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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I think that Inkheaart was a brillant book. It was exciting how the authour blended the real world with an imaginary, or truly fictional world. I loved Maggie and her love and dedication for her father. This book really did come to life for me.
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Summary: Read in, read out
Review: German author Cornelia Funke rocketed into international bestseller status with the Venetian fantasy book "Thief Lord." Here she produces a different kind of fantasy in "Inkheart," a slower but pleasant fantasy that bumps into some pacing problems.Meggie lives with her father Mo, a bookbinder who repairs old books with crumbling spines, broken covers and bindings. Though she loves her father, Meggie is puzzled by all the unanswered questions she has, like where her mother is and why Mo suddenly makes them move without warning, as if he's trying to escape something. One night a strange man -- Dustfinger -- arrives at Meggie's house, speaks with her father, and vanishes again. The next morning, Mo and Meggie leave again suddenly to stay with eccentric Elinor, a tough woman with an obsessive love of books. Dustfinger comes along with them -- along with a mysterious green book that is, for some reason, very valuable. Meggie finds out just how valuable when her father is kidnapped by the thugs of the evil, sadistic Capricorn -- Mo is able to bring book characters out of their books and into the real world. And Capricorn is willing to use Meggie to make Mo do exactly what he wants. "Inkheart" lacks some of the sparkle and memorable characters of "Thief Lord." Despite this, it's a solid fantasy story that manages to transcend what sounds like a very silly storyline. Okay, reading people in (Meg's mother) and out (Capricorn and his deformed thugs) sounds absurd even in a fantasy book, but Funke manages to pull it off in believable fashion. Funke's writing (very well translated) has a nice breadth of detail, and she gets across the personalities of the characters quite well ("Capricorn would feed the bird to the cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart..."). What it lacks is suspense and pacing. Funke is good at evoking mystery but not a building sense of suspense. And the book drags quite a bit near the beginning, although it picks up near the middle. Meggie and Mo are nice but unassuming lead characters. There's really nothing that makes them stand out. Not so for Dustfinger and Elinor. Dustfinger is a tormented sometime-traitor who can't cope with living in our world, giving him a more pitiful personality. And Elinor is a take-charge, reclusive, tough book-lover whose odd behavior makes her more endearing. "Inkheart" is a bit clumsier and draggier than Funke's first novel. But it stands as a pleasant little fantasy, especially for those who, like Meggie, adore books.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: After Cornelia Funke wrote The Theif Lord, I was expecting even better for this book. And I shouldn't have. Thief Lord was one of the better books of the new millenium. But reading Inkheart, I would've been disappointed even if Cornelia Funke WASN'T my home girl. Which she's not anymore.
Meg and her father have barely any, if not, no special charachteristics. They each could be anybody. Somewhat like a fan ficition story, or pretending to be a rock star you know nothing about. If I was Cornelia Funke, I'd be writing a follow-up to the Thief Lord to regain my fans. Which hopefully, she's doing.
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Summary: Number Five on my Top Ten List
Review: Ms. Funke kept my mind on what will happen next. There was no dull moments. I could read it over and over.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: This book came highly recommended, but I'm struggling to finish it. I found the plot is quite slow (escape, get caught, escape again, get caught again) and none of the characters were developed well. I just didn't really care about any of them. The premise of the story is an interesting idea, which is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1. Also, I can't see how anyone could compare this book to Harry Potter or LOTR.
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Summary: Inkheart Book Review
Review: Inkheart
By: Funke, Cornelia
Reviewed by: J. Lee
Period:1 Meggie's father, Mo, has a great and wonderful, but terrible ability that no one else in the world has. When he reads books aloud, the characters in the stories that he read come alive. Mo discovers this weird power when Meggie was a just a small child. He reads from Inkheart(a book actually in the story),and he accidentally reads the villains out of the book, but he realizes his wife has mysteriously disappeared when he was reading this book. Then Mo discovers that he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of the book Inkheart, and he accidentally read Meggie's mother into the book. Meggie, the age of 12, doesn't know anything about her father's bizarre and fierce talent. After Meggie's mother disappeared, Mo never read to Meggie out loud afraid of what might come alive. Capricorn, a villian, has searched for Meggie's father for years, to use Mo's powerful talent to make his own dark evil plans. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the to get Mo to his mountain hideaway, is to use his precious daughter Meggie as bait! Elinor, Meggie, Dustfinger, and Mo(or Silvertongue) have to figure a way to stay away from Capricorn but save Meggie's mother at the same time. I liked this book because it was adventurous and very exhilarating. There were many surprising things that happened and twists keep you excited about the book. The ending to this book was not what I thought it would be, it was better than I expected! I recommend this book to people who love fantasy stories. 'They came out.' This is a quote tells about Mo telling Meggie everything that happened on the night that Capricorn came out. It was an important night because it changed Mo and Meggie's life forever. 'Oh, yes? Then why does he want you?' this quote is also important because Mo might have lot his family and had to stay with Capricorn forever. But when Dustfinger helped Elinor, Mo, and Meggie escaped, he had hope of having a regular life all over again. My favorite part of this book was when Mo had to read Treasure Island out loud to Capricorn. Treasure came out of the book and Capricorn got money from the book. I wish that could happen so that when you read a book, it will look like a "movie".
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Summary: In my Top Ten
Review: Bought this for my daughter and read it before she did, and it's one of the best books I have ever read, definitely in my Top Ten. It's a book about books, and about family. The characters are well wrought; you'll find yourself pondering their motivations long after you close the book. Highly recommended--it's not just for pre-teens!
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Summary: Good book but not as Good as The Thief Lord
Review: Good book, but read Thief Lord after this one. I expected so much from Cornelia Funke after Thief Lord. I could not put the Thief Lord down from page one. This one was a slower start. Once I got into the part I considered interesting, I didn't want to put it down, it just took me a while to get there. This is a very good book, just make sure to read this one before Thief Lord.
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Summary: A very disappointing book, WAY too many cliffhangers
Review: When I first listened to the tapes I got for Christmas, I fell in love with this book, that it, until it got to the part where they met Capricorn. I think they met him way too early on in the book, but that isn't it. At the end, it's a complete cliffhanger. Finolio (sorry for my spelling, I only had the tapes) gets trapped in the book, Dustfinger and the boy leave somewhere, Baster isn't dead along with the others, these questions are never answered, and Meggie's mother barely has any part in this book. I also thought that Mo and Meggie should be the only one with the ability. The ending completely ruined it all. And the plot was EXTREMELEY predictable. It goes like this: Goes to Capricorn, escapes, something happens, goes to Capricorn, escapes, something happens, etc. This is the worst book I've ever read, and the first I ever disliked, and I had hoped I would never encounter a book this disappointing. Of course, this is just my opinion. Many people like this book, and maybe you will too, but I certainly didn't.
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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down
Review: "Inkheart" is a great book for people who love books. It is similar in some ways to "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende in that it involves a book by the same title in the story. But even though there are similarities the plots are much different. "Inkheart" is a much better written book than "The Neverending Story." Those of you who have read Michael Ende's book will remember the section of the book in which Bastinn explored Fantasia. I found this section very boring and am thankful that it was left out of the movies completely. You will not find a boring section in "Inkheart." Every chapter adds something to the story and nothing is added that is not needed to move the story along. In the book it is stated that people cannot be read out of poorly written books. If it were possible to read a person out of a well written book then it would be possible to read one out of Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart" because it is a very well written book.
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