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Neverending Story fanart ^^
Been intending using this blog as a notetaking place for things I read. Might as well commence with Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, see how this goes. I read some of this book in elementary or middle school, but the green/purple print kind of hurt my eyes back then for some reason, so I didn't get very far. No problem with it now, so let's see how this goes.
(Anyway also for the record I've seen all three films ofc. The second one, doesn't suck? The third one, well... well anyway the second one doesn't suck. (There's apparently a cartoon or something as well but I don't know anything about that.))
Alright starting The Neverending Story by Michael Ende now.
The chapter title for the prologue is written in reverse text, named after the bookshop's sign as seen from inside. ɿɘbnɒiɿoƆ bɒɿnoƆ lɿɒƆ ƨʞooઘ blO I said " oh that's brilliant" out loud to myself when I read that.
Mr Coriander is really laying into Bastian here isn't he.
Gracious this prose is good; I just want to quote like the whole thing where Bastian decides to steal the book
And now it's explaining why Bastian ran to his school after that and to the attic specifically; there's just so much in this book that just goes unexplained in the movie isn't there
Mouse. Living in the attic. We meet it then it's gone; sort of a Mario 1-1 of the fantastical characters we only catch glimpses of in the book itself
There's a teensy little bug crawling around in the pages here? Don't think it's part of anything but I wouldn't put it above them.
Been intending using this blog as a notetaking place for things I read. Might as well commence with Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, see how this goes. I read some of this book in elementary or middle school, but the green/purple print kind of hurt my eyes back then for some reason, so I didn't get very far. No problem with it now, so let's see how this goes.
(Anyway also for the record I've seen all three films ofc. The second one, doesn't suck? The third one, well... well anyway the second one doesn't suck. (There's apparently a cartoon or something as well but I don't know anything about that.))
Okay, getting into it, Ch 1
Being a will o the wisp sounds awesome
Be genderness
Carry a li'l flag
Lead fools to destruction
Night hob in the book:
Rock chewer's said-bookism is "crackled" n’ I just love that
Okay, so the lake not being there and not even a big hole there but nothing, that was a lot more terrifying in the movie; in the book they have time to clarify that it at least looks like blindness, and in the movie it leaves the details up to the imagination.
This bit is a lot more terrifying though: in the book the Nothing has this, pull? And so people just get swallowed up by the Nothing on purpose.
Back in the real world, the book mentions Bastian's ability to sensuously place himself in whatever he's reading- feel the textures and hear the voices and smell the smells. Foreshadows his physical inclusion into the book later on, but also... Like, it isn't that difficult to do with this book? The prose is so good, and describing such imaginative details, it's so like entirely immersive. Having trouble with remembering to stop and take notes on occasion.
Every corner of Fantastica is just, the cantina scene from Star Wars, isn't it.
Blfrgfgzsshg Rock Chewer just, EATS his own bicycle. Thought rocks were supposed to be even better than Lembas bread for a rock viewer, but I guess Pyornkrachzark was just very, very hongry.
Been intending using this blog as a notetaking place for things I read. Might as well commence with Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, see how this goes. I read some of this book in elementary or middle school, but the green/purple print kind of hurt my eyes back then for some reason, so I didn't get very far. No problem with it now, so let's see how this goes.
(Anyway also for the record I've seen all three films ofc. The second one, doesn't suck? The third one, well... well anyway the second one doesn't suck. (There's apparently a cartoon or something as well but I don't know anything about that.))
Turn around, look at what you seee-hee-hee-heeee… Ul de Rico concept art for THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984).
I posted some before HERE.