1. Die Unendliche Geschichte Soundtrack

I am 40 and I don't like fantasy. I read this book when I was ten, then a couple of times as an adult and I read it to children too. I never get tired I am 40 and I don't like fantasy. I read this book when I was ten, then a couple of times as an adult and I read it to children too. I never get tired of it.

Style is great, and it's less centered on good vs evil dynamics, more on personal growth. It's not about escaping in a fantasy world, it is about learning to live in the world, and to tell reality from imagination. One mile above all other children books.

One of my favorite books of all time; this one is definitely closest to my heart. I've certainly read it more than any other (Ender's Game being a close second). Which is interesting because it's almost nothing like any of my other favorites (besides maybe Watership Down). Maybe it's because it's the first main character I was able to truly identify with.

Or maybe because Bastian does what I had always dreamed of as a child, since the day I started reading: to enter inside a book, to turn my ima One of my favorite books of all time; this one is definitely closest to my heart. I've certainly read it more than any other (Ender's Game being a close second). Which is interesting because it's almost nothing like any of my other favorites (besides maybe Watership Down).

Maybe it's because it's the first main character I was able to truly identify with. Or maybe because Bastian does what I had always dreamed of as a child, since the day I started reading: to enter inside a book, to turn my imagination into reality. And what is this book if not the most beautiful ode to imagination and story telling?The first time I read this I was probably about 11 or 12 and it was after seeing The Neverending Story II in the theater. Till that moment I had never known The Neverending Story was a book, and just happened to notice this in the credits. Thank god I did.

The fact that it led me to the book is probably the only redeeming factor of that film.I read the book all in one day, from morning till night, with nothing but the same lunch Bastian packed for himself in the movie (I may have cheated later on at night. It's tough when you're not actually hiding in the attic of your school, but lounging on your bed). And I've probably read it at least once a year since then.Even as an adult (am I really one of those now???), I still love being transported to this world, and I think it's a testament to the power of this book that it can still take me there. From Atreyu's quest to Bastian coming to fantastica, to their travels and adventures and Bastian's eventual journey home, I'm with them the whole way. A secret part of me still hopes that the Childlike Empress will appear before me, and that I can join Bastian and Atreyu for real in fantastica. Till then, the book and my imagination will have to do.

For anyone who loves reading through and through, and who still has that sense of childhood wonder inside of them, please read this book. Die Unendliche Geschichte = The never ending story, Michael EndeThe Neverending Story is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, first published in 1979. An English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films.

The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, a overweight and strange child who is neglected by his father after the death of Bastian's mother. While escaping from some bullies, Bastian bursts into the antiquarian Die Unendliche Geschichte = The never ending story, Michael EndeThe Neverending Story is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, first published in 1979. An English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films. The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, a overweight and strange child who is neglected by his father after the death of Bastian's mother.

While escaping from some bullies, Bastian bursts into the antiquarian book store of Carl Conrad Coreander, where he finds his interest held by a book called The Neverending Story. Unable to resist, he steals the book and hides in his school's attic, where he begins to read.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و سوم ماه سپتامبر سال 2009 میلادیعنوان: داستان بی پایان؛ نویسنده: میکائیل انده؛ مترجم: شیرین بنی احمد؛ تهران، نشر روز، 1368؛ در 603 ص، مصور، چاپ دیگر: تهران، نشر چشمه، کتاب ونوشه؛ 1385؛ در 578 ص؛ شابک: 304؛ موضوع: داستانهای خیال انگیز از نویسندگان آلمانی - سده 20 مآدمهائی وجود دارند که هرگز نمیتوانند به سرزمین رویاها بروندرمان خیال‌پردازی آلمانی است، که توسط «میشائل (میکائیل) انده»، نگاشته شده، و در سال 1979 میلادی در «آلمان» انتشار یافته‌ است. تا کنون چندین فیلم از این داستان اقتباس شده‌ است. داستان کتاب در دنیای رؤیاها، به وقوع می‌پیوندد.

