I was initially very sceptical about it, but that hardened into extremely sceptical after an interview in which he appears to be saying that he jollied it up a bit by sticking in cameos by the characters from his Artemis Fowl books.

Right now I've got it filed in the same category as the Matrix sequels, the Star Wars prequels, post-Goscinny Asterix, Heroes after the first series, the third Gormenghast book, Foundation books after the first three, and Dune books after the first one. But I'd be very pleased to hear whether it should come out of that box.

Peter