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Les Aventures de Tintin / Les Sept Boules de Crystal (French edition of the Seven Crystal Balls) / Book and DVD Package | 
| Author: Herge
Publisher: French & European Pubns
Category: Book
Buy New: $69.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2448965
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0686545915
EAN: 9780686545910
ASIN: 0686545915
Publication Date: January 1, 2000
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Customer Reviews:
A mysterious Incan curse (part 1 of 2) December 5, 2004
Tintin and Captain Haddock go to a psychic show. There an Indian fakir puts his assistant into a trance. She forsees a mysterious illness striking a photographer on a recent expedition to recover Incan artifacts. One by one the researchers on the expedition fall into mysterious comas. Near each lies a shattered crystal ball...
For some comic relief here Captain Haddock tries hard to be oh so proper (he has recently aquired his ancestral estate and title). He is fixated on wearing a monocle at all times. This is an involved mystery with many clever bits of detective work and technology used by the characters. This particular book is definitely the first of two parts and doesn't stand alone. At the end of this one Tintin and the Captain are off in pursuit of a potential villain. But we still don't know what was in the crystal balls or how it connects to the Incan curse, and a major character has been kidnapped and not reunited with the heros. So you will have to read Prisoners of the Sun to not be left hanging after this one.
If you are reading this to help learn French, Tintin comics are good for reading at a French 2 level. There are a lot of words that aren't basic vocabulary but it is still easy to follow the story because the writing and pictures tend to reinforce each other. The video can help with pronouncing as you hear the spoken French. However this is a two part mystery and you are going to be reading two books, so if this is overload then try another Tintin comic instead.
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