دنیای رؤیاها، که به موازات دنیای حقیقی وجود دارد، در حال نابودی توسط هیچ است. نخستین قهرمان داستان پسری است، که از سوی ملکه، مأموریت یافته‌ تا دنیای رؤیاها را، نجات دهد. دومین قهرمان، پسری از دنیای حقیقی است، که کتابی را با همین نام در دست دارد، و داستان به تدریج برایش شکلی حقیقی به خود می‌گیرد. باستیان بالتازار بوکس، با مردی ملاقات می‌کند، که صاحب یک کتابفروشی قدیمی است. او کتابی را از این کتاب فروشی می‌دزدد، شروع به مطالعه‌ اش میکند، و به آرامی به بخشی از آن تبدیل می‌شود. داستان کتاب از آنجایی آغاز می‌شود، که دنیای رؤیاها با خطری جدی مواجه شده‌ است.

هیچ (پوچی) به آرامی همه جا را فرا می‌گیرد. ملکه ی بی‌آلایش که خود نیز به سختی بیمار است، جنگجویی به نام: آتریو، از نژاد سبز پوستان را برای پیدا کردن راه علاجی، به دنبال جستجوی بزرگ می‌فرستد.

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آتریو بسیار شجاع است و با وجود اینکه هم سن و سال باستیان است، همانند مردان فکر می‌کند. آتریو در جستجوی خود با شخصیت‌های گوناگونی همانند: مورلای کهنسال، دو کوتوله به نام‌های: اورگل و انگیووک، اویولالا، و همچنین یک اژدهای بخت به نام: فوخور، مواجه می‌شود. فوخور که آتریو او را از دام ایگرامولِ بی‌شمار نجات داده‌ است، تا پایان سفر به همراه آتریو میماند و کمکش می‌کند. در طول سفر آتریو متوجه می‌شود که برای نجات دنیای رؤیاها باید نام جدیدی به ملکه ی بی‌آلایش داده شود، و این کار تنها از عهده ی فرزند انسان برمی‌آید. باستیان با دادن نام «فرزند آفتاب»، به دنیای رؤیاها که تقریباً نابود شده‌ وارد میشود و ملکهٔ بی‌آلایش از او می‌خواهد تا دنیای رؤیاها را دوباره و با کمک تصور خویش بسازد. باستیان با کمک گردنبند آرین که به او قدرتی می‌دهد تا به وسیله ی آرزوهای خود هر آنچه را اراده می‌کند در سرزمین رؤیاها به انجام رساند، سرزمین رؤیاها را کاوش کرده، از میان گوپ، خلنگزار رنگ‌ها می‌گذرد، با گزائید جادوگر مبارزه می‌کند، و در طول این ماجراها با آتریو دوست می‌شود. اما به مرور زمان گزائید، باستیان را خام کرده او را وامیدارد تا رؤیای پادشاهی دنیای رؤیاها را در سر بپروراند، او تا آنجا پیش می‌رود، که در جنگی نابرابر به روی آتریو شمشیر کشیده، و او را زخمی می‌کند.

هر بار که یکی از آرزوهای باستیان به حقیقت می‌پیونند، او یکی از خاطراتش را در دنیای حقیقی، فراموش و از یاد می‌برد. هنگامی که تقریباً خاطره‌ ای برایش باقی نمانده، به معنای راستین، مأموریتی که باید توسط آرین به انجام برساند پی می‌برد. آتریو و فوخور به کمک باستیان آمده، و سرانجام او موفق می‌شود که به دنیای حقیقی بازگردد. هنگامی که باستیان به دنیای حقیقی بازمی‌گردد، کتاب ناپدید شده‌ است. باستیان سعی می‌کند که با صاحب کتاب فروشی، آقای کورِآندر صحبت کرده توضیح دهد که کتاب چگونه ناپدید شده‌ است، و با تعجب درمی‌یابد که صاحب کتاب فروشی به داستان او علاقمند است.

کتاب با این جملات پایان می‌یابد: «باستیان بالتازار بوکس، اگر اشتباه نکنم تو به بعضی‌ها راه ورود به سرزمین رؤیاها را نشان خواهی داد تا از آب چشمه ی زندگانی برای ما ارمغان بیاورند.» آقای کورآندر اشتباه نمی‌کرد؛ ولی این داستان دیگری است که بعدها بازگو خواهیم کرد. Read this to my daughter recently. A very mixed bag.First off I should say that although the book was written in 1979 it reads as though it were written in 1939.

