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The search for the author's identity takes Yarnspinner to Bookholm-the so-called City of Dreaming Books. On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop. His nostrils are assailed by clouds of book dust, the stimulating scent of ancient leather, and the tang of printer's ink. Soon, though, Yarnspinner falls into the clutches of the city's evil genius, Pfistomel Smyke, who treacherously maroons him in the labyrinthine catacombs show more underneath the city, where reading books can be genuinely dangerous. In The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers transports us to a magical world where reading is a remarkable adventure. Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book. We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life!. show lessTags
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Rating: 4 out of 5.
The City of Dreaming Books is the fourth book in the Zamonia series by German author and cartoonist Walter Moers. This book can be read as a standalone novel, the worldbuilding and plot elements were explained in a way that precludes the need to read the other books first.
This book is a book about loving (and fearing) books. I was hooked on the first paragraph:
How can you not want to read on after a passage like that? So I dutifully sat down with my chamomile tea and read on (actually, I did almost get chamomile tea just to spite the above paragraph). Our journey through Bookholm, also known as the City of Dreaming Books, is lead by the not-so-intrepid saurian character of Optimus Yarnspinner. The book is packed full of illustrations by the author, and I really enjoyed them. They were as interesting as the text at times.
Plot: 3 out of 5.
The plot of The City of Dreaming Books is based, self-consciously, on quite a few tropes. Yarnspinner’s authorial godfather sees to that. Due to the lounge-in-cheek way a lot of the tropes were handled, I found them to be quite entertaining and not at all frustrating or dull. Once you get towards the second part of the book the plot starts to speed up, and events take our clumsy hero by a bit of surprise. Sure, you could kind of guess the direction where the book was heading, but that didn’t detract from my interest at all.
Setting: 5 out of 5.
The highlight of this book is certainly the setting. Bookholm itself is a main protagonist. Moers sees to it that the city and aspects of life in it are exquisitely described. Honestly, the location-as-protagonist approach that The City of Dreaming Books took remined me of China Miéville’s New Crobuzon series ([book: Perdido Street Station|68494] and The Scar being among my favorite fantasy novels). Albeit Bookholm is a lot more sanitary, friendly, and generally less putrescent than New Crobuzon. This book truly excels in the worldbuilding and made me want to wander the streets of Bookholm, hopefully with less naiveté than Yarnspinner.
Characters: 4 out of 5.
Optimus Yarnspinner is the main character of the book, and he is the one telling us the tale. I found him to be an entirely likable character, with good depth and delightful quirks. The other characters were less well defined, naturally, but they made an impression on me in the story. The Shadow King’s characterization was excellent as well. Writing Style: 5 out of 5.
This is the first book of Moers’ that I have read, and I found his style to be delightful. This is all the more remarkable as it is a translation of the German version of this book. It was truly excellent, and while the prose may have been a tad purple, the literary love imbibed by the book rendered it fitting. A rather extreme example of this is:
Thankfully, this is just Yarnspinner quoting his authorial godfather, but the author’s ability to write beautiful prose regarding a cauliflower was delightful. A sample of the typical prose is:
Personal Enjoyment: 4 out of 5.
I really really enjoyed this book. It made me want to move into a comfortable corner with my books and never leave. This passage had me cackling with laughter:
I strongly empathized with this when I closed the book.
Conclusion:
This is where my review ends.
Cross posted on my blog at https://adruidinthedesert.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/book-review-the-city-of-dream... show less
The City of Dreaming Books is the fourth book in the Zamonia series by German author and cartoonist Walter Moers. This book can be read as a standalone novel, the worldbuilding and plot elements were explained in a way that precludes the need to read the other books first.
