remember in artemis fowl when the bad guy was like "and who's going to stop me?" and artemis said "my magical fairy friends." and they bad guy laughed and said "well your fairy friends are more than welcome to try"

which was great because magical creatures need permission to enter a human dwelling and artemis was wearing a wire so all his faerie friends could hear

i'm going back to bed now good night

@monorail That book series was fun

Definitely a fun romp with little clever stuff

@monorail no, but now I'm thinking I should reread artemis fowl now that I know about fae
@BestGirlGrace @monorail Yeah, this suddenly sounds quite interesting.

@Austin_Dern @monorail Young Grace really liked them, and I think I'd dig them even more now

rich boy genius (whatever) has adventures with a high-tech faerie society (yeehaw)

@BestGirlGrace @monorail I was outside their target audience when the books came out, so never really paid attention, but now this is sounding appealing.

... Though I have to admit I'm imagining this as a Harvey Comics product of the mid-70s and thinking how impossibly perfect that would have been for me then.

@Austin_Dern @monorail if you're willing to wait a year, there's a movie coming out in 2020, but no idea if it's any good

like most paperbacks from 2009, it's pretty cheap if you have time for a novel or audiobook

@monorail Holy moly, I think I do...

I need to re-read those books

@monorail I think I fell off artemis fowl before this but congratulations, you talked me into reading more of it
@monorail am I crazy or do I remember the first few books being great and then it took a hard drop in quality at some point?
@Snorlaxation @monorail oof yeah I really disliked the last one

@monorail god i loved artemis fowl as a kid

not sure why a tiny autistic egg would so love a story about an amab neurodivergent protagonist using their skills and intellect to make a connection with the world of fairies and befriend them but gosh, what a series

@monorail all i remember of those books is my sister doing the substitution cipher in the bottom of the first book and i was so amazed by it lol when i was like 7 or whatever
@monorail I'm pretty sure I CACKLED at that line because Holly was like "Bingo >:)"