The translator has consistently reached for the most complicated/high falutin' word available and as a result the child's book ends up unreadable/incomprehensible to many modern kids. I'm not one for dumbing down, but this goes the other way pointlessly.I saw the film around the time it came out years ago. The book seems to reach the en Read this to my daughter recently. A very mixed bag.First off I should say that although the book was written in 1979 it reads as though it were written in 1939. The translator has consistently reached for the most complicated/high falutin' word available and as a result the child's book ends up unreadable/incomprehensible to many modern kids.

I'm not one for dumbing down, but this goes the other way pointlessly.I saw the film around the time it came out years ago. The book seems to reach the end of the film by about half way through. That first half is cleverly done with a good idea about binding the reader and the adventure together in a 'meta' way that works out really well. The pacing is ok, the imagination great - chaotic, but good.For me Ende should have stopped there and wrapped it up.The second half of the book feels. Never ending. It's a slow, overdone, meander through a fairly arbitrary world and the 8 year old I was reading it to (we finished the book on her 9th birthday) was, like me, less than gripped.

We soldiered on. And on.Eventually the massively drawn out moral lesson / reconstruction of our hero's personality completes and the final scenes of reunion are quite touching and uplifting.So the first half was a 4. for me, the second half a 2. Like many people of my generation, I loved the film adaptation (the first, not the second, thank you) and never realized that it had come from a book until a number of years later.

In fact, I read it the first time in '07 and not only was I delighted at how imaginative it was, I was flabbergasted (joyfully so) that it lived up to its name.It's quick reading, by any standard, but so deliciously dense in imagery, mythology, and an engrossing plot that I swore that if I had any children, this would Like many people of my generation, I loved the film adaptation (the first, not the second, thank you) and never realized that it had come from a book until a number of years later. In fact, I read it the first time in '07 and not only was I delighted at how imaginative it was, I was flabbergasted (joyfully so) that it lived up to its name.It's quick reading, by any standard, but so deliciously dense in imagery, mythology, and an engrossing plot that I swore that if I had any children, this would be a staple of their diet.Now that I have a little girl, I'm just too anxious to start reading it to her. I really can't sit still. I keep picking up the book and going, 'Is she old enough, yet? Then I set down the book and tear out my metaphorical hair and let out a forlorn cry.

Then I get a fantastic idea:I could just read it again, for myself!Then everything is right with the world again and I'm able to write a new review.This is easily one of my favorite tales, ever.An extra goodie: April had a great review that forced me to think and respond in (I hope) a comprehensible way. Check it out.

I loved most of what I read, yet I’m stopping on page 352; I just can’t continue. And you know, I’m not entirely sure why I can’t continue -– I just know that I can’t.But I have a theory.Having loved the movie version of this in my youth, the whole story is etched into the part of my psyche that deals with childhood; that time when so much is new; where much in the world is observed through an inner-wonder of the mind and a stirring of the soul: a magical state, by adult standards.

Freud may ha I loved most of what I read, yet I’m stopping on page 352; I just can’t continue. And you know, I’m not entirely sure why I can’t continue -– I just know that I can’t.But I have a theory.Having loved the movie version of this in my youth, the whole story is etched into the part of my psyche that deals with childhood; that time when so much is new; where much in the world is observed through an inner-wonder of the mind and a stirring of the soul: a magical state, by adult standards. Freud may have been a kook with some of his beliefs, but psychologists today with all their studies and time-tested proofs, and technology measuring brainwaves, chemicals, etc, now heavily emphasize the impact our childhood has on our adult self. And “self” is everything.Much of what I read captured me, putting me in a state in which I was accessing stirred-up feelings through a strange inner memory that I’m incapable of generating even partly on my own, without help, as an adult. The inability to directly replicate the magical feelings that used to be a normal part of our existence as children, yet somehow being aware of them in some odd way now is, in part, I think, why our childhood has the power to affect us so greatly. Even though past thought-processes can’t be fully realized, our greater psyche has a keen memory of them - it knows exactly what once existed. And sometimes we can reinvigorate hints of what we felt during parts of youth through songs, pictures, books, and movies; and if it’s something that was specifically wonderful to us as children, all the more magical and powerful our hint of feeling now will be, if triggered properly.I hadn’t seen the movie in many years; not since youth, in fact.

