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The Neverending Story

Michael Ende

Start date: March 21, 2016

Why we're reading this: translated to english
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Jun 18, 2014 Gina rated it really liked it

The very moment I began reading this book, I was entranced by the magic of words. The descriptions are so perfect, the characters and scenery so vivid in my mind, that I couldn't bare to stop reading. Bastian is such a poor soul in the beginning, but he has a great adventure ahead of him. The world of Fantastica is crumbling and getting wiped away by "the nothing", and only Bastian can save it. The movie, was always in my mind, of course, while reading, and there are quite a few similarities. Wh ...more

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May 09, 2018 Debbie rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

This book left me with mixed feelings.

I loved the story-within-a-story structure, especially in the first half of the book. Bastian is an unpopular boy who steals a storybook and gets drawn into Fantastica. Literally. An evil called The Nothing is gradually devouring Fantastica. Only a human can give the Childlike Empress a new name and save Fantastica.

The story itself is wonderfully imaginative, but the storytelling is often clunky and flat. I felt like something was lost in translation from ...more

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Jul 17, 2018 Chessa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sf_fantasy, own_it, translated, readharder18

4 stars for the first half, which is awesome and so so similar to the movie (which I have seen hundreds of times). 2.5 stars for the second half, in which we watch Bastian go through many super boring “adventures” and become increasingly bratty and self-centered throughout.

If I ever re-read this, it’ll only be the first half. But I’m glad to have read it anyway.

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