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Fact: A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there...When the Goon turns up demanding "Archer's two thousand", life turns upside-down. As Howard desperately tries to get to the bottom of this peculiar demand, he discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards (not all of whom live in the present!) and someone is trying to take over the world! Exciting, bizarre and truly hilarious!
- Sales Rank: #1391849 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.76" h x .87" w x 5.12" l, .59 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review
"...Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones's most outrageous plots to her readers' hopes and fears..." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Diana Wynne Jones spent her childhood in Essex and has been writing fantasy novels for children since 1973. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she has been enthralling children and adults with her work ever since. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in 1981, and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. She is married with three sons, and lives in Bristol with her husband.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Totally fun (and not outta print anymore!)
By Christa Carlson
This book was way fun to read, full of humor, magic and character. Amazing to think that when Diana Wynne Jones wrote this even SHE didn't know what was going to happen.
Howard Sykes comes home one day to find a goon- a huge dirty guy, anyway- sitting in his kitchen, saying that he comes from Archer, and refusing to move until he gets the 2000 words Howard's father owes him.
But the words got misplaced by Fifi, a college student who stays at the Sykes's house. So Fifi, Howard and Howard's little sister, Awful (who can live up to her name at times) go to find it.
Well, one thing leads to another and they soon find out that the whole town is run by 7 wizards (who are all related).
For me to give you a play by play here would take too long, but if you're thinking of reading this or just looking for a great book to read, I HIGHLY recommend this.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A clever story filled with magic and realism
By Glen Engel Cox
I had been wanting to read Archer's Goon for quite some time, following my discovery of Jones' Chrestomanci series and generally feeling that she was my type of writer, something that hadn't been dispelled by the enjoyment of a couple of her other novels like Eight Days of Luke and Howl's Moving Castle (which, I believe, is soon to be a motion picture). But Archer's Goon had been originally published in 1984 and no one had seen fit to bring it back into print. I searched in vain at used book stores while at the same time refusing to pay for overpriced copies over the Internet.
Then J.K. Rowling happened (the analogy to a force of nature is intended), and young adult novels with magic in them have returned to the bestseller lists and the bookshelves. HarperCollins likely combed through their backlist to find this, and I'm glad they did, for it finally gave me an affordable chance to read this novel.
The anticipation was well worth it, too. The book starts immediately with the introduction of the Goon of the title (an oversized ogre of a man) crowding the Sykes household, which consists of the protagonist Howard, aged 13; his little sister Awful; their live-in sitter Fifi; their father Quentin, a writer; and their mother Catriona, a music teacher. Archer sent the Goon there to collect 2,000 words from Quentin, something that Archer...and Archer's brothers and sisters...believe is keeping them from ruling the world. Wait? What was that again?
Yes, Archer is a wizard, and so is the rest of his family. But none of them trust the others, although they've divided the town up into different areas that each of them "farm": for example, Shine controls crime, Torquil music, Dillian law and order, Erskine the sewers, and Archer controls electricity and gas. But one of them is keeping the others from branching out and controlling the world, and it has something to do with those 2,000 words that Howard's father Quentin provides every month. Unfortunately, Quentin refuses to write those words for any of those people--not wanting to help them take over the world--and the wizards begin causing all sorts of problems for the Sykes family very quickly.
The pleasure of Jones' books is how the magic is integrated as a natural part of her worlds. While the characters who aren't magicians still see the magic as surprising, they quickly come to accept and even understand it. In the context of a children's book, such ready acceptance of the irrational mirrors the arbitrary world around young people, which oftentimes seems, if not actually is, illogical: Why can't I stay out late? Why don't we ever see dad's brothers for holidays? Why don't we always let the answering machine answer the phone, even when we are here?
Archer's Goon has plenty of twists in it, as Howard and Awful learn more about the world around them, including how their parents react to each other and the two of them, not to mention the secret of the Goon. I recommend this one highly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
young, and not so young readers delight
By Samantha A. Mcmahon
I first read this book as a teenager, and loved it. It is modern, and wierd, and it made me laugh so hard sometimes, my parents thought I was having fits. As an adult I reread it for nostalgia, and still found it as amusing.
In a suburb of England lives the Sykes family, father Quentin a professor at the Poly-tech, mother a music teacher, Howard the eldest child, Aweful the baby sister, and Fifi the student who lives with them. A basic family until one day a Goon shows up, won't tell them really why he is there, and refuses to leave. According to Goon, Mr. Sykes is late on his payments to Archer, one of several, incredibly spoiled, sorcerous siblings, who run the city. The family isn't sure what to make of this simple statement and go round and round the city trying to clear things up. In the meantime Goon has settled into the Sykes home and is making life for the Sykes family very complicated, and often unpleasant. It is left to Howard to resolve this fantastically wierd situation, as he tracks down and meets with the various siblings of Archer, in an attempt to find the one responsible for disrupting his family. There are some very interesting and unusual discoveries that Howard makes with the help of Goon, and all the characters are just wonderful. I would recommend this book to a wide variety of fantasy readers.
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