

S'està carregant… Cor de tinta (2003)de Cornelia Funke
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Best Young Adult (60) » 30 més Best Fantasy Novels (323) Female Protagonist (257) Books Read in 2016 (1,546) Books Read in 2017 (1,306) Favourite Books (1,127) Books Read in 2020 (2,711) Magic Realism (227) Story Within a Story (35) Books tagged favorites (337) al.vick-series (174) PRC 2015 Years 7&8 (36) Book Hoppers (3) Books Read in 2021 (2,347) Books About Girls (104) Best middle grade books (122) Favorite Long Books (279) Unread books (903) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 9788498413199 It was a good book overall, but it was just too long and it felt like it was dragging on. I also think that the ending of this book was more than enough, and there doesn’t need to be a trilogy. Welp, I guess it was inevitable that, in rereading a bunch of classics from my childhood, I'd find one that just didn't hold up for me. I absolutely adored this book when I first read it--its physical beauty (I had the hardback), its fun characters, its enchanting premise, its literary references--but only three images really stuck with me over the years: Dustfinger performing his juggling and fire-eating acts for tourists; Don't get me wrong! The story is still fun, the writing still beautiful (such lovely similes!), the secondary characters lively, the central premise charming...but it just didn't feel as amazing as it did the first time I read it. Maybe it was a victim of nostalgia: I expected to be as awed as I was the first time, but just wasn't. It takes a long time--almost a third of the book--for Meggie to learn her dad's secret: that when he reads, his wonderful voice summons forth people and objects from the pages of the book in his hands. That's something that readers already know from the jacket description, and I ended up feeling impatient for Meggie to learn the secret and start being more proactive...which she never really is. Much of the plot happens around her and she's only an active agent in it twice, once at the beginning ( Still, Funke's strengths are present and many: she creates a big cast of characters and gives them all striking personalities so that we can tell them apart; many of the side characters are nuanced, with sometimes contradictory desires and emotions (which, honestly, made me a lot more interested in some of them than in Mo and Meggie, who were pretty static throughout--I'd have read a whole book about Aunt Eleanor or Basta, for instance); her writing is brimming with colorful imagery, even if the translation from German seems a bit choppy in places; and the story's pace never flags, even if it is a little bit slower than you'd expect from an adventure. Now, with the review done first, here's a plot summary for my forgetful brain (so I remember more than three things next time): 12-year-old Meggie lives constantly on the move with her father, Mo, who is a book binder. They are both voracious readers, though Mo prefers to make up elaborate stories rather than read them aloud. Book obsession runs in the family, so when a young man shows up one dark and stormy night and warns Mo that someone named Capricorn is coming for him, Mo takes up the offer of his long-lost wife's aunt to come fix up some of the books in her sprawling collection. Eleanor doesn't trust Dustfinger, who demonstrates for Meggie his talent as a juggler and (potentially book-endangering) fire-eater, or Meggie, who she assumes is a book-disrespecting child, but she'll take them in for the time being if it gives her a chance to read the mysterious and rare book,Inkheart, that Mo asks her to hide among her collection. Meggie, Mo, Eleanor, Dustfinger, and Farid (accidentally pulled out of One Thousand and One Nights) escape the crumbling town in the Italian hills that Capricorn and his men have tried to make resemble their home in Inkheart. Unfortunately, they've lost their copy of the book, which Mo can't bear, as it feels as if he's lost any chance of regaining his wife. With Meggie in tow, he tracks down Inkheart's author, Fenoglio, and trades his skills as a bookbinder for Fenoglio's help with a mysterious plan. This gets delayed a bit when Eleanor calls in hysterics--Capricorn has taken revenge on her by burning favorite books, and Mo needs to pick her up at the airport. While he's gone, in swoop Capricorn's men, whisking off Meggie and Fenoglio (though, in amusing twist, they don't actually believe he's the author of Inkheart because they can't imagine that an author would still be alive) as bait for Mo. Of course he and Eleanor go after Meggie, joining up with Dustfinger and Farid, who are already on site in the village hoping to reclaim that last copy of Inkheart. Meanwhile, Meggie confirms that she can also read things in and out of books, Capricorn finds out and is delighted, and Fenoglio puts Mo's plan into action: rewriting the end of Inkheart in a way that will hopefully get everyone out of the mess. Here at the end, many characters get complicated: > We learn that Dustfinger has kept secret the fact that Mo's wife is (imperfectly) back in our world, because he hopes she will forget Mo and choose him instead; > Farid, who had followed Dustfinger out of a desire to learn how to manage fire, finds that Mo makes a far better mentor but still decides to follow Dustfinger; > Basta, Capricorn's right-hand man, who loves his cruel knives but is incredibly superstitious and afraid of the fire that is his leader's calling-card, is heartbroken when his father figure throws him into disgrace; > Mo, who has refused to read books for fear of harming others, saves Meggie from having to read the part of Fenoglio's rewrite that kills people; > Eleanor, whose affection for Meggie and Mo has overridden her earliest distrust, opens her once carefully guarded house of books not only to her family but to fantastical refugees from Inkheart (her character arc reminded me a bit of Bilbo: a bit grumpy at first and fond of her comforts, but secretly up for an adventure, even if she complains the entire way); > and, in an interesting contrast, Fenoglio the author turns against his creations but can't let go of the thrill of seeing the power of his written words. Other characters are less complex, but still intriguing: Flatnose and Cockerel, two of Capricorn's brutal men; "the Magpie", Capricorn's mother and housekeeper, who's definitely a Slytherin; and Dustfinger, who's a sympathetic character and who doesn't physically hurt anyone, but whose selfish actions do cause harm; and Farid, whose ultimate choice of companion seems to go against good sense. And Meggie? She decides she wants to be a writer. Kind of an anticlimax compared to everyone else. Good translation. Good story. A good book, much better than the movie! I really like the thought and ideas that went into this story.
Such breathtaking things are going to happen, you cannot even imagine. SPECTACULAR!, FABULOUS! BREATHTAKING! If you've got to read a book it's got to be this one. Inkheart is a book about books, a celebration of and a warning about books. The "Inkheart" of the title is a book. I don't think I've ever read anything that conveys so well the joys, terrors and pitfalls of reading. ... When the villains are at last defeated and the denizens of the book tumble through into reality, it is quite disappointing to find them gaudy, small and trivial. Is Funke saying that, while books as books are wonderful, real life has a solid sort of grimness that renders make-believe flimsy? Or is she pleading with us to mix at least a little fantasy with our reality? I don't know. Inkheart leaves you asking such questions. And this is, to my mind, an important thing for a story to do. Contingut a
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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