false 4835 34 Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. <i>Haroun and the Sea of Stories</i> is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration: <BLOCKQUOTE> So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive. <P> "And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that. </BLOCKQUOTE> 1934157 book 1990 Haroun and the Sea of Stories total:4276|5:1704|4:1485|3:841|2:193|1:53| 4276 17422 5369 565 2 4 false false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 23:54:50 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 00:03:27 -0700 2008
"Haroun an...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Dec 17 07:08:36 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 07:28:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 07:29:30 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 12 07:50:03 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 13:00:57 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 13:06:41 -0700 2007
Haroun's dad is a story teller. His life is happy until one day his mom leaves him an...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 08:34:13 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 08:43:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 11:59:57 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 10:09:35 -0700 2008 I thought this would make a good reading assignment for a middle schooler. I can't say it affected me any which way at age 42 except that I was not immune to the horribly...more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Mar 11 15:40:10 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:59:08 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 15:40:10 -0700 2009 3 2 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 17:20:36 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 10:57:21 -0800 2008 So let's start of by saying that this book, its awesome
i really appreciate that Ms Erickson & Ms Zar-Kesler take
time to read it to us during ELA class. This book is funny & very interesting. I like books that are funny so yeah this one fits right in.]]> 3 2 false false Mon Oct 27 16:37:06 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 22 07:15:58 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Sat Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu May 01 10:28:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 10:28:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 29 13:17:32 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 04 10:22:46 -0700 2007 The Phantom Tollbooth. Haroun's father, Rashid, is touted as the greatest story teller in all of India, until his mother runs off with their next door neighbor, a sniveling clerk who asks, "what is the point of stories if they aren...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 26 06:29:47 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 09 07:19:52 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 06:29:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 09 16:13:11 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 22 16:41:19 -0800 2008 once more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Dec 15 18:53:15 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 18:54:37 -0800 2008
Rushdie is a damned good writer. I'm LOVING this. As with Satanic Verses, I'm savoring every word, every line, trying not to go too fast because I don't want it to be over. I'm halfway through and I can't afford any more time to read it. One more w...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 00:47:08 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 00:53:13 -0700 2009
The book is the story...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 21 14:23:12 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 14:23:20 -0700 2009 "What are you going to make me fail at now?"
"Far away on the horizon forked lightning glittered once. Haroun felt his blood run cold."
"Don't you know girls have to fool people everyday of their lives if they want to get anywhere...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 17 08:56:48 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 08:59:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false true Thu Feb 26 06:43:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 20 13:02:24 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 06:43:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 01 13:10:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 13:11:17 -0700 2009 I preface my comments by saying that I'm not usually drawn to fantasy genre. I don't particularly like The Hobbit and I'm really in the minority regarding Harry Potter.
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The setting of this chapter is at P2C2E house then to the at the boat house then back to the valley of K. the problem was that Haroun had to go to the P2C2E house to talk to the walrus about the wish he had made that had destroyed an expensive machinery. He had asked his friend...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1000014