This book is a book about loving (and fearing) books. I was hooked on the first paragraph:
“This is where my story begins. It tells how I came into possession of The Bloody Book and acquired the Orm. It’s not a story for people with thin skins and weak nerves, whom I would advise to replace this book on the pile at once and slink off to the children’s section. Shoo! Begone, you cry-babies and quaffers of camomile tea, you wimps and softies!show more
This book tells of a place where reading is still a genuine adventure…”
How can you not want to read on after a passage like that? So I dutifully sat down with my chamomile tea and read on (actually, I did almost get chamomile tea just to spite the above paragraph). Our journey through Bookholm, also known as the City of Dreaming Books, is lead by the not-so-intrepid saurian character of Optimus Yarnspinner. The book is packed full of illustrations by the author, and I really enjoyed them. They were as interesting as the text at times.
Plot: 3 out of 5.
The plot of The City of Dreaming Books is based, self-consciously, on quite a few tropes. Yarnspinner’s authorial godfather sees to that. Due to the lounge-in-cheek way a lot of the tropes were handled, I found them to be quite entertaining and not at all frustrating or dull. Once you get towards the second part of the book the plot starts to speed up, and events take our clumsy hero by a bit of surprise. Sure, you could kind of guess the direction where the book was heading, but that didn’t detract from my interest at all.
Setting: 5 out of 5.
The highlight of this book is certainly the setting. Bookholm itself is a main protagonist. Moers sees to it that the city and aspects of life in it are exquisitely described. Honestly, the location-as-protagonist approach that The City of Dreaming Books took remined me of China Miéville’s New Crobuzon series ([book: Perdido Street Station|68494] and The Scar being among my favorite fantasy novels). Albeit Bookholm is a lot more sanitary, friendly, and generally less putrescent than New Crobuzon. This book truly excels in the worldbuilding and made me want to wander the streets of Bookholm, hopefully with less naiveté than Yarnspinner.
Characters: 4 out of 5.
Optimus Yarnspinner is the main character of the book, and he is the one telling us the tale. I found him to be an entirely likable character, with good depth and delightful quirks. The other characters were less well defined, naturally, but they made an impression on me in the story.
This is the first book of Moers’ that I have read, and I found his style to be delightful. This is all the more remarkable as it is a translation of the German version of this book. It was truly excellent, and while the prose may have been a tad purple, the literary love imbibed by the book rendered it fitting. A rather extreme example of this is:
The cultivation of the blue cauliflower is a rather remarkable process. What pays the price in this case is not the foliation, for a change, but the inflorescence. The gardener encourages the umbel’s temporary obesity. Crowded together into a compact head, its countless little buds swell, together with their stalks, into an amorphous mass of bluish vegetable fat.
Thankfully, this is just Yarnspinner quoting his authorial godfather, but the author’s ability to write beautiful prose regarding a cauliflower was delightful. A sample of the typical prose is:
The sun was shining outside. Inside the house I felt oppressed by the lingering presence of my late godfather: the smell of his countless pipes, the crumpled balls of paper on his desk, a half-written after-dinner speech, a half-empty teacup and, on the wall, an ancient portrait of him as a youngster with eyes like saucers.
Personal Enjoyment: 4 out of 5.
I really really enjoyed this book. It made me want to move into a comfortable corner with my books and never leave. This passage had me cackling with laughter:
‘I warned you those books were dangerous,’ he said. ‘Now you’ve read enough of them.’
‘No!’ I shrieked. ‘I’ve only read a fraction of them. I hadn’t the least idea such books existed. I must read them all! All!’
I strongly empathized with this when I closed the book.
Conclusion:
This is where my review ends.
Cross posted on my blog at https://adruidinthedesert.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/book-review-the-city-of-dream... show less
At Lindworm Castle in the country of Zamoria, every young dinosaur has an authorial godfather who is responsible for his literary education and training. When young Optimus Yarnspinner's godfather, Dancelot Wordwright, dies, he leaves his charge a manuscript of such surpassing genius, a piece of writing so perfectly right, that Optimus decides that he must find the author and learn from him.
