- Hardcover: 262 pages
- Publisher: Perfection Learning (Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0756956552
- ISBN-13: 978-0756956554
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,096,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Reading a novel by Debi Gliori is an experience like no other you will ever have with a book in your hands. They are journeys into as imaginative and chaotic a mind as it is possible to explore with words on a page. Pure Dead Brilliant is the latest instalment in the crazy lives of the Strega-Borgia family in their country pile of StregaSchloss in Scotland. Following on from Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked, this is an in-your-face adventure that is utterly exhausting and delightfully surreal.
The cast of characters are as multitudinous and as colourful as before. Young Titus Strega-Borgia is on the threshold of inheriting his grandfather's millions, and it is driving a wedge between him and his estranged sister Pandora. Lucifer Di S'Embowelli Borgia is the disfigured, twisted uncle of Titus who thinks the money should be his and wants to kill Titus to get it. Damp Strega-Borgia is the infant sister of Titus and Pandora who just happens to be realising that she is a powerful magician and is causing mayhem with her youthful magic games. Fiamma D'Infer is an impostor student witch who is really Astoroth--a second minister of the Hadean executive who has lost an item most precious to his "Boss" that he must recover at all costs. Unfortunately, this item is somewhere in StregaSchloss and this devil in disguise will stop at nothing to get it. It's all a recipe for much mirth and hammy disaster.
Fast and funny, exotic and madcap, Pure Dead Brilliant is populated by a menagerie of witches, dragons, rats, spiders and mythical beasts that are all thoroughly entertaining. You won't forget this book in a hurry. Suitable for ages 10 and over) --John McLay --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Product Description
There's trouble brewing at StregaSchloss! When Signora Strega-Borgia invites some would-be witches to stay, weird things begin to happen. Pandora can't resist the temptation of time travel – and Titus picks up a strange and deadly computer virus. Are they falling under the witches' spell? Or is the ghost of the Strega-Borgias' past coming back to haunt them all?
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have to admit I was being shallow when I read the first book in this series. It looked gorgeous on my shelf!
Having read all 4 to date I can tell you they are amazing! A family kinda based on the Addams family and just as entertaining. This one is my favourite purely because I love the baby Damp. Damp is amazing and says the cutest things. Plus we discover in this book that she is much more than we thought she was. All the monsters are hillairous especially new mother Frup and Tock the crocodile. Pandora and titus, the main characters have some great dialogue and mrs Macclochlan is the nanny we all wished we had had as a kid.
Read this book, it is amazing and read the others you won't regret it!
Having read all 4 to date I can tell you they are amazing! A family kinda based on the Addams family and just as entertaining. This one is my favourite purely because I love the baby Damp. Damp is amazing and says the cutest things. Plus we discover in this book that she is much more than we thought she was. All the monsters are hillairous especially new mother Frup and Tock the crocodile. Pandora and titus, the main characters have some great dialogue and mrs Macclochlan is the nanny we all wished we had had as a kid.
Read this book, it is amazing and read the others you won't regret it!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I started reading this to my children. Got three chapters in and we all decided it wasn't worth the effort.
The dialogue is stilted, the characters are best described as borrowed, the general style is over wordy, and character and place names come from the Douglas Adams school of the irritatingly unpronouncable.
There's a dragon called ffup, which is puff backwards. That's how funny it is.
The dialogue is stilted, the characters are best described as borrowed, the general style is over wordy, and character and place names come from the Douglas Adams school of the irritatingly unpronouncable.
There's a dragon called ffup, which is puff backwards. That's how funny it is.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
5 reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Where was her editor?
21 Nov 2003
Format:Hardcover
My son (nearly 9) and I consumed Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked! We were so excited to discover Pure Dead Brilliant was coming out that I pre-ordered it in hard back (something I never do). Unfortunately we barely made it through a hundred pages. Ms Gliori is, indeed, brilliant (!) but we had two major problems with this book. It's darker than the others in the series (too dark for a 9 year old?) and, despite the wonderful characters, is horribly over written. Where was her editor! The long flowery sentences, packed with adjectives and adverbs, killed the humour and our interest in the plot. I struggled to read them, and my son struggled to listen. It seemed every few minutes one of us was saying "wait a minute, what was that?" Or, in our less intellectual moments, "huh?" Finally we gave up. Despite the $18. And went back to The Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawrence, with hugh sighs of relief.
Delightful
9 Jun 2007
Format:Paperback
Somewhere between the Adams Family and the Munsters meets Harry Potter lies the wonderfull world of the Pure Dead Magic series. Fun and imaginative. I haven't been a kid in quite a while and I still enjoyed the stories, the people, and the creatures in this unlikely corner of Scotland!
Great!
23 Jun 2005
Format:Hardcover
I just finished reading this, and i think it was the best in the series! I loved it!
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