So reading this swept me into that childlike place of consciousness where everything is awash in wonder. Each piece of familiarity was somewhat cognizant, yes; I knew I had experienced these scenes before through the movie; but the feelings they evoked were wonderfully vague and surreal; awakening, reminding some part of my inner-self how the world seemed when newness and innocence ruled the day; an encompassing sense of past magic.The movie version is completed at the book’s halfway point, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise that that was when my captivation vanished. The book is very well written, and fantasy fans are sure to completely dig it; it’s a smart, engaging book with important themes.

But its strong pull left me, and I was unable to continue in the same state of enthrallment and wonderment. Just like now, as an adult, I can never truly feel like a complete child again.

I can only hope to get dashes of that former self, and can only do so in rare circumstances.But when I am gifted such magic, I will gladly take it and realize it for the priceless treasure that it surely is. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,The Nothing is devouring Fantastica bit by bit and The Childlike Empress tasks Atreyu with stopping it. Meanwhile, holed up in his school's attic, Bastian Balthazar Bux reads a purlorned book and soon finds himself pulled into. The Neverending Story!Not too long ago, I bought my wife tickets to see the rerelease of The Dark Crystal in the theater and we got to talking about fantasy movies from the 1980s, which lead to rewatching The Neverending Story. Days after that, I found this book in the The Nothing is devouring Fantastica bit by bit and The Childlike Empress tasks Atreyu with stopping it. Meanwhile, holed up in his school's attic, Bastian Balthazar Bux reads a purlorned book and soon finds himself pulled into.

The Neverending Story!Not too long ago, I bought my wife tickets to see the rerelease of The Dark Crystal in the theater and we got to talking about fantasy movies from the 1980s, which lead to rewatching The Neverending Story. Days after that, I found this book in the used bookstore I always go to and decided to give it a read.If you've ever seen the movie, the first 45% of the book is 99% of the movie, with the standard book to movie tweaks, expunged parts, etc. Fantastica was changed to Fantasia for the movie. Some of the creatures look different. Atreyu is green, Falkor looks more like a lion than a dog, and so on. Entire scenes are omitted and dialogue is shuffled around to other characters to make up the difference. I kept telling my wife 'Most of the movie has happened.

What the hell is going to be in the second half?' Well, the ending of the movie provides the hint. Once Bastian saves Fantastica, it's his responsibility to help rebuild it. Shit starts sliding downhill immediately after.

Without going into it too much, absolute power corrupts absolutely and Bastian does what a lot of insecure people would do with godlike powers: abuses the shit out of it and becomes a raging dickhead. We all should have seen it coming.

He stole a book in the first chapter! He goes from being a relateable bookworm to an A-1 shitheel. After a bloody battle at the Ivory Tower, I wondered if Bastian could ever be redeemed.Sure enough, he could. The last 80 pages were about Bastian seeing the error of his ways and using what little wishes he had left to leave Fantastica and generally grow the fuck up.

The reunion with his father was pretty sweet and his conversation with Coreander puts a bow on everything.Now that I've had time to digest thing, the book seems to partly be about coping with loss. Bastian and his father coping with his mother's death, and later, Bastian coping with losing everything the Childlike Empress gave him. It's also about taking responsibility for your actions and not being a chickenshit all the time.

Bastian Balthazar Bux at the end of the book is almost totally different from the one at the beginning.I wound up enjoying the book quite a bit but, like Falkor's depiction, the movie and the book are totally different animals. The movie captured the adventurous bits without all the morals in the second half. Michael Ende definitely crafted something special here. I wonder how much was lost in translation, though. I had my doubts about the second half but it was all worth it in the end, if a little sappy. Four out of five stars.

I read this every year. This time I'm doing an audio version. I absolutely adore this novel, and shared it with every class I taught. I'll never forget the students who acted out the swamps of sadness in the middle of a walk through river mud sucking off our shoes.