And so he leaves home and heads for the city of Bookholm, a town that "reeks of old books", where the inhabitants walk with "stacks of books under their arms - indeed, many tow whole handcarts laden with reading matter". But as he begins his search for the mysterious author amid the city's five thousand antiquarian bookstores, it becomes apparent show more that all is not as it seems. Hidden beneath the city are labyrinthine tunnels where Bookhunters seek rare and precious tomes, and where danger lurks. Optimus finds himself trapped in this nether world, and must find his way back to the light. It is his adventures there that form the core of this delightfully exciting book, as he fends off living books (animatomes), spends time among the Booklings (each of whom has memorized the entire output of such literary geniuses as Aleisha Wimpersleake and Wamilli Swordthrow), and learns the secret of the Shadow King.
An utterly charming and amusing book, filled with literary puns. Many booklovers will appreciate the scene where, hypnotized by an odd form of music, the populace madly invades the bookstores, "sweeping books off the shelves regardless of title or author, price or condition . . . I had been smitten with an insatiable hunger for books and only one thing could cure it: buy, buy, buy!" Sounds like me at the Newberry Library Book Fair. show less
And so he leaves home and heads for the city of Bookholm, a town that "reeks of old books", where the inhabitants walk with "stacks of books under their arms - indeed, many tow whole handcarts laden with reading matter". But as he begins his search for the mysterious author amid the city's five thousand antiquarian bookstores, it becomes apparent show more that all is not as it seems. Hidden beneath the city are labyrinthine tunnels where Bookhunters seek rare and precious tomes, and where danger lurks. Optimus finds himself trapped in this nether world, and must find his way back to the light. It is his adventures there that form the core of this delightfully exciting book, as he fends off living books (animatomes), spends time among the Booklings (each of whom has memorized the entire output of such literary geniuses as Aleisha Wimpersleake and Wamilli Swordthrow), and learns the secret of the Shadow King.
An utterly charming and amusing book, filled with literary puns. Many booklovers will appreciate the scene where, hypnotized by an odd form of music, the populace madly invades the bookstores, "sweeping books off the shelves regardless of title or author, price or condition . . . I had been smitten with an insatiable hunger for books and only one thing could cure it: buy, buy, buy!" Sounds like me at the Newberry Library Book Fair. show less
Cute, whimsical, young dinosaur with authorial aspirations goes to the city of publishing and antiquarian bookshops, there's a dark underbelly of the city in which old editions are being destroyed by time, damp, Amontillado-minded hoarders, and armored Indiana-Jones-wannabes, the whole place reeks of mold aboveground and below, there's a sinister holdover society of post-alchemists who have a tasteless version of a golem in their highly nonlinear history, and petulant dinos hurling rare editions around in a bookshop is something unattractive female antiquarian specialists can't do anything about. Also critics live in hovels, agents are disposable idiots with no discernment for anything other than pastries, and publishers are embittered show more crooks. Conflagrations in which creations destroy creators as well as vast libraries and entire civilizations are sufficiently answered by the inspiration of a solitary trope-pumper and the threat of more books in a series. If you love books and would like to read a magical bibliophilia tale, feel free to contact me for a list of several thousand stories in which at least one of the characters actually shares your sentiments. This novel isn't on it. show less
What it Is
Walter Moers (and his excellent translator, John Brownjohn) love language, and that love permeates ever page, many times. Consequently, the book is a comic hymn to the power, beauty and fun of words, along with a more cautious love of books (which can provoke, or even be, evil). The books of the title are dreaming of being read, because that's what brings them to life.
Story and Setting
Optimus Yarnspinner comes from a city of authors and travels to Bookholm, a city of bookshops, trying to trace the author of the most perfectly written piece of writing he has ever encountered. (The fact he is a dinosaur is oddly irrelevant.)
Bookholm turns out to be a dangerous place, especially once he enters the enormous laryrinthian catacombs show more under the city. The sheer variety of bizarre creatures and experiences is startling, unless you're already familiar with Moers' work.
Weird Words and Ideas
A random collection of some of my favourite words and ideas:
* Bookshops are so specialised they include one for novels with insect protagonists, one for dwarves with blond beards and another for half-finished books.
