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Loading... The Unwritten Vol. 2: Inside Manby Mike Carey, Peter Gross (Illustrator)
Interesting (  ) lauren.castan | Apr 3, 2013 |  My blog post about this book is at this link. ( ) SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 | The second part of this intriguing series holds up really well. Very little of the plot can be said without major spoilers, but I like how Carey is still mainly working on complicating things. Still, here we get a few leads to what Taylor’s purpose in life might be, and some things regarding how this world works, giving just enough ground to stand on, with a nice solid feel. I also liked the hints that this series communicates with its Tommy Taylor book series within on a meta level. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if The Unwritten will be a series of fourteen voulmes. This might all sound complicated, but The Unwritten is really a fast-paced, witty and exciting ride. My favorite part, though, is the way it allows for side-plots that are only somewhat connected to the main arc – but still allows us to understand more about this world. In this volume, it’s really the sad story about the prison governor’s daughter and epilogue with the pissed off, foul mouthed criminal dumped in a rabbit’s body in a Pooh-esque forest that stand out the most. Very eager to continue with this series. ( )1  GingerbreadMan | Apr 28, 2012 | The adventures of Tom Taylor get more complex. Arrested for a crime he didn't commit, Tom finds himself thrown into a French jail, where the governor seems to have an irrational hatred of him. Luckily he quickly makes friends with a fellow prisoner; and the delightful Lizzie Hexam manages to get herself thrown into the same jail to help him out. And with people trying to kill Tommy in prison, he needs all the help he can get. The meta-textual nature continues, and we find out how Tom's incarceration is affecting his fans (some of whom are well, slightly nuts, to put it mildly) not through the story directly, but through the continuing method of interspersing the story with computer grabs of Google searches and chat sessions, etc. It's a nice method, a good way of cramming lots of incidental, but important, information in, in a show-don't-tell style. While we learn even more about Tom's story, we also get some slowly revealed backstory for Governor Chadron that is quite heartbreaking in its conclusion. The final chapter is not Tom's, but is very clever, about foul mouthed and angry rabbit called Mr Bun, currently inhabiting a Beatrix Potter-esque world, Willowbank Tales. His bad-tempered interactions with his fellow woodland creatures are worth the price of the book alone. (  )1 wookiebender | Aug 22, 2011 | http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1750581.html A collection of seven issues (I think), the first four taking Tom Taylor to a French prison where the governor reads Tommy Taylor books to his children and the Song of Roland makes an appearance, the next two taking Tom and his allies Savoy and Lizzie Hexen to Stuttgart in 1940 and a confrontation with Goebbels over the film of Jud Süss, and the last being a horrifying side story of a thug trapped in the form of a fluffy bunny rabbit in a children's book. The title of this volume at first appears to refer to a blog kept by one of Tom Taylor's fellow prisoners, but expands in meaning to ask what is inside any of us. The Stuttgart section has bravely included several quotations from Hitler in the original German, without translation. My German is good enough to get the meaning (and spot a few transcription errors) but I wonder how this will go down with the average reader? But basically I liked it a lot. ( )2 nwhyte | Jun 5, 2011 |
 While spinning the fascinating tale of his reluctant hero’s odyssey, Carey delves deeply into how stories influence reality—most movingly here in the characters of an indulgent father and his two children, who may play at being Tommy Taylor’s wizard friends a little too avidly. A dark, thoughtful metafiction with all of literature as its canvas; like Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next, with teeth. Highly recommended If you like Willingham's Fables and the way that an adventure story can explore story itself, The Unwritten continues to satisfy. Highly recommended. Was inspired by
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