That's really what the gift of this book is-the breath of imagination. This will be a perfect purchase for my nieces.2017 Reading Challenge: story within a storyAudio reread #86/20/18 audio read # 73The beginning scene in the bookstor I read this every year. This time I'm doing an audio version. I absolutely adore this novel, and shared it with every class I taught. I'll never forget the students who acted out the swamps of sadness in the middle of a walk through river mud sucking off our shoes. That's really what the gift of this book is-the breath of imagination. This will be a perfect purchase for my nieces.2017 Reading Challenge: story within a storyAudio reread #86/20/18 audio read # 73The beginning scene in the bookstore with the narrator 's list of 'If you've nevers' is something that touches both the child inside me and the reader in me that will never die.12/20/18 holiday reread I know it’s a little early for my annual reread since I just read it in June, but I really need a pick-me-up.

This never fails.Audiobook #258. My children are currently listening to a never-ending audiobook of this all time children's favourite of mine, and I find myself secretly spying on them, listening to bits and pieces of the story, always knowing exactly where they are at the moment, after so many rereadings!I still dream of finding a bookstore like the one where Bastian Balthasar Bux found 'The Neverending Story'. I don't think I ever pass an antique shop without thinking of this book for at least a fraction of a second, it is s My children are currently listening to a never-ending audiobook of this all time children's favourite of mine, and I find myself secretly spying on them, listening to bits and pieces of the story, always knowing exactly where they are at the moment, after so many rereadings!I still dream of finding a bookstore like the one where Bastian Balthasar Bux found 'The Neverending Story'. I don't think I ever pass an antique shop without thinking of this book for at least a fraction of a second, it is so deeply engraved in my heart and mind. Who has never dreamt of being a castaway in the school attic, with some food, some light, and a book that -literally - soaks you in?I still hear the loud cry when Bastian thinks he sees himself in the mirror that Atreju stares into. And I still hear him yell the name of the Empress: 'Mondenkind', in German, probably Moonchild in English, in order to save that beautiful fantasy world from the big, dark nothing that is eating it as a result of children losing interest in storytelling.I read the book in German as a child and saw the movie later - and I was always annoyed by the fact that it ends halfway through! Bastian's adventures and his slow path to wisdom haven't even started yet at the end of the movie.

Therefore I read it aloud to my children before letting them watch the movie, and I discovered so many layers in it that had escaped me as a child, and I enjoyed it even more. Especially Bastian's interpretation of the Auryn inscription ('Tu was du willst', in German - 'Do what you want to do') has been helpful to me ever since.

Bastian painfully learns the hard way that it is not about spontaneously following your own whims, but about reflecting on what your true wishes are. That makes total sense to me, and I try to consult my invisible Auryn medallion whenever I have to make important decisions!Now that my children are embarking on their second reading (hearing) of the story, they start talking about how the plot changes in their minds as they develop a more mature taste in literature. I find that incredibly valuable, and here I am myself, revisiting this childhood love again, and finding pleasure in writing about it.Apart from Astrid Lindgren, Michael Ende must be my favourite children's book author, and I like him just as much now as when I was little and dreamt of being locked into the school attic with a book that never ends and that has a place for me and the stories I want to tell myself! The Neverending StoryBy Michael EndeA Review by Eric Allen.'

ONLY TWO STARS,' you cry, 'Eric, have you no soul!?!?!' You're obviously going by the movie, which is AWESOME, and have never actually read the book it was based on, which is not so much.When I was six or seven, the Neverending Story came out, and it was one of the most awesome movies I had ever seen in my life. It was a movie that wasn't afraid to scare the everliving shit out of children, and I loved it for that. Even today, many, ma The Neverending StoryBy Michael EndeA Review by Eric Allen.' ONLY TWO STARS,' you cry, 'Eric, have you no soul!?!?!'

You're obviously going by the movie, which is AWESOME, and have never actually read the book it was based on, which is not so much.When I was six or seven, the Neverending Story came out, and it was one of the most awesome movies I had ever seen in my life. It was a movie that wasn't afraid to scare the everliving shit out of children, and I loved it for that.

Even today, many, many years later, it is still an old favorite that I remember fondly and hope, one day, to scare the everliving shit out of my own children with. The book, on the other hand, is something of a mess. First of all, many people were not aware that it even existed. Fewer people still realize that the extremely terrible Neverending Story II movie was actually part of the book.

