Pertama kali mendengar kata “Momo” adalah ketika saya berusia dibawah sepuluh tahun. Kata itu disebutkan oleh tante saya yang baru pulang dari Ambon. “Momo” yang Ia katakan berarti sebutan untuk sejenis hantu atau setan di Ambon. Sejak saat itu mengendaplah kata “Momo” di otak saya dan terasosiasikan dengan hantu. Hingga akhirnya saya mendengar “Momo’ digunakan untuk panggilan adik kecilku.

“Momo” adalah tokoh utama dari sebuah buku yang berjudul sama dengan namanya. Kelebihan dari “Momo” adalah More...

«Quando sei nata?»
Momo ci pensò un po' su e infine disse: «Se mi ricordo bene, ci sono sempre stata».

Riguardo un'introduzione: Se c'è una cosa che io ho amato sempre, sin da bambina, sono le storie. I miei giocattoli preferiti erano le bambole, perché le loro vite le inventavo io; mi piacevano anche i cartoni animati che davano in televisione, mini racconti di dieci minuti da divorare tra una pappetta e l'altra. Quello che amavo di più, però, erano i film d'animazione, in primis quelli della Di More...

4.5/5

Questa è una storia che bisognerà raccontare ai propri figli. Primo esperimento con Michael Endel ben riuscito, La storia infinita entra ufficialmente nella lunga lista dei libri da leggere.
Il messaggio che racchiude Momo non è una scoperta per me, anzi, è un concetto ormai ben radicato nella testolina, però è stata un'avventura piacevolissima comunque. Ed è comunque un messaggio importante da trasmettere ai bambini, che sicuramente adorerebbero questa storia. Ende sicuramente è perfetto p More...

Momo is a classic story that is known as a children's book, yet I believe that adults may even glean more from its reading than younger folk. Momo is written by Michael Ende, the author who is most known in the US for having written The Neverending Story. When I was younger, and my mother ran an independent children's bookstore, she ordered a case of this book, and gave a copy to all of her friends and colleagues.

This is a modern day fairytale, about a little girl named Momo, who moves into a ru More...

You cannot, repeat: cannot, go into this book with the expectations of "hard," realist fiction. Then again, if you know anything about Michael Ende (the author of the Never Ending Story), you won't.

Momo is one of those rare books that would do well in a fourth-grade classes, but is also strangely releveant to adults. The story centers around a girl named Momo who took residence in an ancient, abandoned amphitheater in an unnamed town, which is populated by a series of people who do small-town jo More...

O poveste simpla, spusa pe limbajul copiiilor, despre valuarea timpului si hotii de timp.

La început nu prea bagi de seama. Într-o buna zi nu mai ai chef sa faci nimic. Nimic nu te mai intereseaza, esti plictisit. Iar indispozitia nu dispare, se statorniceste si creste mereu. Se înrautateste de la o zi la alta, de la o saptamîna la alta. Te simti tot mai prost dispus, tot mai gol pe dinauntru, tot mai nemultumit cu sine si cu lumea întreaga. Pe urma treptat dispare chiar si acest sentiment si nu More...

Este libro te demuestra la complejidad de la vida a traves de las de la aparente simplicidad de un cuento de niños, es sin duda uno de mis libros favoritos, mi padre me lo leia todos los dias cuando era pequeña.

Su importancia radica en la naturalidad del la historia y la metafora que imprime , es totalmente extrapolable a la realidad actual.

Los hombres grises existen sin duda, nos absorben nuestro tiempo y nadie es consciente de esto solo los niños que todavia utilizan su imaginacion, son capace More...

Recommended to me by Meltha, one of the smartest people I know, who has a great love for most of the things I love. How could I resist?

10/9 - Why? Why isn't this required reading in schools all over the damn place? Why haven't I heard of this? Why hasn't it been made into a movie like NES?

WHY?????

::ahem::

This book is WONDERFUL! And for the first time since I started keeping my nose in a book 14 hours a day (a girl's gotta sleep), people asked what I was reading, and I had so much fun telling th More...

this book, is one of those stuff where they featured kid as the main character but the idea and story itself bullseye the heart of the adult. If you know what i mean ;)

children will probably understand and later on implement the idea of 'not losing time' when they grow up, if they still remember the story. But that is 'when' and 'if'. But the adult, when they read this, they've passed the 'when' and 'if' already. It implies to them so much, heavily.

value the time you're having.
value the time yo More...

