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His best yet? - Rated
I read both this and Rumo within about 3 months of each other. At first I thought this was struggling to match the previous novel but about half way through there is a fantastic description of a dark ride on a bookcase! and after that I found it hard to put the book down.
As usual Moers fills his book with wonderful creatures and sureal backdrops...why is he not better known?
A joyful, engrossing read! - Rated
It really is a pleasure to 'find' such a book as this. The author clearly has had a fine time writing it, and the joy is evident in every chapter - as is the sense of adventure!
The mad world of Walter Moers continues with a budding Lindworm (dinosaur) writer visiting the City of Dreaming Books... and the myriad adventures as he encounters the thousands of entirely non-human residents. Everyone is obsessed with books for one reason or another, but never in a boring manner - the Bookhunters, for example, are fully armoured against the more dangerous, man-eating or explosive tomes!
If you enjoy the wordplay of Jasper Fforde, you will enjoy this. The names of many 'famous' writers are cunning anagrams of existing 'real world' novelists, while the titles of rare books themselves are often enough to make you laugh out loud.
A thoroughly engaging page-turner, suitable for adults and older children - although I am sure, on repeated readings, new jokes will suddenly appear, depending on how well-read you are!
More Moers? Many Thanks! - Rated
Thanks to translator and publisher for the latest Moers. Sad to say, I've read the previously-translated books ... which means that, with this book, I couldn't enjoy the intense delight of encountering Moers' strange, dark and strangely meaningful world for the first time. But the pleasure of reading Moers is far from being confined to the strangeness of his imagination and his fantasy world(s). His themes are relevant in subtle and, sometimes, not-so-subtle ways; but above all, his books are one of the great pleasures of reading life. A more than worthy member of that elitist List of Golden Books.
