In all the years since I read the book, I've never met anyone else who has. It's infuriating, given the fact that everyone I know has seen the movie. If you've read it, I'd love to know your thoughts about it.
2007-01-08 17:53:08 · 8 answers · asked by parker1922 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yes, I read it about 18 years ago, and then again recently when I picked up a copy for my kids. It's a great book, and the movie certainly fell short. The overarching point of Bastien's transformation and return to life is lost, and the fact that they refused to film him looking like the book's description (fat, glasses, pasty), saps a lot of the strength from it. When Atreyu sees Bastien in the mirror, he's supposed to be genuinely horrified at the thought that this is his innermost self. Instead, it looks silly, like he's overreacting. And Bastien doesn't get to feel the pain of that reaction.
I also think it's good for kids to read the second half and see how getting your every wish, even if you've suffered in proper fairy tale fashion, can turn you into a not-very-nice person if you let it.
2007-01-09 03:01:59 · answer #1 · answered by Robin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read it a long time ago in the German original. I was a bit disappointed, since Michael Ende had written a couple of wonderful children's books in the 1960s, particularly the two wonderfully absurd "Jim Knopf" volumes (translated as "Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver" and "Jim Button and the Wild 13" respectively), but from the 1970s on he tried to do fantasy and did mostly kitsch instead.
2007-01-08 22:21:13 · answer #2 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I`ve read it years ago. As always I liked the book more than the movie.
2007-01-08 19:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by moonlightbogey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loved the neverending story, book and movie......
I just got my son to watch the movie he's two so he can't read yet but he loved it.....
Oh my thank you for making me feel like a kid again,,,,,,I needed it i was starting to feel old
2007-01-08 18:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by marion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have by no ability examine the e book, yet I said the action picture as a mushy toddler, and to a mushy toddler with ADHD it appeared like the Neverending action picture. yet now i do not options it as a lot with my preschoolers (who like it). LOVE the song, lol. That probable dates me somewhat then.
2016-12-28 12:20:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt know it was a book i might have to read it sometime though.
2007-01-08 19:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by Spread Peace and Love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've read it dozens of times, i find it much better than the movies ever were, the 3rd one in fact was completly stupid in my opinion
2007-01-08 18:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by roxas11235813213455 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read it. I thought it was pretty good.
2007-01-09 03:44:07 · answer #8 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