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As children's and youth book "Meg Finn and The Wish List" is listed - I have two stages of life far behind me, but, as already Erich Kästner once said: "Most people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget it as a phone number that no longer applies. "And I carry my childhood with such an old hat, from which would not let you. And that's good!

Quite apart from this novel is one of the most readable of recent years. Eoin Colfer, a former elementary school teacher from Wexford to the Irish, author of "Artemis Fowl" series, has a terrific piece of literature scattered among mankind. A clever, astute and witty novel. Although Meg Finn in the first chapter of the book blesses the temporal, and due to the fact that she is killed by an exploding gas tank, "blessed" is perhaps not quite the right word is, the book per se, not a novel about death, but also, and just about life. (Death is a final period of your life and not a very decisive wegzudiskutierender part of it.)

Tragically, Meg is only 14 years old. Your partner in the actions of her life is pretty messed up Belch, older than her ("[...] I'm sixteen, and therefore fully responsible for my actions.") And owner of a pit bull named Raptor. As is clear from early zeimlich Meg, that is beneath the hard shell is a good core, Belch roughly the exact opposite of sensitive - and a clear candidate for hell. The way he can tread faster than expected.

And then came the big mistake. The one who did all the other mistakes that night erscheien Stümperns the downright ridiculous. It was the last error that should make the Belch ever.

What can be worse than breaking a pensioner who has a gun? This weapon to take to the old gentleman with a dog bite wound bleeding to leave his fate - and his partner Meg to shoot right in front of a rusty gas tank, which has taken from one of the shot, nothing better to do, to explode as.

The first moments as the mind are quite confusing. The mind thinks that everything is as usual, and tries to apply the laws of physics to the spirit world.

Belch, however, must also be at 16 his life and travels as a Pit Bull Belch mottled with Meg sorting through the long tunnel.

Where the hell's going, turn off the peculiar creature, but with Meg the matter is not so clear: it stands on the brink - and slams against a wall first. ("Although speed had no meaning in the spiritual world, because the rules of the kinetics were not, but it did hurt anyway.")

"Did not die at fourteen, she went through a difficult phase," but the fact of being dead, they will not pass. Dear to heaven, she thinks, imagines how she might their bad childhood with Peter Franco, the repugnant and vicious ex-spouse of a deceased parent, one can only imagine, and so credibly demonstrate gain access to heaven - but the plans of the post-mortem soul-recycling firm are somehow different.
Lights indicate what about the delinquent; Meg shines in two colors. She has too much to answer for, to be really good, but at the same time good to be really angry. Generally we think of heaven and hell stood together as bastions against implacable enmity, but with Eoin Colfer both floors communicate with state funds. When they were two divisions of the same clubs, but somehow it's that way. The hierarchical problems that intrigue and wounded vanities are already very familiar with - heaven and hell as a reflection of normal life.

To this time to take the shortcut: Peter, who has under his table a Vorhöllenknopf, struggles with his job as a bouncer ("Why had he, who was supposedly so influential and important to spend the whole time at the gates, while all the others the amenities of heaven enjoyed? ") and Jude saved from purgatory had, and Beelzebub, who hates little longer to be called as a boy, with his trident like souls vaporized by strange creatures like Myishi, the computer genius who is surrounded and his to provide Gameboy-playing boss, AKA Satan, Lucifer, the soul of Meg free house, decide to send Meg Finn because of the tie, back to Earth, where they prove themselves - or fail - to. The top executives want their souls, but also the bottom. And boy, his demon character, decides to send back the dog-man mix so that the result fails accordingly.

Who will help Meg? Ironically, Lowrie, the pensioners, the raid was the last act of her life. Lowries leg is still one of the consequences of the bite, but he would like a list of four wishes that he still execute before his own death. The requirements are as unusual as the old man, but still topped the team probably unusual since Steve Martin and John Candy in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". The book will be on Road movie book, a television studio, the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin and the Cliffs of Moher are among other places of the event. It is kissed, played football and spat it all in a most amusing and literary level.

As the retired and the Spirit come together clear what earth-shattering discoveries, fone and how the story ends ("Peter stroked one. Few times over the beard that was worse than waiting for the lottery numbers."), You must already own . read Eoin Colfers novel is the perfect summer reading. And spring reading. All right, you read it but in the fall or winter - the main thing, do this to heart gems.

Postscript: I would caution against reading "Meg Finn and The Wish List" in public. It may seem strange to other people when you're sitting in a jam-packed subway and auflacht unexpectedly loud - and in view of the sustainability of the writing no longer get the grin off my face.
What? Whether I get money from the publisher for the book here so praising to the skies? Times would be an idea to write the publisher and propose just that, but no, I do it purely for personal reasons.

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