artemis fowl??

Question

what is the subject of the book??

sorry i ment the artemis fowl and the lost colony...

Answer 1

Artemis Fowl is a teen fantasy novel written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. It is the first book in the Artemis Fowl series, and is followed by Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. Described by its author as "Die Hard with fairies," it follows the adventures of 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, a criminal mastermind.
Throughout the book, the third-person narration switches repeatedly from following the human characters to following the fairy characters, using this to maintain underlying themes of greed and conflict. The book received a favourable critical response, and several awards.
Artemis Fowl II is the twelve year old son of a European crime lord, Artemis Fowl Senior. Along with his friend and bodyguard Butler, Artemis believes he has discovered the existence of fairies. He tracks down a sprite posing as a healer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and acquires The Book from her - the fairy holy book that is written in Gnommish.
Meanwhile, Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police is tracking a rogue troll that managed to reach the surface of the Earth - fairies live underground. Assisted remotely by a centaur named Foaly and LEPrecon Commander Julius Root, she incapacitates the troll. This uses the last of her magic, and Commander Root demands that she complete the magic restoring ritual.
Artemis decodes the Book, learning of the Ritual in the process, and he and Butler proceed to a site for the Ritual where they find Holly. She attempts to employ the mind-controlling mesmer, but fails and is tranquillised by a hypodermic dart. The LEP are immediately aware of her disappearance, and Root goes to the surface to search for her. He locates her tracker and heads to its location - a whaler off the coast of Dublin. Through an audio/video communicator, Artemis informs Root that he has Holly for ransom, and then proceeds to destroy the whaler.
An LEPretrieval team is sent to scout Fowl Manor. Using their magical ability of "shielding", which allows them to vibrate faster than the eyes can follow, they manage to enter the manor grounds. Artemis anticipates this through his knowledge of The Book and places a specialized camera, allowing Butler to incapacitate them. Root decides to lay siege to Fowl Manor using a time-stop, and negotiations are entered - the ransom demand is one metric ton of 24-carat gold. Artemis uses the opportunity to reveal his knowledge of the time-stop which the fairies applied as part of the siege, and implies that he can escape it.
The attempts to gain entry to the manor continue as criminal dwarf, Mulch Diggums, is recruited to break in. He tunnels underground to reach the house, and Foaly feeds a loop to the cameras before locating a safe containing a copy of the Book. The Fairy Council decide that nothing is working and promote a lieutenant called Briar Cudgeon to Commander. He sends a troll in to force the humans to allow them entry. Meanwhile, Holly Short remembers an acorn she dropped in her boot, and cracks through the concrete of her cell to complete the Ritual, regain her magic, and escape from her cell.
Artemis is granted the ransom, and it is sent to the house. He asks Holly for a wish, to cure his mother from insanity, which she grants at the cost of half the gold. The LEP decide to attempt to kill Artemis to retrieve the rest of the gold, and "blue-rinse" the house with a bio-bomb which kills all organic life. Artemis, knowing that they will do this, escapes the time-stop with Butler and Juliet by drugging them. When Butler wakes, he demands an explanation from Artemis for why they were drugged, and Artemis explains that by changing one's state of wakefulness in a time-stop, one could overcome its effects, because it was only their consciousness that kept them trapped by the time-stop.
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Themes

Artemis Fowl has a number of underlying themes, but the most essential of these are greed and the conflict between so-called good and evil.[4][5]
Greed is the first main theme that is introduced into the book[6], and specifically the desire to obtain gold. It is likely that the idea behind this desire stems from the historic regard that gold is associated with power, and that it is power that Artemis is trying to obtain. In a similar manner to other themes in the book, it changes throughout, becoming less of a focus near to the end of the novel, where he is willing to part with a large sum of money to help someone else.
The idea of conflict between good and evil is one that is touched upon in the book in a light hearted manner - although Artemis sees himself as an evil genius at the beginning of the book,[7] and it is indeed this image that is portrayed, the end of the story brings this idea into doubt as well when he pays to help his mother. The fairies would take the good side in this view, but this can also be questioned - they are as determined as Artemis to achieve their goals and ruthlessly deploy a troll, regardless of the possible danger to life, to try and force Artemis into submission.[8]
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Code

At the bottom of each page of the book, a string of symbols appear. These symbols are supposedly Gnommish, but are really part of a substitution cipher which, when decoded, reveals a message. The message runs throughout the book's pages. It can be deciphered using a section of the book's text which gives a passage in Gnommish from The Book of the People, and then its English translation. The code speaks of the storyline of this book, and its sequel; the Gnommish cipher key can be found in The Artemis Fowl Files.

Answer 2

I would assume artemis Fowl is the main subject of the book, presuming he is from a nation with a royal family.

Answer 3

I read it a LOOOONG time ago....
But I think that Artemis was like an evil genius person.
And some elves tried to stop him from doing some bad stuff.....
Sorry, I can't remember anything more!
BUT I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BOOK!!!!

