My friend's brother thought the first was crap, the second the best, the third, not so good.

Wow.
That's not right.

*gasp* how can that be? *dramatic* The world now seams so upside down!

I got the first book at the library 2 weeks ago, i loved it and immediately got the other two.

A classmate recommended it.
...
Four years later, I was in Borders with a gift card and no clue, when I suddenly remembered the recommendation. I bought AOS and loved it.
By the way, I think the second book was the best of the three.

Understandable. I like the prologue of the second a lot. Exciting, a small glimpse of Barty's past.

Nero wrote:Understandable. I like the prologue of the second a lot. Exciting, a small glimpse of Barty's past.

Not to mention hilarious. :D

I particularly liked seeing the magicians' rule from the perspective of a commoner, especially the demons. Nat's perspective always portrayed them as dangerous, but useful servants. Kitty's point of view showed them as a sort of "unknown terror," if you know what I mean.
And I loved the climax, how all the little loose ends were gathered up and brought together into a suspenseful finale.

First heard about it in grade 6, when a friend was talking about it. Later that year (five years ago tommorrow, ha) my godmother gave me the first one for a birthday present. I vagely recognised it as the book my friend thought was so good. I tried starting it, but I got bored (me and her never had much of the same tastes in books anyway, though I've always liked fantasy). Then, for reasons I don't really remember, the next year I picked it up again.

Read the first chapter.

Couldn't put it down.

Nemaides wrote:

Nero wrote:Understandable. I like the prologue of the second a lot. Exciting, a small glimpse of Barty's past.

And about the only glimpse of Bart until page one hundred and eleven !!111!!!!!1!11!1!!!11!
Don't ask me why I know the exact page ......

You just do.
Quite understandable.
I hope Stroud writes a book on Bart's past....

It was a few months ago when my sister was reading it and I was on the computer. She started telling me funny parts of the book while reading it, like the winged orang utan. She said I should try it after she's done. So, I read it and had to restrain from devouring it too quick. Whenever I got near an ending of one of the books, I become quite sad that I'm near done with it.

Same.
What did you think of their respective endings?

i bought all of the three at once. they were in a same box. i didn't have any choice and bought it. at first, i only read the first 100 pages of ToS and i quit. after 1 year, i had the passion to read it again. :D

sharingansaber wrote:i bought all of the three at once. they were in a same box. i didn't have any choice and bought it. at first, i only read the first 100 pages of ToS and i quit. after 1 year, i had the passion to read it again. :D

Yeah, high five!

What's ToS?

AoS, probably in a different language, or just a typo.

Yah... I first encountered the book in my school library. I had no idea what to read
so I picked it up. About a month later i'm crying about the ending of PG.

OK, thought I'd try to get this topic back up and rolling because i wanna answer and am also curious as to how the new people on the forum found the series. Dunno if it'll work because there's alot of people still on the forums that have already answered...oh well, we'll see :P

anyway, i found the books when i was just 13 when the golems eye had just been released (there was a nice little stand of them in WHS) so i picked that up and then went sraight to AoS and loved it.

I was only 13 and on a fiver a week so had no money so eventually i managed to drag my sisters to the library because i couldn't walk there on my own and took the book out.

i drank them up, and loved them!

i went straihgt back to the libray to get out the third one and found it hadn't been released so i left in hig dungeon and waited for the last one to come out.

which i cried for three days at when i got to the end. i'd never cried at a book before.

i took them out a couple of time from the library to re-read and eventually, getting sick of going up there, brought them myself at about 15 or 16, i think. might have been 17.

and they've been on my bookshelf, the spines getting more and more creased through the years. I'm now 20. (i actually think i read them before i read HP, they might have even gotten me into books :blink: )

My mother did the awesome and bought me AoS for my 8th birthday -or something like that. After that, I asked for GE. After reading that one, I begged for PG.

Now I'm 14 -turning 15 in 3 days. I've grown up reading those books over and over. And I kept finding them more and more interesting, as I understood more and more about them.

I'm reading them again for the 6th time or so. Ptolemy's and Nat's deaths make me cry, and, IMO, Bartimaeus is one of the best book characters ever. I'll definitely read them again some day. And I hope that I can get RoS soon.

Hmmm
I think it was six-ish years ago when I found them. AoS was recommended to me by a friend. I picked it up, laughed myself silly, and kept waiting for the GE to be in our school library again (people kept checking it out). Over a year later, I was at an actual public library (which I don't go to much) and found GoE. I'd forgotten a bit about AoS, so I picked up both and read them in order. Laughed myself silly again, and was much more touched than my elementary school self was. Found PG. Nearly cried for the first time viewing any sort of entertainment media.

Proceeded to repeatedly check them out from the library. Used pocket money to buy PG from book fair, the only time of the year I got books back then. Copy got ridiculously creased before the next year when I could afford the others. Have read each book a bajillion times - I stopped keeping track after sixish times a piece.

Have preordered RoS and am super super excited and hoping it'll come tomorrow - and if not, then Monday.

I found the series in my school library. Picked up PG since I did not know it was a series. When I realized tho I have AOS a shot. I was fascinated by Bart, so kept on reading it!
Never regretted that I picked up PG by mistake :D :D
Cried like hell tho, after finishing PG!!

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I found the series in my school library. Picked up PG since I did not know it was a series. When I realized tho I have AOS a shot. I was fascinated by Bart, so kept on reading it!
Never regretted that I picked up PG by mistake :D :D
Cried like hell tho, after finishing PG!!