Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
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Read in March, 2008
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Katie! Thanks again!:Drecommends it for: Fans of great stories and detailed plots and characters
What a great story!
This is quite the page-turner! I was driven to read more by both the action/adventure and the plot/conclusion. Both are excellently written! Funke’s style of writing (and indeed the translation made by Anthea Bell) makes for a smooth and beautiful read.
Wonderfully drawn and very detailed characters fill this book from cover to cover, each character being unique and complete. The story is told from multiple viewpoints, which adds another interesting dimension to the s...more
This is quite the page-turner! I was driven to read more by both the action/adventure and the plot/conclusion. Both are excellently written! Funke’s style of writing (and indeed the translation made by Anthea Bell) makes for a smooth and beautiful read.
Wonderfully drawn and very detailed characters fill this book from cover to cover, each character being unique and complete. The story is told from multiple viewpoints, which adds another interesting dimension to the s...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
kids and teens with a large imagination
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Some fantasies can be really out there and hard to understand but Inkheart is a fantasy that more expresses life. Of course weird things do happen but each character has to fight for their life or their loved one's. They have to find themselves and struggle through fear and find love. It left me feeling excited. Every action they made was unpredictable and had great meaning. The mood was really strong along with the tone of the authors explanation. The author really wanted you...more
Some fantasies can be really out there and hard to understand but Inkheart is a fantasy that more expresses life. Of course weird things do happen but each character has to fight for their life or their loved one's. They have to find themselves and struggle through fear and find love. It left me feeling excited. Every action they made was unpredictable and had great meaning. The mood was really strong along with the tone of the authors explanation. The author really wanted you...more
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Read in October, 2007
Hoo boy did I love this novel. Firstly, it's a book about books and the people who love them. You really can't go wrong starting from there.
For a young adult novel, it has several interesting quirks. Maybe it's because I'm used to reading about American and British heroes and heroines in my YA novels, and this book is translated from the German, but it was a nice change to have a different setting ... from what I could tell, this book takes place mostly in Italy.
And it avoids many of...more
For a young adult novel, it has several interesting quirks. Maybe it's because I'm used to reading about American and British heroes and heroines in my YA novels, and this book is translated from the German, but it was a nice change to have a different setting ... from what I could tell, this book takes place mostly in Italy.
And it avoids many of...more
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Read in May, 2008
Oy... I really wanted to like this book. I had such high hopes for it. It was one of those books that whenever my students saw me reading it they said, "Oh, I really liked that book! It was so good." So, I thought it would be great. It just wasn't. The story was nice. In short (very short): Meggie's father repairs books. Her mother disappeared nine years ago. After a mysterious visitor shows up at their house, Meggie finds out that her father has a secret. He can read characters out of...more
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Read in June, 2007
"Dustfinger waited motionless beside the bed until she was breathing regularly again, then leaned over her treasure chest with a deep sigh and put the book back under the others.
Soundlessly, he closed the lid...
He went on listening to Meggie's quiet breathing for a few moments, then stole back to the door. 'Well, what does it matter?' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in advance?"
Imagine it were possible to bring the characters f...more
Soundlessly, he closed the lid...
He went on listening to Meggie's quiet breathing for a few moments, then stole back to the door. 'Well, what does it matter?' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in advance?"
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Read in October, 2007
I liked this book because so much of it felt accurate and familiar. The characters had raw, messy emotions. They were complex and they struggled to do the right thing. So many of the kids books that I read don't feel "serious" enough. A happy ending is guaranteed from the first page and you are only making your way toward it. Inkheart did not feel like that at all. At the end, everything was not tied up in a bow. It was more complex than that.
It is the story of Meggie and her fath...more
It is the story of Meggie and her fath...more
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Well...I'm not real sure what to say about this book but basically its.....long.
It's not that i don't read long books I've read plenty of them , but its just not a book you want to read in your small amounts of spare time. Like if you can grab ten minutes at lunch or something.
I say this because you have to find a good stopping point because if you stop in the middle of whatever is going on you'll soon lose all understanding in this pit of confusion. BUT if your on a seven hour trip to w...more
It's not that i don't read long books I've read plenty of them , but its just not a book you want to read in your small amounts of spare time. Like if you can grab ten minutes at lunch or something.
I say this because you have to find a good stopping point because if you stop in the middle of whatever is going on you'll soon lose all understanding in this pit of confusion. BUT if your on a seven hour trip to w...more
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Read in January, 2007
Have you ever wanted to literally DIVE INTO the books you're reading? That's exactly what happens in this very unique story - you'll follow our main character's journey into a book (and some other interesting travels to and from this fictional book) and you'll experience all kinds of page turning suspense as our characters struggle to stay safe. It's hard to describe this book more than what's already written on the cover without spoiling it. Suffice it to say that the adults will love it too!...more
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recommended to Martine by:
Word and fantasy fiends with a vivd imagination...
