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  <title><![CDATA[The City of Dreaming Books]]></title>
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  <default-description>The author of &lt;b&gt;13 1&amp;#8260;2 Lives of Captain Bluebear &lt;/b&gt;transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner, finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2004</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[what an amazing novel!  ridiculous, irreverant, hilarious, philisophical, snuggly, informative, and many other ives that are positive.  i don't want to spoil it, as if anyone could, for folks, so i'll just say this; a three foot tall dinosaur travels to said city in possession of a manuscript, and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5160386">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I reached the end of this tale with such mixed feelings.  There were times when I felt that the book would never end and I was so very bored.  There were other times when I drank up every word as if it were ambrosia, and I wanted the spirit of the book to shine through my every waking hour.  Overall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30651094">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazingly imaginative adventure that enthralled my younger son and delighted the older one and me. There are little literary puzzles to solve along the way of the adventures of a would-be writer, who happens to be aptly named Optimus Yarnspinner. He's also a dinosaur with wings, which we forgot i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24458770">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best of the three Moers books I've read.  Moers never seems to run out of wildly imaginative ideas and bizarre, endearing characters.  Unlike Rumo or Captain Bluebear, the hero of The City of Dreaming Books has a quest from day one, and we follow him on the adventures he encounters tryin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10849215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18647863">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the wittiest book I have read in a long time.  A bibliophile's dream come true.  It's full of wordplay and allusions to many classic works of literature, except that the references are slightly askew to fit into this novel's realm.  I love that the famous authors in this story are often anag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18647863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7259726">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this book needs some serious editing...a lot of &quot;noise&quot; (lots names and events that are irrelevant to the story - I think the author was trying to be toooo witty).  The main character is a dinosaur-like creature who has lived his life in a castle learning about books.  Hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7259726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62905956">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic. I'm in literary love. This was the first book by Walter Moers that I read but will definitely not be the last. I have rarely loved and adored a book as much as this one.<br/><br/>The ultimate book for any booklovers with a sense of humour and a love for good, exciting stories. &quot;The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62905956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47065728">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 15:20:03 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers transports us into Bookholm, a city of authors, living books and curious creatures rounding out every bend of this curious and eccentric place.  The main character, Optimus Yarnspinner, is an unpublished author hailing from Lindworm Castle... a highly-rega...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47065728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60237751">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[German author and artist Walter Moers is a sublime genius of dada surreal fiction. He creates universes that are so complete, and so well realized that it seems only natural for you to be an invisible companion of a literate dinosaur trapped in the book lined catacombs of the ancient city of Bookhol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60237751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54161812">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 07 10:42:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't really a fan of this book. It wasn't really my cup of tea. I'm sure Moers enjoyed writing it. It follows the Hero Myth very closely, and the world he creates, which I believe is the setting of his other two novels although with different emphasises, is centered entirely around books. Everyt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54161812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64891729">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Walter Moers (and his excellent translator, John Brownjohn) love language, and that love permeates ever page, many times. Consequently, the book is a comic hymn to the power, beauty and fun of words, along with a more cautious love of books (which can provoke, or even be, evil). The books of the tit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64891729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62063295">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[lost in translation<br/>	<br/>The City of Dreaming Books is a fable about life in the world of literature set in a world that revolves around writing, publishing, and book-collecting (and to a lesser extent, reading). Because all Moer's characters are animals of one fantastic sort or another, I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62063295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64382805">
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 11:01:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really quite strange, and I have a hard time deciding what to make of it. If it was possible, this would have two and a half stars, making it just in between good and bad. <br/><br/>First of all, there is so much going on with species and life forms that it's hard to keep track of it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64382805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67584430">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ein überraschend intelligentes Buch, das ständig auf andere Bücher verweist und die &quot;wirkliche&quot; Welt und die Menschen,die in ihr leben karrikiert. Außerdem eine wunderbare Hommage an Bücher und ans Lesen. Ein spannender Abenteuerroman für verschiedenste Altersgruppen. Eine meiner Lie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67584430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66665947">
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 08 13:30:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this and I think it has been one of the most fun books I've read this summer!  I read Rumo - another Walter Moers book - just before this.  The City of Dreaming Books is a vastly better novel.  While Rumo bordered on too long and meandering at times,  this story was much tighter, bet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66665947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is endlessly creative.  It's as if Moers juxtaposed  world history, science, religion, and culture into a world of books.  It is quite amusing and certainly impressive.  After finishing it, I have heard that there are tons of literary references which I apparently missed most of.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75257247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the tradition of Jansson's Moomintrolls and Juster's Phantom Tollbooth, here we have a story told by Optimus Yarnspinner, a dinosaurish creature whose entire life revolves around books.  As our tale opens, Yarnspinner's authorial godfather, Dancelot Wordwright, is on his deathbed.  He gives Yarns...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69349584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whoa. This was one crazy book. I picked it up because many lists were hailing it as the best fantasy book in awhile. I expected a detailed fantasy world, interesting adventures and got all that. I was surprised though, when I started reading and found that the protagonist was...a dinosaur! The story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41176884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could spend a lifetime in Zamonia and never tire of its wonders. The characters and creatures are amazing, the descriptions awe-inspiring, the adventure action-packed, the literary references teasingly tantalizing. I loved the focus on writing in this book. What does it mean to be an author? Is it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65875814">more...</a>]]></body>
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