That's right, the same author that gave you The Neverending Story, ALSO gave you The Neverending Story II. Think on that for a minute and tell me your childhood isn't curled up in a little ball in the closet crying.The book was originally written in German, brought to you on the screen by a German director and crew, and only after the movie was so popular did the book get translated into a few more languages.The plot of The Neverending Story needs no summarizing for most people. It's a very basic telling of the hero's journey story archetype. What makes it so awesome and memorable, of course, is the world in which it takes place, and the fact that the villain was something more abstract than an actual, tangible foe that can be fought and defeated. The second half of the book focuses on the child Bastion, who is pulled into the book after giving the Childlike Empress her new name, which, by the way, people have been asking for years, because that kid is completely unintelligible in the movie.

Her name is Moon Child. However, I believe that, for whatever reason, the name was translated literally, rather than left in the original German. Bastion must make his way back to the real world by making wishes, but for each wish he makes, he loses precious memories from his life. And it is only through the help of his friends Atreiyu and Falkor that he is able to return at all.The Good? The first half of the book is excellent. I absolutely love it.

The movie stays extremely faithful to the source material. The world is imaginative, the hero is a bit of a blank slate, but likeable all the same, and a lot of the things that he goes through on his quest serve a dual purpose, to both be entertaining, and thought provoking. The use of an abstract concept, the Nothing, as the villain is where I think this part of the book really shines. It's very hard to give a concept weight as a character, but the author did an extraordinary job of bringing it, and all of the horror surrounding it, to life.The Bad?

Where this book really falls apart is in the second half. You remember how excited you were to see Neverending Story II when it came out? I know I was. And boy was I disappointed. Well, the second half of the book is pretty much the same. They changed the story drastically to make it easier to make a movie out of it, because there really isn't much in the way of purpose or direction in it. There isn't a real goal, or reason for anything to be happening.

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Bastion just wanders around, makes wishes, and pretty much accidentally finds his way home again.This boring stretch of nothing happening is compounded by two things. The first is that the first half of the book is so clever, and awesome, and enjoyable, and when you get to the second half it's like running headlong into a brick wall. All of the awesome world, the awesome supporting characters, and even the hero of the story are simply gone, and you're left with only Bastion. And that leads in to the second thing. Bastion is an extraordinarily unlikeable character. It's hard to describe all of the things that make him unlikeable, because pretty much EVERYTHING about his character is annoying or offensive in some way.

And after Atreiyu, who is not exactly the most interesting character, true, but a hell of a lot more likeable than Bastion, you feel the contrast all the more.When you actively dislike the person that a story is all about, the story itself is not enjoyable. What creates such things as tension, and drama, are emotional attachments to the characters.

If you don't like the character, and don't care whether he succeeds or not, any story woven around him is, inevitably going to be terrible as well. And that is exactly what is wrong with the second half of the book. Bastion is so unlikeable as a character, that I just couldn't have cared less what he was doing, or why, and I certainly didn't care if he was going to succeed or not. You go from a relatively enjoyable protagonist in the first half, to someone who literally has not one single redeeming quality in him as the protagonist in the second half. The fact that there is no readily defined plot for him to participate in makes it even worse, because when there is no real storyline, all of the entertainment value in a story rests wholly upon the characters. The second half of this book is about a terrible, unlikeable character, doing basically nothing but wandering around the world and showing how terrible and unlikeable a character he is.Additionally, this book is not very well written.

I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt and say that it's probably the translator being unable to convey the original German wording properly into English, and all of the little nuances of prose that make a well written book were lost in translation. But there is probably one thing that was definitely in the original German. The author keeps bringing up what sounds like a really awesome tangent to the story, and then saying, 'But that's a different story and will not be spoken of here.' WHY EVEN BRING IT UP IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Oh my GOD is this annoying. He literally does it like forty times over the course of the book.

It was cute once or twice, but it just gets more and more annoying with every time it happens.In conclusion, though The Neverending Story movie will always have a special place in my heart, the book it was based on is better left forgotten. I believe that a lot was lost in translation, when this book was adapted to English, but that can only account for so much. The first half of the book is very enjoyable, with a few odd quirks of writing that I found to be annoying, most of which probably resulted from English not being the original language that the book was written in. The second half of the book is terrible, following a thoroughly unlikeable character as he does absolutely nothing but display what an arrogant douchebag that he is for all the world to see. I do not recommend picking this book up, unfortunately. And if you do, I highly recommend that you only read the first half.

