Aravis Kenobi
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800 really isn't that bad. If you bought Lord of the rings in one volume, you wind up with around 1200 pages.
Inkheart Trilogy *Caution: Spoiler* Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke
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The book only took me from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. LotR took me about a week to finish.
But then, I was reading other books at the same time...
ahyperdude
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You sound like a big reader! The ink books also have really big letter sizes...
Hee hee, yes I am.
You're right, the Ink books have much bigger letter sizes. LotR had tiny print.
Aravis Kenobi
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The book only took me from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. LotR took me about a week to finish.
REally? LotR takes me a month per book. Which is why I don't read them very often at all.
Let me correct my statement... It did not take me a week to finish the entire series.
It took me a week to read RotK. It took me at least three to finish FotR, because at that point I didn't like the book and was only reading it so that I could see the movies. (How foolish I was!)
ahyperdude
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I LOVED Inkheart!!! The movie was incredible too!!! (Brenden Fraser
I agree, except about Brenden Fraser! He scares me!
I just finished reading Inkspell and Inkdeath.
The language was a bit rough at times and there was a lot of darkness, but the characters were so memorable and the plot was fascinating -- it had more twists than a skein of yarn after a cat has played with it.
The language was a bit rough at times and there was a lot of darkness, but the characters were so memorable and the plot was fascinating -- it had more twists than a skein of yarn after a cat has played with it.
ahyperdude
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I REALLY liked Inkheart, Inkspell was better, but I really didn't care for the ending of Inkdeath.
Warning - spoilers He was the callow, capricious, egotistical, amoral cheese-faced young man from our world who could write as well as read characters and objects into reality in the Inkworld. At first he was hired by Dustfinger and Farid to read them into Inkworld (he failed to send Farid there, doublecrossing him and Dustfinger). Then Mortola and Basta commissioned Orpheus to send them plus Mo to Inkworld so they could be revenged on Mo (because Mo had read the destruction of Mortola's son Capricorn into reality).
Mo's daughter Meggie made the mistake of reading Orpheus into Inkworld, and he set up shop for his own aggrandizement instead of helping rescue Dustfinger. Eventually he aligned himself with the Adderhead against Mo and Dustfinger but his attempts to doom Mo and manipulate Dustfinger were foiled. When the Adderhead was killed, Orpheus escaped into the North with some books of Fenoglio's with the intention of using Fenoglio's words to set up a comfortable new life for himself in that relatively uncharted part of Inkworld.
Mo's daughter Meggie made the mistake of reading Orpheus into Inkworld, and he set up shop for his own aggrandizement instead of helping rescue Dustfinger. Eventually he aligned himself with the Adderhead against Mo and Dustfinger but his attempts to doom Mo and manipulate Dustfinger were foiled. When the Adderhead was killed, Orpheus escaped into the North with some books of Fenoglio's with the intention of using Fenoglio's words to set up a comfortable new life for himself in that relatively uncharted part of Inkworld.
Right, I remember a little now ... So of course he will try to make a good life for himself based on the things he can read into his service and comfort ... but those things don't satisfy. He will need real friends and compatriots to have a fulfilling life... and those he won't be able to create out of nothing. Or if he does, he won't be able to control them. He'll either end up recognizing the error of his ways and returning to ask for forgiveness and to be part of a real society again ... or he'll suffer and grow worse and maybe even more powerful!
warning spoilers When Meggie first read Orpheus into Inkworld she said he would learn to put words together in new ways and then he would return to his world. So I would like to think the fairies take revenge on him (after all he did create hundreds of fairies that were slaughtered for the blood baths for the Adderhead and the White Book). Perhaps they can follow him into the north and ambush him, pulling his hair, burning his lips and tongue (so his voice is ruined for reading aloud ever again), breaking his glasses, and then Dustfinger steals back the books written by Fenoglio that Orpheus appropriated. Destitute, he returns to Ombrah and afterwards is read back into our world by Darius in such a way that he becomes mute.