Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

Het oneindige verhaal by Michael Ende

  • Started on: 2011-11-14
  • Finished on: 2011-11-15
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Children’s

Review van Engelse pocket editie, later vervangen door deze editie.
When I was younger (elementary school) I must have borrowed Het Oneindige Verhaal (The Neverending Story) dozens of times. In my memory it was a beautiful hardcover edition, printed in red and blue ink (red for the world, blue for Fantastica). I have been looking for such an edition for years, but it is quite hard to find. Last weekend, when looking through the books at a second-hand shop, I found an English paperback copy. Even though it doesn’t have the two colors (instead the distinction is made by cursive and non-cursive). I couldn’t keep this book in the case too long, so I immediately (re-)read it.
And it is as good as I remember. I had forgotten some parts (the length of Bastian’s part of the story), and misremembered some (I though the Childlike Empress was a lot less nice than she was). But I love this book. I love the characters, the story, the morale, the simple writing. I need to have this in Dutch to so I can read it to my future children. And I need to see the movie again. Five out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2011-11-14
  • Finished on: 2011-11-15
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Children’s

Review van Engelse pocket editie, later vervangen door deze editie.
When I was younger (elementary school) I must have borrowed Het Oneindige Verhaal (The Neverending Story) dozens of times. In my memory it was a beautiful hardcover edition, printed in red and blue ink (red for the world, blue for Fantastica). I have been looking for such an edition for years, but it is quite hard to find. Last weekend, when looking through the books at a second-hand shop, I found an English paperback copy. Even though it doesn’t have the two colors (instead the distinction is made by cursive and non-cursive). I couldn’t keep this book in the case too long, so I immediately (re-)read it.
And it is as good as I remember. I had forgotten some parts (the length of Bastian’s part of the story), and misremembered some (I though the Childlike Empress was a lot less nice than she was). But I love this book. I love the characters, the story, the morale, the simple writing. I need to have this in Dutch to so I can read it to my future children. And I need to see the movie again. Five out of five stars.