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by Michael Ende (Author) "LL the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (13 Dec 1984)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140074317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140074314
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 30,210 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o’-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world – through the pages of an old book – ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its Childlike Empress dying. Only a real human being can set things right by giving the Empress a new name. Bastian takes up the challenge, and finds himself crossing the Swamps of Sadness and the Silver Mountains, meeting sorcerers and giants, bats and night-hobs, gnomes and racing snails, as he journeys bravely toward the Ivory Tower, Bastian’s quest is filled with all the wonders of myth and fairy tale. It is a fantasy adventure that will capture your heart – and recapture the magical dreams of childhood.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A gem of a book!, 18 Jan 2002
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This review is from: The Never-ending Story (Puffin Books) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book deserves to be a classic. I remember reading it as a child thinking it was the best thing I had ever read. Now as an adult I still find it captivating. It's full of adventure and fantasy, most of all how one small child can make a difference in a world of imagination and dreams where "small" matters. For those of you who have seen the film adaptations and were put off, I would recommend you read the book. It's far better and far more encompassing. Michael Ende is one of those authors who you come across by surprise, enticing you with page after page of really good writing until eventually you wish the book really was neverending.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent story, one that can be read again and again, 2 May 2004
This review is from: The Neverending Story (Mass Market Paperback)
It is unfortunate that a movie was made out of this book, because it really takes away from it! This is a wonderful, original story - a boy named Bastian steals a book called "The Neverending Story" from a bookshop and hides himself in the schoolhouse attic to read it. The book he has stolen is about the magical world of Fantastica, a world that is interconnected with its ruler (the Childlike Empress); but she is dying, and Fantastica is dying with her. As he reads on, Bastian gets slowly more and more drawn into the book, until the two worlds begin to overlap...
The style of the book is clever and elegant. It is easy to distinguish the parts set in Fantastica from the parts set in the schoolhouse, for the parts in the schoolhouse are written in italics. The ideas are original (I love the idea of the "nothing" that engulfs Fantastica - you can't even see it properly because there is nothing to see) and nothing else I have ever read rivals it for ingenuity. Though the book is not particularly long, so much happens in it that by the time you reach the end you feel as if you have been reading it for years. The broad outline of the story that I gave only covers the first part of the book, I can't write any more because I don't want to spoil the story. It is also humourous and gives the reader a few things to think about, though not in an obvious way - the morals are there to be picked up if you happen to notice them. It is an absolute classic, and I would unhesitatingly recommend it to anybody who loves a really good fantasy novel. Just please do not watch the movies.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An Adult-sized Fairy Tale, 20 Dec 2004
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Until recently, I was blissfully ignorant that the popular movie I had seen several times (in my younger days) was actually based on a book.

Judging from the cover illustration of Bastian Balthazar Bux doing his "King of the World" thing aboard the Luck Dragon, you get the feeling that this is no ordinary fantasy book, and indeed it isn't.

I did get the feeling that some aspects of the story were lost in translation (which is another story altogether), as it has some abrupt swings in tone, the dialogue sometimes seeming clumsy and childish compared to the rest of the book - but that's nitpicking.

This is truly a Neverending Story, most of which springs from the imagination of the unlikely human hero, the aforementioned Master Bux, who steals the titular tome, and flees with it to the safety of his school attic, where he becomes much more than a casual onlooker of the worlds of Fantastica.

Michael Ende's imagination works overtime in creating Fantastica and all its inhabitants, and for each thrilling chapter, he introduces another story to be told at another time.

The main story however, is the metamorphosis of Bastian Bux from a frightened, insecure child, and the new relationship he was able to forge with his father after his great learning adventure.

Be wary in your reading of the adventures of The Childlike Empress, Atreyu, Morla, Ygramul, Falkor, Grograman, Hero Hynreck and Xayide, among others, beware the Nothing, and be careful what you wish for, least you also become a part of the Neverending Story, and forever lose your memories of this life.

Amanda Richards

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