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The Deep Woods

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All Ryan wanted to do is stay inside on an autumn day and play his favorite fantasy roleplaying video game, Wild Hunt Online, where he creeps through dark forests hunting magical creatures and dodging malevolent monsters. But his parents send him out to get some fresh air, and he wanders into the scraggly patch of woods behind his house. (Yeah, right Hey, Ryan . . . don t do it! Nah, they never listen, do they!) And when Ryan strays from the path, the familiar forest is transformed into a world of dark wonders even stranger than the one in his game. Ryan encounters a peculiar boy named Silas, who seems to come from another time, and who claims he's been trapped in those deep woods for a long time and now Ryan's trapped, too. They both have one chance to escape, or be trapped in the woods forever. They join forces to face terrible giants, mysterious witches, and stranger creatures from the dark side of Faerie, combining Ryan's sense of strategy with Silas's long familiarity with the dangers of the wood . . . and forging an unlikely friendship in the process.

127 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2015

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Tim Pratt

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Also writes as T.A. Pratt and T. Aaron Payton

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1,620 reviews215 followers
April 6, 2022
Pratts schlanker Roman THE DEEP WOODS liest sich sehr sympathisch und versetzt den Leser in die Zeit der Kindheit und Jugend zurück, als man sich in sein Baumhaus (oder welches Refugium auch immer zur Verfügung stand) zurückziehen und seinen Tagträumen nachgehen konnte.
Heute wird der Begriff "Langeweile" oft als etwas nicht Wünschenswertes verstanden, aber ich muss sagen, ich habe mich als Kind oft gelangweilt und das war nichts schlechtes. Langeweile regt die Fantasie an und verführt zu längeren Gedankenspielen, zu köstlichen Momenten.

Ryan wird von seinen Eltern zum Spielen nach draußen an die frische Luft geschickt, obwohl er viel lieber weiter ein Rollenspiel am Computer spielen würde. In der Einsamkeit des Waldes trifft er auf einen ungewöhnlichen Jungen, der in die Anderswelt entführt wurde und erlebt mit ihm gemeinsam Abenteuer. Matrix für diese Abenteuer ist das Lieblingsrollenspiel von Ryan, aber es gibt auch literarische Bezüge (Christina Rossetti) und Elemente der keltischen Folklore.

(Persönlich war mein Zugang zur Geschichte etwas von meiner Unkenntnis über Rollenspiele getrübt, für die ich mich leider nie begeistern konnte.)
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1,006 reviews54 followers
February 2, 2020
Good Book for everyone, from adult dreaming to meet magic irl or if you have a kid who play games and read. This story is about a boy playing a computer game shared world, like say wow, game based on Celtic stuff. He suddenly meets a boy outside in the woods and parts of the familiar forest now are fairyland with elements from the game in The Deep Woods. Just that things are darker and the caracters don't behave like in the game: a notorious chief, dangerous in the game, whom they will distract by casting food on him breaks down and cries cause of the disrespect come to that to. Funny and good story, about the quest to save them all.
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July 30, 2020
Como diría Vonnegut: "No me digas que esto no es bonito, ¿Eh?"
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April 27, 2016
3.5 stars. I liked the premise of the book and think lots of kids would enjoy reading it.
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