The Neverending Story

Hardcover, 377 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1983 by Doubleday & Company.

ISBN:
978-0-385-17622-4
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OCLC Number:
938560510

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4 stars (13 reviews)

It begins when you become part of it, too...

Only once in a great while do stories come along that fulfill our deepest longing--our wish to experience true enchantment. THE NEVERENDING STORY is such a fantasy: the magical tale of a lonely, solitary boy who steps through the pages of a book into a special kingdom. There, in an imaginary land, on a special and dangerous quest, Bastian learns the true measure of his own courage. And learns that even he has the capacity to love. (front flap)

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A fantastic book about a neverending story.

5 stars

A fantastic book about a fantastic book and the journey that Bastian Balthazar Bux undertakes with (and in) it.

Probably more people are familiar with the movies, especially the first one, but that only covers the initial journey Bastian unknowingly undertakes as he follows the adventures of Atreyu (and Falkor, the Luckdragon) in Fantastica, while being lead to the Childlike Empress who needs a new name to live; a name that only a human can give.

Conscious of his looks, Bastian is hesitant to do what the Childlike Empress needs. She resorts to her last option: a visit to the Old Man of Wandering Mountain and a retelling of the Neverending Story (in computer terms, an infinite, recursive loop) that can only be broken by an outside force: her new name which Bastian declares to be Moon Child.

Now in Fantastica, Bastian is given Moon Child's amulet, AURYN, with the …

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5 stars

In America, there is pretty much one type of person that will consider reading this: those who have seen the movie. So how does it compare? Will it ruin childhood memories because of how different the book is from the movie? Or is the movie much better than the book? Ultimately, this will depend on what type of story you are in the mood for.

Both the book and the movie start out similar. Sure, Bastian is fat in the book, but he is still bullied, still has a dead mother, and still struggles in his relationship with his father. He also, of course, still steals the book. The main difference here is that the book does not set this up like the movie does. It is much more concerned with Bastian getting to the point when he reads the book than anything else. Up until the Southern Oracle portion, …

Subjects

  • Imagination -- Fiction.
  • Wishes -- Fiction.
  • Courage -- Fiction.
  • Fantastic fiction.