* The "primal note" is the first officially recognised note and the basis for all Zamonian music.
* The acoustic alchemy of trombophones can induce mass hallucination and hypnosis.
* Booklings are little creatures each of whom memorises and takes on the character of one author (a little like Farenheit 451).
* Even the street entertainment and food are book-themed (juggling with books and book-shaped pastries); dancing with shadows is an antidote to loneliness.
* Boring books include Chimney-Sweeping for Advanced Students by Darko Lum, How to Comb a Chicken and An Encyclopedia of Wood Planing.
* Hair raising books include Where the Mummy Sings by Omar ben Shokka, A Handful of Staring Eyes by the Weirdwater Sisters and Skeletons in the Reeds by Hallucinea Krewel.
* Allegedly archaic words include spinking (speaking and stinking of garlic), ambivaliguous (when you can't make up your mind) and an abcedist is someone obsessed with putting things in alphabetical order (and not to be confused with a zyxedist).
Anagrams of the Famous
I noticed the quirky names, but was oblivious to the fact that many are anagrams of famous people, such as: Asdrel Chickens (Charles Dickens), Aliesha Wimperslake (William Shakespeare) and Trebor Snurb (Robert Burns).
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Dreaming_Books#Wordplay
But
But it's not all perfect. There is a clichéd moment when a baddie explains his evil plan (a la James Bond etc) and when Yarnspinner eventually finds the author, he (the author) speaks in a rather simple and banal way, which is strange.
Another problem is that much as I enjoyed it, this book feels too long. The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear was a similar length, set in a similar world, but that story was more episodic, so it worked better. Nevertheless the language, wonderful line drawings and sheer humour and exhuberance still make it an enjoyable romp. show less
Walter Moers (and his excellent translator, John Brownjohn) love language, and that love permeates ever page, many times. Consequently, the book is a comic hymn to the power, beauty and fun of words, along with a more cautious love of books (which can provoke, or even be, evil). The books of the title are dreaming of being read, because that's what brings them to life.
Story and Setting
Optimus Yarnspinner comes from a city of authors and travels to Bookholm, a city of bookshops, trying to trace the author of the most perfectly written piece of writing he has ever encountered. (The fact he is a dinosaur is oddly irrelevant.)
Bookholm turns out to be a dangerous place, especially once he enters the enormous laryrinthian catacombs show more under the city. The sheer variety of bizarre creatures and experiences is startling, unless you're already familiar with Moers' work.
Weird Words and Ideas
A random collection of some of my favourite words and ideas:
* Bookshops are so specialised they include one for novels with insect protagonists, one for dwarves with blond beards and another for half-finished books.
* The "primal note" is the first officially recognised note and the basis for all Zamonian music.
* The acoustic alchemy of trombophones can induce mass hallucination and hypnosis.
* Booklings are little creatures each of whom memorises and takes on the character of one author (a little like Farenheit 451).
* Even the street entertainment and food are book-themed (juggling with books and book-shaped pastries); dancing with shadows is an antidote to loneliness.
* Boring books include Chimney-Sweeping for Advanced Students by Darko Lum, How to Comb a Chicken and An Encyclopedia of Wood Planing.
* Hair raising books include Where the Mummy Sings by Omar ben Shokka, A Handful of Staring Eyes by the Weirdwater Sisters and Skeletons in the Reeds by Hallucinea Krewel.
* Allegedly archaic words include spinking (speaking and stinking of garlic), ambivaliguous (when you can't make up your mind) and an abcedist is someone obsessed with putting things in alphabetical order (and not to be confused with a zyxedist).
Anagrams of the Famous
I noticed the quirky names, but was oblivious to the fact that many are anagrams of famous people, such as: Asdrel Chickens (Charles Dickens), Aliesha Wimperslake (William Shakespeare) and Trebor Snurb (Robert Burns).