The bad more than outweighs the good. Stick to the movie, and remember all the great times you had with it as a child. It's one of the few rare cases of the movie actually being better than the book. The movie, at least, knew exactly when to shut up, come to a conclusion, and wrap things up with a tidy little bow. I wish I could say the same for the book, but I can't.

It gets two stars, which is probably one more than it deserves, but hey, nostalgia is a powerful thing. IN ORDER FOR REALITY TO EXIST, THERE HAS TO BE FANTASY.The Neverending Story is a splendid and brilliant story, full of adventure, magic, strength, perseverance, loyalty, self-improvement and self-fulfillment. It’s a positively COMMENDABLE book.This is a MUST-READ for all preteens out there. It’s beautiful, with a great and marvelous world full of fantasy and dreaming. It really is MAGICAL.I have really great memories of reading this book. I think I was 13 or so, maybe less I am not sure; bu IN ORDER FOR REALITY TO EXIST, THERE HAS TO BE FANTASY.The Neverending Story is a splendid and brilliant story, full of adventure, magic, strength, perseverance, loyalty, self-improvement and self-fulfillment. It’s a positively COMMENDABLE book.This is a MUST-READ for all preteens out there.

It’s beautiful, with a great and marvelous world full of fantasy and dreaming. It really is MAGICAL.I have really great memories of reading this book.

I think I was 13 or so, maybe less I am not sure; but I remember I read it on a summer after summer-camp. It was my first 'big fat' book and I became soooo obsessed with it that I couldn't stop reading. That summer I was on vacation with my parents in our usual campsite and I would sit outside our caravan, below a three in a deck chair for hours reading and reading, and completely ignoring all my friends who looked at me as if I were a crazy person for reading during holiday time. I was utterly absorbed by it. Looking back, this book might have been the culprit of me falling in love with books, up until that time I had always liked and enjoyed reading, but I believe it was that summer, with The Neverending Story that I truly fell in love with reading.

Thus, it will always be a special book for me.In my opinion The Neverending Story is meant to be read at a specific moment of time, it should be read at a young age so you can still get into the daydreaming and enchanting spirit the whole book is surrounded. Otherwise you can outgrow this fantastic story and that could make it lose all its wondrous magic.Still, I recommend this book to everyone, after all just how many times have we ever wished to enter a book just like Bastian did! This is one of the best books I have read when I was a kid.I have read it multiple times and I was extremely disappointed with the movie adaptation.I truly believe that this story has inspired me and made me love Fantacy books so much later on as an adult.(If my remember correctly my godfather gave it to me as a Christmas present together with 'Comet in Moominland' by Tove Jansson. The best combination!)Although it is more than 25 years since I last read it, I still remember scenes of the story This is one of the best books I have read when I was a kid.I have read it multiple times and I was extremely disappointed with the movie adaptation.I truly believe that this story has inspired me and made me love Fantacy books so much later on as an adult.(If my remember correctly my godfather gave it to me as a Christmas present together with 'Comet in Moominland' by Tove Jansson.

The best combination!)Although it is more than 25 years since I last read it, I still remember scenes of the story, dialogues, lonely Bastian, Arteiyu and Fantastica.Of course when I read it for first time, it was the Greek translation of the book.Now I have a daughter who is six years old and she loves fairytales, dragons, princesses and magic. She also adores stories that they never end. When they eventually do end, she finds ways to postpone the ending and to expand the story. She has a vivid imagination this kid:)So it is Christmas holidays, school holidays and this is the perfect opportunity to start a neverending story with her(in english this time). No school tomorrow.

No need to sleep early.And so far she cannot have enough! Is the Eternal Stench a real place?

Find more information about:OCLC Number:561055027Notes:Translation of: Die unendliche Geschichte.Reproduction Notes:Electronic reproduction. S.l.: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDLDescription:1 online resource (396 pages): color illustrationsDetails:Master and use copy.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.Other Titles:Unendliche Geschichte.Responsibility:Michael Ende; translated by Ralph Manheim; illustrated by Roswitha Quadflieg.More information:.Abstract.