This Audio CD Book item from Listening Library was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.
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1) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. Inkheart melded the real world and a fantasy world in a way I never thought possible. As an English teacher, I loved how Funke praised the written word and then made it come alive. While I thought Inkheart dragged out the story a little bit, I was intrigued enough to read Inkspell, mostly because I wanted to see what happened to Mo, Meg, and Elinor.
Unfortunately, I couldn´t read more than 10 or so pages of Inkspell at a time. The beginning is fabulous as the characters get pulled into the new world.
But once they get there, the best characters lose their lead roles in the story. Really, Meg does not get to do much until late in the book, and Mo has his hands tied for most of the novel. Elinor is left behind so what are the 600 pages about? The answer is mostly new characters and conflicts, which are good, but it isn´t until around page 250 when you get a real sense of conflict. I only continued to read because I wanted a sense of closure. Eventually it builds and becomes interesting, since I felt this book wasn´t strong enough to read the next part, I rushed to the ending, which ironically is missing. There is only an abrupt end of a chapter and not much of clue as what is going to happen.
I loved the closure of Inkheart and I really felt that Funke was good enough to provide some closure in this book before setting up Inkdeath. That is not the case, so don´t read this unless you are really patient and plan to read part 3.¤ 2) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. The book is great, no mistake about it. Inkheart´s audiobook was so wonderful that perhaps there´s no way Brendan Fraser could possibly live up to the standard set. That said, however, his voice was flat in narration, and his voices for the characters were cheesily accented so that Farid sounded Russian (or ?) and Dustfinger had a vaguely Celtic accent, which was distracting to the story. My daughter and I also found that he lacked any subtley or depth of emotion--so that, for example, his reading of Fenolio´s angst came off as merely surly. I´m glad to see that Fraser wasn´t booked for the third installment, and immensly disappointed that he will play Mo in the movie . . . But more to the point, I´m really sorry I bougth this audiobook version of Inkspell. Read the book. You´ll be much happier!¤ 3) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. Listened to to Inkheart and loved the book...Redgrave does a fantastic job as the narrator. Unfortunately, Frasier does not!! Could not finish this one. Shame on the publishers for not contracting with Redgrave again.¤ 4) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. I loved Inkspell - Absolutely loved it. It was in the series of books that first inspired me to write. The plot was just entrancing... who else ever thought of being able to read yourself into a book? Certainly many people wished they could, but I don´t know of anyone else who has written about it. Finding a series such as this is a rare blessing. I loved Ombra, the Wayless Woods, and even the Castle of Night and the villain. The characters... how can you describe them? They´re just so memorable. I loved Dustfinger, Mo, Meggy, Farid, Fenoglio, etc all.
I can´t decide whether I liked Inkspell or Inkheart better. Both had their strong points. And both were simply enchanting.¤ 5) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. This is the second book in the "Inkheart" series, and it´s as good as the first! Bought this one for my neice, as well, and can´t wait for the third book to come out!¤ 6) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters came to life - and changed her life forever.
But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the original tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval inkscape once more.
Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long both are caught inside the book, too. There they meet Inkheart´s author, Fenoglio, now living within his own story. But the tale is much changed, and threatening to evolve in ways none of them would have ever imagined. Will Meggie, Farid, and Fenoglio manage to write the wrongs of a charmed world? Or is their story on the brink of a very bad ending?¤ 7) Audio CD Book Inkspell by Listening Library. Just a few chapters into Inkspell, Mo (a.k.a. "Silvertongue") sagely says to his daughter, "Stories never really end, Meggie, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don´t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page." A fitting meta-observation for this, the unplanned second installment in Cornelia Funke´s beloved now-trilogy. Of course, it´s that sort of earnest, almost gushing veneration of books and book-loving that made the absorbing suspense-fantasy Inkheart so wonderful in the first place, with that lit-affection getting woven integrally into the plot (Inkheart being both Funke´s first book in the series, and the fictitious book within that book, authored by the frustrated Fenoglio, now trapped within the book, er, within the book. Fenoglio, perhaps not surprisingly, self-referentially wishes in Inkspell that he had written a sequel to Inkheart.) Inkspell should serve as a special treat for fans of the first book, as characters from Inkheart who have found themselves in the "real world" (if there is such a thing) find themselves read back into their own mythic, word-spun world--along with some of our favorite "real-world" characters. As with the previous book, Funke´s greatest accomplishment here is telling such a rich and involving (and fun!) story, while still managing sweet, subtle commentary on the nature of words and meaning. Expect a tantalizing finale, too--as Funke says, "No reader will forgive me the ending, though, without a part three." (Ages 8 and up) --Paul Hughes¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 2-Dec-2008, 03072829299780307282927, 290-260-9X0-590-050-860-8 |