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Dreaming_Books#Wordplay
But
But it's not all perfect. There is a clichéd moment when a baddie explains his evil plan (a la James Bond etc) and when Yarnspinner eventually finds the author, he (the author) speaks in a rather simple and banal way, which is strange.
Another problem is that much as I enjoyed it, this book feels too long. The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear was a similar length, set in a similar world, but that story was more episodic, so it worked better. Nevertheless the language, wonderful line drawings and sheer humour and exhuberance still make it an enjoyable romp. show less
What would happen if you put Jasper Fforde, Douglas Adams, and Nicholas Basbanes in a room and told them to write a book together? Something that resembled Walter Moers' The City of Dreaming Books (Overlook, 2007), perhaps. Moers' book is a mildly creepy, utterly bizarre trek through an alternate universe where books are a way of life (or, for at least one race of the strange beings, the source of life itself).
Our narrator, Optimus Yarnspinner (a dinosaur and aspiring author) travels to Bookholm (the city of books) to seek out the author of a manuscript in his possession. The descriptions of this city are enough to make any good bibliophile drool a little, but dark things lurk beneath the narrow and dangerous streets of Bookholm (and show more above them, too, as he finds out when mind-control music sends him and hundreds of others into the mad scrum known as "book rage") . Optimus soon finds himself the victim of the nefarious megalomaniac Pfistomel Smyke, who lures him into the endless catacombs beneath the city and maroons him there.
The remainder of the book is given over to Yarnspinner's long stay in the tunnels, where he encounters various dangerous critters, the one-eyed memorization machines known as Booklings (for whom reading is the only source of nourishment), his greatest hero, and a great many fascinating books (including a few sentient ones, some that kill, and a great many of immense value).
Filled with literary allusions, puns, footnotes, and all the devices that fans of books about books will love (plus some exquisite illustrations, also by Moers), it's also something of a biting satire toward all things literary: authors, publishers, booksellers, reviewers and others of their ilk all come in for a little bit of good-natured poking here and there.
While I thought there were a few plot holes, and a few of the characters didn't really do much for me, I enjoyed jumping this romp through Moers' universe. It's awfully nice to suspend belief for a while and descend into the catacombs of a good book.
http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-review-city-of-dreaming-books.html show less
Our narrator, Optimus Yarnspinner (a dinosaur and aspiring author) travels to Bookholm (the city of books) to seek out the author of a manuscript in his possession. The descriptions of this city are enough to make any good bibliophile drool a little, but dark things lurk beneath the narrow and dangerous streets of Bookholm (and show more above them, too, as he finds out when mind-control music sends him and hundreds of others into the mad scrum known as "book rage") . Optimus soon finds himself the victim of the nefarious megalomaniac Pfistomel Smyke, who lures him into the endless catacombs beneath the city and maroons him there.
The remainder of the book is given over to Yarnspinner's long stay in the tunnels, where he encounters various dangerous critters, the one-eyed memorization machines known as Booklings (for whom reading is the only source of nourishment), his greatest hero, and a great many fascinating books (including a few sentient ones, some that kill, and a great many of immense value).
Filled with literary allusions, puns, footnotes, and all the devices that fans of books about books will love (plus some exquisite illustrations, also by Moers), it's also something of a biting satire toward all things literary: authors, publishers, booksellers, reviewers and others of their ilk all come in for a little bit of good-natured poking here and there.
While I thought there were a few plot holes, and a few of the characters didn't really do much for me, I enjoyed jumping this romp through Moers' universe. It's awfully nice to suspend belief for a while and descend into the catacombs of a good book.
http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-review-city-of-dreaming-books.html show less
Optimus Yarnspinner is an aspiring author and a dinosaur living in Zamonia. As an inhabitant of Lindworm castle, he has had the best training under the tutelage of his authorial godfather, Dancelot Wordwright. On his deathbed, Dancelot bequeaths a manuscript to Optimus, a brilliant short story by an unknown author, and commissions his godson to go to Bookholm to discover the writer.
