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As an avid reader, the idea of the characters in a book being aware of me and of me being physically in the story seems totally wonderful. Every reader's fantasy, right? But somehow this book just didn't strike a chord with me. The first half was interesting and fun. It's a childrens novel so I expected silly things to happen and didn't expect too much depth to the writing. But I found the second half of the novel to be just dull. The main character wanders around rather aimlessly for 200 pages
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Dec 22, 2007
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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it was amazing
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read-adult-fiction,
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Loved it! The movie only covered the first half of the book,
which was really an allegory on nuclear warfare.
which was really an allegory on nuclear warfare.
2nd half was so much better than the part they made Into the movie.
Loved it. Need to do a real review, but it outpaced my expectations, and I could hear fragments of sooooo many other stories--I know who those authors were reading, now. ;)
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