Asterix and Cleopatra

Julius Caesar is having an argument with Cleopatra,The Egyptian queen.Caesar finally says that the egyptians have done nothing great when compared to the Romans and so the romans are greater then Cleopatra's people.Cleopatra resists this and argues further.Finally Cleopatra makes a bet to Caesar thet her people will build a magnicifcent new palace for Caesar within three months.After this Cleopatra summons Edfis, one of the best architects in Egypt to complete the task.If succesful He was to be covered with gold coins otherwise the sacred crocodiles of Egypt were in for a feast!.Edfis could not defy a royal order, so he sets off to gaul to ask for help

                                                  As soon as he landed in gaul he asked the help of Getafix to build the palace.Geatfix agrees to go and with him go Asterix and Obelix.Dogmatix is forbade by Asterix not to come as he was too little for such a big journey.Obelix accepts with great resistance.

                                                  The work goes on schedule thanks to the magic potion brewed by Getafix even  they were slowed down by Artfis, an arch rival of Edfis.The building is on the verge of completion when Caesar sends some legions to interrupt.The Gauls put up a resistance.Very soon the Romans start bombarding the palace with stones.Obelix sends a message to Cleopatra through Dogmatix.Cleopatra gets to know of the recent doings of Caesar and sets off immediately to the construction site where Julius Ceasar gets a good set of scoldings from the Egyptian Queen.The Romans were ordered to repair the palace.

                                                  Cleopatra wins her bet.Finally Edfis is covered with gold,Getafix with scrolls and manuscripts.As usual a banquet is held in Armorican village without Cacofonix the bard of course!

Dogmatix

He is Dogmatix,Obelix's dog.He his very small and is a very smart dog who starts thinking about deforestation even in that time.I mention this because Dogmatix is sad whenever a tree is felled.He can act as couriers and also hunt boars.He is the perfect dog for Obelix.
Dogmatix was first introduced in the book Asterix and the banquet.

asterix and the banquet

The Romans try to isolate the Gauls from the rest of the world by building a stockade around their village.Our friends Asterix and Obelix make a bet to the romans that they get past through their baricade and get all the local specialities from the surrounding places and give their prefect a feast.Our friends also meet many difficulties like a Gaulish traitor and theives.This is the very first book in which Obelix's dog Dogmatix is introduced.

Asterix the gladiator

The prefect of Gaul wants to give Julius Caesar a present, so he tells his men to capture a Gaul.The Romans capture Cacofonix the bard and send him away to Rome.By the time the Gauls realise that he is missing,it was too late.So our friends Asterix and Obelix board a Phoenician merchant ship and went to Rome.Meanwhile Caesar is not pleased with his gift so he decides to throw him to the lions.Our friends sign up as gladiators teach their new gladiator friends some new techniques during their training and then they save their bard.
And this is the first book in which Obelix starts his popular comment "These Romans are crazy"

asterix and the goths

The village druid Getafix has to leave for the forest of carnutes for the annual druid conference. Asterix druid Getafix has to leave for the forest of carnutes for the annual druid conference. Asterix and Obelix are worried about their druid's safety so they accompany them.The Gauls wait outside the forest as only druids are allowed inside.The druids there perform amazing feats and is onlooked by all the druids and unknown to them also by a batch of goths who plan on kidnapping the best druid and make himhelp them with the invasion of rome.Our friends wait and wait but Getafix is nowhere in sight, and so they go inside the forest and find a visigoth helmet.So our friends leave for the land of the goths.They wait until they find their disguise and then surrender themselves to their so that they can meet Getafix again.Getafix is asked by a interperter on behalf of the chief can he help them or not.Getafix says no,but interperter for his own safety says yes to the chief. Unknown to the interperter the druid speaks gothic fluently and so reveals the plot to the gothic chief who throws everyone in prison and plans to kill them the next day. Meanwhile Getafix prepares the magic potion on pretext of a soup as his last wish. He gives this to the interperter who overthrows the present chief on the day of punishment.The Gauls keep on giving potion to every goth and motivates the to become the chief.This causes complete confusion and so causes confusion among the Goths which discourages them to invade Rome.Finaly the story ends with a blue sky under which a banquet is held.

asterix and the golden sickle

All Gaul is at peace.

Wait did I say all of Gaul, looks like the druid had just broken his golden sickle, without which he cannot attend the annual druid conference .So he sends our heroes Asterix and Obelix to get him a new sickle . As our friends proceed to luteia they find the cost of sickles is above their budget and the best sickle maker,metallgurix is also missing.The Gauls smell a plot and so unfolds this another brilliant story by Gosciny and Uderzo.

Will Getafix attend the annual druid confernce?

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Asterix the gaul.

The very first book written by Goscinny and Uderzo in the Asterix series is this book.The centurion of the neighbouring Roman camp is very curious about the Gaul's superhuman strenght,so he sends a spy to find out.Then after the spy returns, the centurion kidnaps the druid to learn the secret recipe of the magic potion.Asterix is worried that getafix has not returned and so he finds out that the druid is kidnapped.So,he infiltrates the Roman camp and surrenders himself.This is followed by a very hairy story!.
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asterix story books 30-

The final set

• Asterix and the class act
• Asterix and the actress
• Asterix and the falling sky

asterix books 21-30

The next set of books are

• Asterix and Caeser's gift
• Asterix and the great crossing
• Obelix & co.
• Asterix in Belgium
• Asterix and the great divide
• Asterix and the black gold
• Asterix and son
• Asterix and the secret weapon
• Asterix and the magic carpet
• Asterix and Obelix all at sea

