Yup! A book ended with him in some sort of escape pod landing in the ocean, and then the next one started with the Australian spy agency scooping him up and forcing him into a mission
Basically every book stated with Alex going "NO, NO MORE SPY STUFF" and then being yanked around until he grudgingly accepted being a spy again, over and over and over to the point of hilarity
It would be like if every Bond movie started like Skyfall
I've never heard of Alex Rider but presumably they're not as good as Animorphs
I mean 12 year old Etchwarts found them to be entertaining enough, but even at that age I knew they were just James Bond minus the interesting bits
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remember the young bond books
those were trash
i remember in SilverFin the villain was talking about how weak and inferior women were and how hormones could be used to make them masculine and blah blah blah and a young antimatter was intrigued by the opposite
i remember in SilverFin the villain was talking about how weak and inferior women were and how hormones could be used to make them masculine and blah blah blah and a young antimatter was intrigued by the opposite
I read a bunch of matthew reilly when I was young, took a few years break, and read 5 ancient warriors or something, and then it got to a bit where they went to Rwanda and it kept on going on about the 'Deepest, darkest, most Savage part of Africa', and some bad dude having a UN helmet that he'd taken from someone he'd killed and then they went and found an EVEN MORE SAVAGE tribe somewhere and at that point I went "fuck this, fuck you" and decided to peace out on his writings forever.
Oh, actually, I just remembered my favourite bits from alex rider, and that was when there was a scene with S.C.O.R.P.I.O.N. or whatever the bad people were called (it was a shitty fucking acronym), or maybe the lady was called Scorpion, but anyway, there was a whole meeting scene with all of the evil spies, and this one old russian spy said that he was getting old and wanted to peace out of the whole organisation, and everyone was pretty cool with it. And then the new villain, the scorpion lady, gives him a present, which is completely unprecedented, and the old dude is just so happy and then as he's leaving he opens it and it's a box full of deadly scorpions and he dies.
Another favourite bit was when one of the bad dudes owned a football team, and then they lost, so he sends one of his goons down to the captain of the team as he's showering after the game and the goon goes, "oh yeah, the boss isn't at all pissed that you lost in fact you get a medal", and the captain goes "this is kinda weird also this is a weird looking medal" and the goon straight up says "oh yeah, it's made of caesium" and the captain goes "oh well whatever, I'mma wear it while I shower" and then he blows up in the shower because killing the captain of your football team after he lost a game with a goddam exploding medal was an entirely reasonable chain of events.
And then Alex has to sneak into the stadium while being "escorted" out by "security", so he stares at the back of a guy's head long enough that the guy turns around. He then flips the guy off so he comes and attacks the security guards.
They're also super dumb, and just get dumber and dumber and dumber as time goes on
Like I think one time he got ambushed and drugged and woke up dressed as a matador in a bull-fighting competition?
And he spends the entire time fighting this bull, dressed like a matador, in front of a cheering crowd, mentally wringing his hands over the thought of killing this bull
I actually can't remember if he did it; I feel like he did some dumb contrived thing and got out of it
Or one of plots where there's gonna be a Make Poverty History conference with a bunch of actors and stuff somewhere, and the evil spies have a meeting and are all "nah, poverty's great and is super useful and keeps people in their place and have we mentioned that we are evil?" and so the plot of the book is them trying to blow up the conference or cause a tsunami or something because the conference is so threatening to their way of life.
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Do the doctors know exactly what's wrong with you?
It was just seemed sort of meandering and bloated to me
Like I get that it is depicting (more or less) real events, and that this is a story that spanned a long period of time and that involved a lot of people, but I ended up just wishing it would end already but I kept watching because I was curious if they ever find the guy even though I was pretty sure they wouldn't
By the two hour mark I was really fighting the urge to just look up the actual zodiac killer on Wikipedia and "spoil" the movie and turn it off
One of them was a clone of someone else who was surgically altered to look like him but would actually grow up evil and then something would happen and then they'd be able to recreate the apartheid or something?
One of them was a clone of someone else who was surgically altered to look like him but would actually grow up evil and then something would happen and then they'd be able to recreate the apartheid or something?
Yeah, it was a clone of the main bad guy of that book
His whole Thing was that he/someone he knew or something was the best at plastic surgery and mimicking people, and the fact that there was an Alex clone was a big bombshell they dropped
i remember that he had a clone that he had to fight and kill in a climactic fight after he thought his job was done
OH MY GOD THERE WAS A CLONE
Didn't the book even end on a "IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE WRONG ALEX WHO SURVIVED" note, too?
