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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
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I decided to give this book a second chance after seeing the movie and did finish it this time. There are some good ideas here for a YA fantasy and Funke tells a good story. However, somehow I preferred the movie which is rare for me. Funke's other books were more satisfactory.
  hailelib | Nov 19, 2009 |
i love this book. Trust me that any one at any age would love this book. ( )
  jleighliles | Nov 5, 2009 |
This book is awesome! I love how it talks about actually traveling into the book! Something i have done many tomes, though not literally! It is full of suspense, and even the occasional romantic scene! ( )
  HaileyBug12 | Oct 29, 2009 |
Uninteresting ( )
1 vote thelexingtonreader | Oct 25, 2009 |
Imagine book characters, evil ones, literally leaping off the pages into your living room! Meggie learns some magic of her own and challenges the evil Capricorn.
  OHMS | Oct 21, 2009 |
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Epigraph
If you are a dreamer, come in

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,

A Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean Buyer,

If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire

For we have some flax-golden tales to spin

Come in!

Come in!

Shel Silverstein
Dedication
For Anna, who even put The Lord of The Rings aside for a while to read this book. Could anyone ask for more of a daughter?
And for Elinor, who lent me her name, although I didn't use it for an elf queen.
First words
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
Quotations
Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
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The original title is Tintenherz.
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Blurbers

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Inkheart

Book description
A young adult fantasy novel where a young girl and her father are able to bring a story's characters to life with equally good and bad results just by reading.

Amazon.com (ISBN 0439531640, Hardcover)

Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggie’s mother in.

Meggie, now a young lady, knows nothing of her father's bizarre and powerful talent, only that Mo still refuses to read to her. Capricorn, a being so evil he would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart," has searched for Meggie's father for years, wanting to twist Mo's powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use his beloved, oblivious daughter Meggie as bait!

Cornelia Funke’s imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut, The Thief Lord, and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400)

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