Okay, yes I admit it. I am prolly too old to read the Alex Rider series. For those of you who don’t know, Alex Rider is a 14 y/o James Bond. The series of books, written by Anthony Horowitz, is for young readers, maybe 10 – 17 or so. Totally preposterous, but really a lot of fun to read them, and as you might expect, quite easy to read.
But I have one huge objection. The books that I have are, of course, the “American” version. For whatever reason, the publishers I guess thought that American kids were too stupid to understand that speeds are measured in kph and money in the UK is in pounds, and that soccer is called football in the rest of the world. So all of those things, and many more, were obviously converted to make it more readable for “stupid” American kids. I really resent this dumbing down of the books!
I am very tempted, when I go to London next, to buy the whole series there so I can read them in their original form!
But they are fun, and if you have a young reader, especially a boy, you should get them for him.