Con Ende si entra in quella situazione per cui un grandissimo scrittore - ripeto, un grandissimo scrittore - rimane ai margini della "critica" (sempre che questo sia un male...), per il banalissimo e cretinissimo motivo che scrive romanzi e racconti per ragazzi. O almeno, perché i suoi romanzi e racconti sono etichettati in quel modo.

Ende - a mio avviso - scrive romanzi e racconti bellissimi - tragici, tremendi, crudeli, illuminanti, toccanti, intelligenti, deliziosi, sensibili, divertenti - che

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Buku yang alurnya lambaaaattttt sekali. Bayangkan!! Q membutuhkan waktu berminggu2 untuk menyelesaikannya (gara2 alur lambat, jadi kerasa membosankan).

Sebagai bandingan aja, q nyelesein Looking for Alibrandi hanya ± 4 jam. Padahal ukuran buku sama, ukuran font sama, halamannya lebih tebel beberapa halaman (agak g ngaruh jg sih), full text (Momo ada beberapa halaman yang isinya gambar), n yang signifikan kualitas kertas lebih jelek (Alibrandi buram, Momo putih) dan ini biasanya sangat mempengaruh More...

I was first introduced to Momo as a child through watching the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091537/?... . Unfortunately, the memory of it as gloomy and dominated by the scary Men in Grey lingered with me and did not encourage me to pick up the book. Luckily, I came across it on a friend’s bookshelf recently and decided to give it another shot. And boy, am I happy that I did!

Although classified as a children’s book, I think it is much more relevant to an adult readership. First published More...

For Valentine's day Bill bought me an English translation of Momo by Michael Ende (Who is famous for The Never Ending Story). We bought a German copy while we were in Berlin on our honeymoon and Bill read the German and thought that I'd really like it. For some reason the chapter titles were shortened for the English translation, which was not as good and it also didn't have the nice illustrations, but the actual text seemed to be translated okay. It really encourage me to practice my German so More...

When I was 10 I was shown a movie entitled 'Momo'. I remember there was this little orphan with an 'unruly mop of jet-black hair' and everything was kind of grey. I also remember that the film was about time.

Three good reasons to embrace the adventure of reading this book, written by the author of 'The Neverending Story', Michael Ende, and published for the first time in 1973 in Germany.

No-one knows Momo's age. She lives by herself in an little room under the ancient amphitheater at the edge of More...

Loaned to me by a friend. I was interested to find out that this author also wrote the Neverending Story, and is German.

This book, like another reviewer said, is readable by fourth graders and adults alike. I would have liked this book if I'd read it as a child, and as an adult, I feel like the author sends a still very relevant message about how time comes from the human heart, and time spent with friends, thinking about life, love, and taking things slow, do not have to mean time wasted. This More...

One day, in a ruined amphitheatre on the edge of a quiet town, a girl named Momo arrives. She's a wild little girl, wearing a man's jacket and a dress made up almost entirely of patches. She makes a home there, and soon becomes the soul of the town. People listen to her, and in listening discover answers and stories that were always there, hidden deep inside themselves.

But then the gray men appeared. They preach a gospel of saving time, and soon everyone in the town becomes hard, rushed, and los More...

Another book I loved! An amazing, whimsy tale about a little girl, it can only classify as a fantasy, and a parable.
An amazing Michael Ende literary achievement, Momo tells the story of a little girl by the same name, in an undefined European country at an undefined time in recent history. Starting with her arrival in a cosy town, it details the unraveling of the town's social threads after the arrival and subsequent popularity of the 'Time Bank' an organisation where you can save time!
While it More...

A fairy tale of a novel, 'Momo' is the kind of book you can read as a child and live in another universe of childishness, or you can read it as a teenager and find it deeper than you had thought possible, or you can read it as an adult - which I will do and then see what I'll gain from it then. It is one of my all-time-favourites, not only because you can read it at whatever your age, but also because the story contains so much understanding of human beings in a

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“Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.”

Tadi pagi kebangunan jam 2 dan tiba-tiba pengen baca ulang salah satu my best book of all time, Momo by Michael Ende. Udah lama banget punya buku ini dan sampai sekarang ceritanya masih berkesan. Kenapa saya pengen baca ulang buku ini? Mungkin karena memang akhir-akhir ini susah sekali mencari orang yang mau mendengar, betul-betul mendengar apa yang kita ceritakan. Everyone is to bussy with their own li More...

THIS is how to write a novel-length fairy tale. The characters are whole and human, the fantasy pure, and all else perfect. I must have more of Michael Ende's work.
Some stories that deal with magic don't explain anything, not even the rules by which their magic operates. Others make too many rules, turning it into a confusing science. Not so here. Like fairy tales, we are introduced to a magical object, told the rules which constrain it, but now HOW it works, and move on. The reader is not lef More...