Please tell me it was the final book too
I think it was the 3rd or 4th book that ended on an 'ALEX MIGHT BE DEAD!!??' note, and Horowitz had to come out and say "look, of course he's not dead, I'm working on the next book right now, I thought you would have got this by now".
i remember that he had a clone that he had to fight and kill in a climactic fight after he thought his job was done
OH MY GOD THERE WAS A CLONE
Didn't the book even end on a "IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE WRONG ALEX WHO SURVIVED" note, too?
Please tell me it was the final book too
I think it was the 3rd or 4th book that ended on an 'ALEX MIGHT BE DEAD!!??' note, and Horowitz had to come out and say "look, of course he's not dead, I'm working on the next book right now, I thought you would have got this by now".
I remember when I read it, I actually felt pretty good about it as an ending
So then when the next one came out I had pretty much checked out of the franchise
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i think i read up to snakehead or whatever the hell
i was flabbergasted to see a spinoff origin book in bookstores recently for one of rider's russian antagonists
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But yeah
they are not
nor were they as numerous
longer, though
Yup! A book ended with him in some sort of escape pod landing in the ocean, and then the next one started with the Australian spy agency scooping him up and forcing him into a mission
Basically every book stated with Alex going "NO, NO MORE SPY STUFF" and then being yanked around until he grudgingly accepted being a spy again, over and over and over to the point of hilarity
It would be like if every Bond movie started like Skyfall
I mean 12 year old Etchwarts found them to be entertaining enough, but even at that age I knew they were just James Bond minus the interesting bits
those were trash
I never actually read them!
Fool me once, etc
This movie is already so dumb
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Should I know who this dude is
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Another favourite bit was when one of the bad dudes owned a football team, and then they lost, so he sends one of his goons down to the captain of the team as he's showering after the game and the goon goes, "oh yeah, the boss isn't at all pissed that you lost in fact you get a medal", and the captain goes "this is kinda weird also this is a weird looking medal" and the goon straight up says "oh yeah, it's made of caesium" and the captain goes "oh well whatever, I'mma wear it while I shower" and then he blows up in the shower because killing the captain of your football team after he lost a game with a goddam exploding medal was an entirely reasonable chain of events.
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And then Alex has to sneak into the stadium while being "escorted" out by "security", so he stares at the back of a guy's head long enough that the guy turns around. He then flips the guy off so he comes and attacks the security guards.
Like I said, they're entertaining enough
They're also super dumb, and just get dumber and dumber and dumber as time goes on
Like I think one time he got ambushed and drugged and woke up dressed as a matador in a bull-fighting competition?
And he spends the entire time fighting this bull, dressed like a matador, in front of a cheering crowd, mentally wringing his hands over the thought of killing this bull
I actually can't remember if he did it; I feel like he did some dumb contrived thing and got out of it
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I feel like I should check them out the next time I'm there and report back
With any luck there'll be a volcano base
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It's been a long, long time since I've read those books, and they all just sort of blend together
Didn't he have some sort of recurring love interest?
OH MY GOD THERE WAS A CLONE
Didn't the book even end on a "IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE WRONG ALEX WHO SURVIVED" note, too?
Also, his love interest is called Sabina Pleasure
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It was just seemed sort of meandering and bloated to me
Like I get that it is depicting (more or less) real events, and that this is a story that spanned a long period of time and that involved a lot of people, but I ended up just wishing it would end already but I kept watching because I was curious if they ever find the guy even though I was pretty sure they wouldn't
By the two hour mark I was really fighting the urge to just look up the actual zodiac killer on Wikipedia and "spoil" the movie and turn it off
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Please tell me it was the final book too
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I'm afraid not
Shit
This is the most excited I've been about Alex Rider since like 8th grade
I feel like I need to reread all of these books
Yeah, it was a clone of the main bad guy of that book
His whole Thing was that he/someone he knew or something was the best at plastic surgery and mimicking people, and the fact that there was an Alex clone was a big bombshell they dropped
At least I sure hope it was a netflix problem
Because anytime there was some kind of ongoing sound effect, like a faucet running or a crowd murmuring, it was difficult to hear the actual dialogue
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I think it was the 3rd or 4th book that ended on an 'ALEX MIGHT BE DEAD!!??' note, and Horowitz had to come out and say "look, of course he's not dead, I'm working on the next book right now, I thought you would have got this by now".
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I remember when I read it, I actually felt pretty good about it as an ending
So then when the next one came out I had pretty much checked out of the franchise
i was flabbergasted to see a spinoff origin book in bookstores recently for one of rider's russian antagonists
I've actually never heard of this one.