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asterix story books 11-20

The next set of 10 books are

• Asterix and the chieftains shield
• Asterix at the Olympic games
• Asterix and the cauldron
• Asterix in Spain
• Asterix and the Roman agent
• Asterix in Switzerland
• The mansions of the gods
• Asterix and the laurel wreath
• Asterix in Corsica

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asterix story books 1-10

There are totally 31 story books in the asterix series.(on the 28th of may 2008)
The first ten books are

• Asterix the Gaul
• Asterix and the golden sickle
• Asterix and the Goths
• Asterix the gladiator
• Asterix and the banquet
• Asterix and Cleopatra
• Asterix and the big fight
• Asterix in Britain
• Asterix and the Normans
• Asterix the legionary

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julius ceasar-asterix

Julius Ceasar,The ruler of the roman empire can be often seen here in our hero's adventures,trying to foil their plans.He is always seen wearing his laurel wreath.This old fellow also enjoys going to the circus maximus to see the gladiators and his old friends with the lions.

cacofonix

Cacofonix, the bard and school master of this village is a very gifted person who can bring down rain whenever he wants by his unique singing.He always wants to sing a farewell or all the best song but his friends control him with more politer measures such as cracking his head with an anvil or tieing him up.Aah! such friendship can never be seen!

vitalstatistix

Vitalstatistix,the chief of the indomitable gauls.He always moves around on his shield with two shield bearers.He is a plump gaul and a fearless leader with no fear except that the sky may fall on his head. The shield he stands on is the very own shield of Vercingetorix, the chief of entire gaul(whom ceaser had recently conquered).

getafix

Getafix,the druid of the indomitable gauls is the brewer of the magic potion which gives our friends the superhuman strength to overpower ceaser's men.He is constantly busy collecting mistletoe and also winning the druid of the year award in the forest of the carnutes.He also has many more tricks up his sleeve than brewing magic potion.

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Obelix

He is second hero of this series.He is a menhir delivery man and a person who accepts that he is well built but not fat.Because Obelix fell inside a cauldron of magic potion when he was a baby he has the permanent effect of the magic potion.He always longs to drink some magic potion to just find the taste of it.There is no problem for him as long as he has his friend Asterix, his dog Dogmtix and have lots of wild boar near by.

asterix

Asterix, the hero of this series is a shrewd and cunning little warrior.He and his friend Obelix always volounteer on dangerous missions.Asterix is a bachelor and thought by the village people to be the most favourite person of their druid.He also likes to go wild-boar and legionary hunting.

asterix main characters

The main characters are:-

• Asterix
• Obelix
• Getafix
• Vitalstatistix
• Cacofonix
• Julius Ceaser

asterix the gaul

All of Gaul is occupied by the Romans
What??
Did I say all of Gaul?
One small village still holds out against the invaders.The village of the indomitable Gauls!
This village is surrounded by four Roman camps and the Armorican coast.

1. Compendium
2. Laudanum
3. Totorum
4. Aquarium

These Gauls are powered by a magic potion whose recipe is only known to their druid Getafix.This potion gives them superhuman strength by which our Gaulish friends hold out the invading romans so easily.Some of the main characters are Asterix,Obelix,Getafix and Vitalstatistix.

There are totally 35 books(On 16th of May 2008) of which 4 are game books and the others are all story books.

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Start with reading comics like

• The adventures of Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny
• The adventurs of Tintin by Herge

Continue reading comics until you belive that you are ready to move on to the next level.Do the same for everystage and very soon you will become a great reader

Then read short stories that are illustrated with pictures. There is no direct examples of such type of books but you can buy them in any good bookstore.

Next read short stories which are non-illustrated.

After this read the children's classics(read this even if you are an adult). Can you guess it?. Alice in wonderland? Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs?.No! absolutely not! It is the latest version of classics, it's Harry potter!(don't get scared by the size of the book,think of the excitement that awaits you!)

After this you have finally reached the final stage of reading : Novels!

A novel is a long narrative that is usually fictious and in the form of a story.There are many types of novels such as thrillers,religious,scientific and mystery.

Most novels are of combined type like the book angels and demons, which i read recently.this book is religious, scientific and mainly a thriller. One can also a historical novel too.

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Reading is a very useful habit.
If you develop it at an young age it will be very useful.Belive me! When are you young?.Is it at the the age of ten or twelve?
NO!!.you are always young.
if you have not started reading then start now!!.does it take any special skill?. no.
Some people lose interest in reading easily.This is because they don't know how to start reading, if you start in the way mentioned in the link mentioned above you will develop a passion for reading and you will learn to respect it

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Start with reading comics like

• The adventures of Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
• The adventurs of Tintin by Herge

Continue reading comics until you belive that you are ready to move on to the next level.Do the same for everystage and very soon you will become a great reader

Then read short stories that are illustrated with pictures. There is no direct examples of such type of books but you can buy them in any good bookstore.

Next read short stories which are non-illustrated.

After this read the children's classics(read this even if you are an adult). Can you guess it?. Alice in wonderland? Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs?.No! absolutely not! It is the latest version of classics, it's Harry potter!(don't get scared by the size of the book,think of the excitement that awaits you!)

After this you have finally reached the final stage of reading : Novels!

A novel is a long narrative that is usually fictious and in the form of a story.There are many types of novels such as thrillers,religious,scientific and mystery.

Most novels are of combined type like the book angels and demons, which i read recently.this book is religious, scientific and mainly a thriller. One can also a historical novel too.

What is reading?

Reading is a very useful habit.
If you develop it at an young age it will be very useful.Belive me!
When are you young?.Is it at the the age of ten or twelve?
NO!!.you are always young.
if you have not started reading then start now!!.does it take any special skill?. no.
Some people lose interest in reading easily.This is because they don't know how to start reading, if you start in the way mentioned in the link mentioned above you will develop a passion for reading and you will learn to respect it