BUKU GILA...


GILA karena buku ini sanggup membuat saya hanyut ke dalam dunia imajinasi yang belum pernah saya temukan sebelumnya.

Menurut anda, apa sih kebahagiaan itu?





ntar dulu deh, lanjut ke buku momo dulu,

Seorang gadis cilik, tidak jelas usianya karena terlihat antara 8-12 tahun menemukan sebuah persahabatan di reruntuhan amfiteater. Matanya hitam lebar, kakinya sewarna dengan matanya karena tidak memakai alas kaki,ia selalu mengenakan jas pria dewasa yang karena kebesaran harus digulung pa More...

I bought this book several months ago at a used book store, but I put off reading it because I was afraid it wouldn't live up to Michael Ende's other famous book, which also happens to be my favorite book, The Neverending Story. While Momo isn't as complex and more bluntly allegorical, it is charming and emotionally stunning. Perhaps I am more naive than most readers, but I felt myself swept up into this book's persuasive world in which children are forgetting how to play and adults only care ab More...

Buku ini mengingatkan kembali mengenai keasikan membaca setelah beberapa tahun sebelumnya alpa membaca (read novel).

Keasikan petualangan dalam dunia fiksi, abstrak, manis, indah, flowery, itu adalah kesan yang didapatkan ketika membaca buku ini.
nilai kebajikan, sangat mendalam.

ketika kita tahu bahwa waktu itu adalah uang, maka kita perlu mendefinisikan apakah uang ? apakah itu sesuatu yang berguna ?
apakah uang adalah alat satu2nya yang dipakai untuk mengukur waktu ?

Michael Ende menurut Saya puny More...

Ada teka-teki bagus dari buku ini (h.138) untuk membuka review-ku:

All dwelling in one house are strange brothers three,
as unlike as any three brothers could be,
yet try as you may to tell brother from brother,
you'll find that the trio resemble each other.
The first isn't there, though he'll come beyond doubt.
The second's departed, so he's not about.
The third and the smallest is right on the spot,
And manage without him the others could not.
Yet the third factor with which to be reckoned
Because the f More...

I owe a debt of gratitude to a good friend for persuading me to read this novel. It is one that I would not have otherwise read, given the general premise and genre. A magical fable. I have one main point of information for you concerning this work that I will pass along right away so that you need not read the remainder of this review to have it. This is an extended fable of extraordinary charm that will captivate a reader of any age level. I can imagine an adult reading this book to a child an More...

What can I say about this book? It is a fantasy in a land far far away, but the story is somewhat depressing rather than soothing. Momo, a little girl, has to fight against a group of horrible "gray men", whose job is stealing people's time as much as they can because if they failed, they will vanished. As a result, people don't want to waste their time for 'unimportant' matters such as playing with their kids because if they do, they will run out of time and die. What a fantastic story!

Momo was a fast and good read. What I liked particularly about the book was that it took a well known issue and transformed it into captivating narrative.

It focuses on time prodigality. People today always are in a hurry to go to someplace. They try to save time for work and in order to do this they sometimes ruin their lives by stripping it of everything that makes life worth living. People forget to talk and interact with each other and thus they become no different than robots. This book emph More...

para tuan kelabu tiba-tiba menyerang masyarakat. perhitungan-perhitungan rumit diberikan. tentang waktu yang telah mereka buang hingga usia ini. membuat semua orang sibuk menghemat waktu untuk pekerjaan mereka.

jika sebelumnya seorang tukang cukur menghabiskan setengah jam untuk memotong rambut seseorang, kini dia hanya melakukannya dalam 12 - 20 menit. tak ada lagi percakapan dan sapaan ramah antar penduduk. karena hal ini dianggap usaha membuang waktu dan tak perlu dilakukan.

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Momo wasn't nearly as good as The Neverending Story, Michael Ende's most famous work, but it was still quite smart and charming. In this children's-book-for-all-ages, free-spirited Momo must combat a company of sinister time thieves who convince her fellow citizens that the best thing to do with their time is to save it in their time bank, thus reducing their lives to a hasty and joyless existence. The concepts and characters were simple but well done, though I must admit the protagonist is too More...

Momo is a little orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old amphitheatre in the midst of a bustling city. The people of the neighborhood around the ruins are all friends with Momo, because she has several rare abilities. She is very very very good at listening, and after telling her their problems, Momo’s friends are generally able to come up with solutions. Momo is also able to make any game fun, which makes her pretty popular with the neighborhood children. So Momo lives in the city with her More...