Answer 4

In Barcelona, Spain, Artemis Fowl II and Butler, his bodyguard, wait for a demon. They eventually encounter a demon who would have taken Artemis through time had Butler not touched Artemis and worn silver cuffs. The silver allows Butler to pull Artemis back through time. Meanwhile, Wing Commander Vinyáya brings Holly Short and Mulch Diggums, who have recently been working on their semi-successful PI business, to secret organisation Section Eight which monitors demon activity. There, Foaly informs them that Artemis Fowl was able to predict a demon materialisation that they were not. Holly is sent to ask Artemis how he could chart the information so accurately.
On the demon island of Hybras, which is suspended in "Limbo" (where time is nonexistent), №1, an imp, is bullied because he has not "warped" (changed into a mature demon). After turning a wooden skewer into stone, №1 wonders if he is a warlock, though they all supposedly died. Leon Abbot, the leader of the demon pride, uses something suspiciously like mesmer to urge №1 to leave for the human world.
Artemis, Butler, and Holly arrive at the Massimo Bellini Opera House, where Artemis has predicted a demon appearance. Here again, they see a blond girl they had encountered in Barcelona. Artemis concludes that she knows something about demons. She is identified as Minerva Paradizo. №1 materialises in a dark corner of the stage and is immediately shot with a tranquillizer dart using a rifle disguised as a crutch by Billy Kong, who is one of Minerva's henchmen also known as Jonah Lee. Minerva leaves for her residence with Holly following. №1, in Minerva's home, tells her about demon culture. He also learns that Leon Abbot visited this very place under care and that the spell holding Hybras in Limbo is failing. Holly has feigned unconsciousness and is in a cell with Kong. Holly manages to knock him out.
When Artemis distracts Minerva, Holly and №1 escape. Kong, who has some inaccurate knowledge of demons, demands that Minerva obtain another demon to avenge his deceased brother, for which he holds demons accountable. She is unable to comply, and he takes her hostage. Artemis, however strikes a deal in which he will trade №1 for Minerva at Taipei 101 in Taiwan. Kong plans to strap a bomb onto №1 and remove the silver bullet anchoring №1 to this dimension. However, Artemis has already removed it, and has instructed №1 to drop the silver bullet which he has been holding in his hand. When №1 drops the bullet, he almost immediately dematerialises but the large pendulum coated with silver, which is near where №1 is standing, keeps №1 in this dimension. Holly puts a silver bracelet around №1's arm when he materialises at the apex of the pendulum. Holly flies up to the next story, which is another observation deck under renovation, and encounters a worker. Holly has already mesmerised the worker, so he suspects nothing. They then go down to the 40th floor in the elevator and meet with Artemis, Butler, and Minerva. They go to the Kimsichiog Art Gallery, which has not yet opened. Holly mesmerises the curator to grant them access to the main exhibition, a 10,000 year old sculpture of "dancing figures" that are actually 4 of the 7 demon warlocks, frozen in stone. One of them had died instantly when his head had snapped off, and two more had lost arms and legs. Two more had died from shock and one was missing. Only Qwan, who knew what was coming, had survived. №1 manages to release Qwan. Kong and his group reach the gallery and try to break the door open. Butler shoots the lock with his SIG Sauer 9mm handgun and destroys it. Kong's group manages to shoot the door until it is "drooping slightly on its hinges".[1] Butler rips the door open and drags Kong inside and with the help of Holly's Neutrino. Butler then knocks him to the ground thinking he was unconscious. Minerva kicks him in the leg against Butler's warnings, and Kong grabs Minerva's ankle. Butler steps on Kong's wrist, and he then knocks him unconscious by hitting him between the eyes with his knuckle. In the time this took, Kong's gang gets in the door and one of the men throws a grenade into the room, but Holly shields it with her Section 8 helmet. The bomb gets handcuffed to Holly, so Artemis, Qwan, №1, and Holly devise a plan to use Holly's wings to carry Artemis, Holly, and №1 to the next building over, where Artemis can defuse the bomb. Their plan fails when Holly's wings cut out and they fall against the side of the building. Artemis then puts his backup plan into action by taking off №1's silver bracelet, and they all dematerialise to Hybras. Artemis reasons that the bomb will provide sufficient energy for a spell to reverse the original time-spell. Qwan tells him that at least five magical beings will be necessary. They all think (with the exception of Artemis, who stole some magic in the time tunnel) that there are only three.
On Hybras, Abbot crowns himself the demon king. He is notified that four figures, Artemis, №1, Holly, and Qwan, have appeared on the volcano. They accuse him of using the mesmer, but he states that demons cannot use magic. Artemis claims that Abbot took magic from Qwan's apprentice and stole it from the time tunnel. When Abbot asks for proof, Artemis reveals that he stole some magic himself. When Abbot states that this is not possible, he demonstrates the fact by creating a spark out of the magic he took from the tunnel, unknown to his companions. With this development, then there will be five magical beings present (Abbot included), enough to reverse the time spell. Holly dies, but Artemis takes advantage of the time spell's disintegration and consequent irregularity to bring her back to life. Artemis, having no experience with magic, is guided by Qwan, and the 'magic circle' is formed. However, not enough magic is available, as Abbot does not contribute enough. At that moment, Qweffor, Qwan's former apprentice, makes his appearance, revealing he has been living in Abbot after the first time spell was interrupted. With Qweffor's increased magic, the party is able to return to Artemis and Holly's dimension.
When they land back in the 21st century, Artemis notices that he has switched an eye with Holly. Even though Qweffor's consciousness has once again been taken over by Abbot, №1 manages to expand Qweffor's consciousness enough to shut Abbot out. Unfortunately, the party is three years off into the future. Artemis now has twin brothers, Ark Sool has been fired, and Mulch has continued the PI firm, also recruiting Doodah Day, a pixie that he arrested with Holly at the start of the book. When Artemis sees Butler, now with a beard, Butler reveals that Minerva has grown to be "quite a beautiful young woman" who talks about Artemis extensively and that he is now the big brother of twins.