So I must say this fantasy YA novel is so very well done and crafted in such a way that each chapter begins with an excerpt from classic stories on reading or journeying such that it leaves youth (at me who hasn't read for instance, The Princess Bride!) with an interest and bibliography to follow of books I'd like to read. It is similar in theory to the Neverending Story wherein we can enter the books but what if the creatures and villians *come out* to find you?
On a geeky aside, I worked a...more
On a geeky aside, I worked a...more
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Read in October, 2005
recommends it for:
fantast book lovers
Only reason not 5 stars is that is was a little too LONG!
Enjoyaboe, a kid's fantasy... Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capri...more
Enjoyaboe, a kid's fantasy... Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capri...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Got it at the library.recommends it for: ANYONE!
-from the flap-
Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when someone reads a book with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump of the pages and into your bedroom...but for real. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world.
Then. imagine if those characters brought their world into ours.
One cruel night, young Meggie's father, Mo, reads aloud from Inkheart and an evil ruled named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of...more
Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when someone reads a book with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump of the pages and into your bedroom...but for real. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world.
Then. imagine if those characters brought their world into ours.
One cruel night, young Meggie's father, Mo, reads aloud from Inkheart and an evil ruled named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of...more
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Read in March, 2008
So... I'm still trying to figure out what I think about this book. It's obviously well written. There are some beautiful passages in it. It's a good story. But it's lacks something... I think the fact that there are absolutely no rules for people popping in and out of books makes it seem less believable to me. I hate to compare it to Harry Potter, but I think that is the big difference between the two. Rowling created a world so complete without any loopholes that we believe it. Whereas in Inkhe...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
book lovers, fantasy fans
An employee at an indie bookstore in Durango recommended that I read this when I bought the Golden Compass and the rest of the His Dark Materials trilogy, saying that it's a fantasy book all about books and people who love them and have magical powers when they read them. Yeah! I absolutely loved Inkheart, from the lovely characters and villians sprung out of books, to all of the book references within the text ("pretend you're one of the Lost Boys" when trying to sleep kind of stuff),...more
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Read in April, 2007
This is one of a couple of children's fiction books given to me to read by a co-worker (Amber, who's a bit of a connoisseur of the genre.) While I definitely have my own reading tastes, I think it's good to read outside of them sometimes, especially if you work in a library setting. It's nice to be able to recommend a book because you've read it, not just because you've "heard" that it's good.
So Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is the story of a book-loving girl and her bookbinder father...more
So Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is the story of a book-loving girl and her bookbinder father...more
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Read in March, 2008
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First off, it's a book about a very special book, which automatically makes IT a special book. The characters make it even better.
Meggie is an extremely brave little creature. The bond she shares with her father, Mo, is very important. It is that bond that makes them care for each other enough to risk their lives (for each other), which is the entire story.
Just thinking of Capricorn makes your blood curl. I have a strange passion for villians - not villians, really, but those rare people...more
Meggie is an extremely brave little creature. The bond she shares with her father, Mo, is very important. It is that bond that makes them care for each other enough to risk their lives (for each other), which is the entire story.
Just thinking of Capricorn makes your blood curl. I have a strange passion for villians - not villians, really, but those rare people...more
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Meggie's father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book's wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggie's mother in.
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
fantasy fans and any one really bored
Inkheart
This book is about a young girl named Meggie who lives with her father. One night a mysterious visitor comes to their house and Meggie's life is never the same. Meggie finds out that her father can read things out of books, but when he does, someone or something will disappear into the story. The stranger is a firebreather named Dustfinger whom Mo read out of a book many years ago. Dustfinger is working (kind of) for a man named Capricorn who also came from the book, because he is h...more
This book is about a young girl named Meggie who lives with her father. One night a mysterious visitor comes to their house and Meggie's life is never the same. Meggie finds out that her father can read things out of books, but when he does, someone or something will disappear into the story. The stranger is a firebreather named Dustfinger whom Mo read out of a book many years ago. Dustfinger is working (kind of) for a man named Capricorn who also came from the book, because he is h...more
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Read in July, 2007
A co-worker had mentioned this book to me, knowing that I enjoy fantasy novels and am a huge HP fan. I admit, I was bad and started reading the book at work this past week. But, obviously, couldn't bring it home, since hey, I'm honest like that. :) So I got it yesterday from the library instead, and just finished it now. (Which is good, because I never get to read on Sundays)
I really enjoyed it. The main characters? Love books. Adore books. Collect/fix books. How can I not love characters li...more
I really enjoyed it. The main characters? Love books. Adore books. Collect/fix books. How can I not love characters li...more
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Read in January, 2005
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the characters from your favorite books could jump from the pages and visit you in our world? Cornelia Funke does just that in this story of make-believe that becomes reality and dangerous for Meggie and her father who have a very special gift.
Inkheart has a great story but I think it was drawn out a little too much in some parts. Overall I believe that this is a great book for children and adults alike.
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Inkheart has a great story but I think it was drawn out a little too much in some parts. Overall I believe that this is a great book for children and adults alike.
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