He took one look at me when I raised my hand and said I was ill, then nodded his head and told me to go to the bathroom. He's smart and knows when you're faking and when you're being serious. I'd come in near the end of English class, feeling sick. I WAS IN THE BATHROOM at school, sitting down on the toilet, humming a song. But this is a real story, so I have to begin where it really started. If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed. I don't dare.Īnyway, that's enough of an introduction. I'm not even going to tell you the name of my town or country.

I haven't used any real names, not mine, my sister's, my friends, or teachers. well, by the time you get to the end, you'll understand. Everything's true in this book, except for names. One more thing: my name isn't really Darren Shan. I just wanted to make that clear before I began. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. If you fall out of a tree, you break some bones. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool. Audio CD from 115.99 1 Used from 115.99 1 New from 143.99 In the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, New York Times best-seller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan series. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. In books, the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. Everything I describe in this book happened, just as I tell it.

I don't expect you to believe me - I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't lived it - but it is. One will become obvious as this book unfolds. I started with that tale from the past for two reasons. They said I was irresponsible, and from that day on they never again let me have a pet, not even an ordinary garden spider. My parents practically hollered the roof down when they found out what I'd done - the tarantula had cost quite a lot of money. My pet was dead, it was my fault, and there was nothing I could do about it. I cried a lot, but it was too late for tears. Needless to say, things didn't happen quite like they did in the cartoon. He squeezed out of the bag, dusty and dirty and mad as hell. I'd been watching a cartoon in which one of the characters was sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. Gave it all sorts of treats: flies and cockroaches and tiny worms. I played with that spider almost every waking hour of the day. It wasn't poisonous or very big, but it was the greatest gift I'd ever received. When I was nine, my mom and dad gave me a small tarantula. The baby spiders would hatch after a while and eat me alive, from the inside out. Going to sleep, I used to imagine the spider creeping down, crawling into my mouth, sliding down my throat, and laying loads of eggs in my belly. I had one who made a cobweb above my bed and stood guard for almost a month. Usually, the spider would slip away after no more than a day or two, never to be seen again, but sometimes they hung around longer. When I found one, I'd bring it in and let it loose in my bedroom. I'd spend hours rooting through the dusty old shed at the bottom of our garden, hunting the cobwebs for lurking eight-legged predators. I used to collect them when I was younger. Urn:oclc:871041690 Republisher_date 20160819153310 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 649 Scandate 20160818144548 Scanner 'VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY spiders.

Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human / half animals who interact terrifyingly with the. OL17699379W Page-progression lr Pages 198 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0007320884 In the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot, New York Times bestseller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:09:40.905115 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1144220 City London Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition External-identifier

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