This is an endlessly inventive tale that mixes the ridiculous (literary dinosaurs) with smart bookish humor (author names that Optimus lists are anagrams of famous authors in our world). The odd mixture puts me in mind of the Thursday Next series, though in many ways the stories themselves are completely different. But if you have a good imagination, enjoy show more discovering literary references in unexpected places, and didn't mind the footnoterphone or the Cheshire Cat as librarian in The Well of Lost Plots, then I would recommend Moers' creative yarn. Though the fourth in a series, The City of Dreaming Books was the first that I read and I had no trouble reading it as a standalone. It runs a little long towards the end, but it was such a fun ride that I want to check out the rest of the series. show less
This is an endlessly inventive tale that mixes the ridiculous (literary dinosaurs) with smart bookish humor (author names that Optimus lists are anagrams of famous authors in our world). The odd mixture puts me in mind of the Thursday Next series, though in many ways the stories themselves are completely different. But if you have a good imagination, enjoy show more discovering literary references in unexpected places, and didn't mind the footnoterphone or the Cheshire Cat as librarian in The Well of Lost Plots, then I would recommend Moers' creative yarn. Though the fourth in a series, The City of Dreaming Books was the first that I read and I had no trouble reading it as a standalone. It runs a little long towards the end, but it was such a fun ride that I want to check out the rest of the series. show less
Hace años leí un libro fascinante, ‘Las 13 vidas y media del Capitán Osozul’, del alemán Walter Moers, que aunque pueda parecer un libro infantil, puede ser leído por lectores de todas las edades. Grandes aventuras y descubrimientos asombrosos, la imaginación de Walter Moers parecía que no se acababa nunca, y nos iba mostrando maravilla tras maravilla, todo ello acompañado de unas ilustraciones maravillosas, dibujadas por él mismo. Quedé tan satisfecho, que en cuanto estuvo disponible, me hice con el siguiente que publicó, ‘La ciudad de los libros soñadores’, ambientado en el mismo universo, que sin saber porqué, fui dejando aparcado en la estantería.
‘La ciudad de los libros soñadores’ es un homenaje a los show more libros. El protagonista, un dragón que aspira a ser escritor, queda fascinado tras leer unas páginas manuscritas legadas por su padrino literario, Danzarote. Sin pensarlo, Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, emprende la búsqueda del genial escritor de tales páginas, y para ello viaje a Bibliópolis, una ciudad abarrotada de librerías y de libros, con laberintos y catacumbas plagados de peligros y misterios. Pero el pobre Hildegunst, no tardará encontrarse en problemas.
Una trama compleja, muy bien escrita (o traducida), llena de guiños para el avezado lector, con una primera parte muy buena y una parte central un tanto repetitiva y larga, hacen de esta una interesante novela, que gustará a cualquier amante de los libros. show less
‘La ciudad de los libros soñadores’ es un homenaje a los show more libros. El protagonista, un dragón que aspira a ser escritor, queda fascinado tras leer unas páginas manuscritas legadas por su padrino literario, Danzarote. Sin pensarlo, Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, emprende la búsqueda del genial escritor de tales páginas, y para ello viaje a Bibliópolis, una ciudad abarrotada de librerías y de libros, con laberintos y catacumbas plagados de peligros y misterios. Pero el pobre Hildegunst, no tardará encontrarse en problemas.
Una trama compleja, muy bien escrita (o traducida), llena de guiños para el avezado lector, con una primera parte muy buena y una parte central un tanto repetitiva y larga, hacen de esta una interesante novela, que gustará a cualquier amante de los libros. show less
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- Where shadows dim with shadows mate in caverns deep and dark, where old books dream of bygone days when they were wood and bark, where diamonds from coal are born and no birds ever sing, that region is the dread domain ruled ... (show all)by the Shadow King.
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From the stars we come, To the stars we 'll come back. Life is just a journey outside/ to the unknown. " - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I trust I shall be forgiven for having taken such an editorial liberty, but I firmly believe that these fragments possess all the makings of a book in its own right.
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