooted from everything she'd ever known and taken to a foreign city, enrolling at a school where she has to take Latin, a language she speaks not a word of. It seems like everyone hates her--the first student she met was Sarah Pennington, rich, privileged, and gorgeous, who keeps saying "This is Jane Scott from California," like the state is fictitious or something. The Latin teacher, Mr. Danby, is nice, though, and Janie feels a bit better knowing that there is a Russian kid at school, Sergei Shiskin, who's probably having an even worse time than she is. But during her first day at lunch, they have a bomb drill, and the only person who refuses to go under the cafeteria tables because he claims they will offer no protection is Benjamin Burrows, son of a local apothecary who wants more than anything to become a spy. Janie and Benjamin become friends over chess in the park, where Benjamin sits and watches people. He has become suspicious of a particular man. But then strange things start happening--Benjamin's father is kidnapped. A man is murdered with a sundial. A mysterious book called the Pharmacopoeia falls into Janie and Benjamin's hands, and the quest to find the missing apothecary and find out what his real work is begins. |
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