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Recursion - November 2019 - Thriller/Suspense
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October 2019 Nominations - Mythical Creatures
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last updated Sep 21, 2019 04:48AM
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2.5 stars.
The title is not false advertising - I definitely felt like this book would never end for basically the second half of it, i.e. once Bastian finally got into the world of Phantásien.
Having reached the end after all, I have to say that I have never read a children's/young adults' book before which was quite as devoid of humour or lightheartedness. The book also is stark with conservative gender clichés (to say it nicely, the few female characters are basically archetypes, with the depth ...more
The title is not false advertising - I definitely felt like this book would never end for basically the second half of it, i.e. once Bastian finally got into the world of Phantásien.
Having reached the end after all, I have to say that I have never read a children's/young adults' book before which was quite as devoid of humour or lightheartedness. The book also is stark with conservative gender clichés (to say it nicely, the few female characters are basically archetypes, with the depth ...more
This wasn’t a bad book and served me well as a late post holiday read but having seen more than one movie adaptation and never having it read the book before, it is one of the rare instances where I prefer the movies to the book. The plot, a series of unfinished tales really, moves too quickly and the characters appear and disappear too fast for any real development, and while I would have appreciated a more cohesively built world I did very much enjoy the whimsical creatures that populate the s
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