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Inkheart [Hardcover]

Cornelia Funke (Author)
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Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggie’s mother in.

Meggie, now a young lady, knows nothing of her father's bizarre and powerful talent, only that Mo will refuses to read to her. Capricorn, a being so evil he would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart," has searched for Meggie's father for years, wanting to twist Mo's powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use his beloved, oblivious daughter Meggie as bait!

Cornelia Funke’s imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut, The Thief Lord, and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert

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Grade 4-8-Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing fantasy. Meggie, 12, has had her father to herself since her mother went away when she was young. Mo taught her to read when she was five, and the two share a mutual love of books. Things change after a visit from a scarred man who calls himself Dustfinger and who refers to Mo as Silvertongue. Meggie learns that her father has been keeping secrets. He can "read" characters out of books. When she was three, he read aloud from a book called Inkheart and released Dustfinger and other characters into the real world. At the same time, Meggie's mother disappeared into the story. Mo also released Capricorn, a sadistic villain who takes great pleasure in murdering people. He has sent his black-coated henchmen to track down Mo and intends to force him to read an immortal monster out of the story to get rid of his enemies. Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger, and Meggie's great-aunt Elinor are pursued, repeatedly captured, but manage to escape from Capricorn's henchmen as they attempt to find the author of Inkheart in the hope that he can write a new ending to the story. This "story within a story" will delight not just fantasy fans, but all readers who like an exciting plot with larger-than-life characters. Pair this title with Roderick Townley's The Great Good Thing (2001) and Into the Labyrinth (2002, both Atheneum) for a wonderful exploration of worlds within words.
Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Book I've ever read, July 16 2004
This review is from: Inkheart (Hardcover)
This book was so good I could not put it down.I ended up getting in trouble because i was not doing my chores, i was reading instead. I read this book in about 1 week (but iam a very fast reader when i like a book alot). If you love the deep fanasty books like I do a really good series of books is the everworld series by K.A. Applegate. The everworld books took me a couple chapters to get everything straight but after that it was super!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas - but uneven pace, Jun 30 2004
This review is from: Inkheart (Hardcover)
Inkheart springs from a fascinating idea - that certain people can 'read' characters out of a book into this world. Meggie's father Mo is one such person, but this strange gift dealt a double-edged blow some years ago. The evil character of Capricorn and several other characters from a book sprang forth from the book "Inkheart" in exchange for Meggie's mother being pulled into the fictional world. Ever since Mo has been running and hiding from this villain and keeping the whole a secret from Meggie. Then one of the displaced characters, Dustfinger, tracks them down and their lives are put in grave danger. The pair flee to Meggie's aunt Elinor, who is lover of books and inhabits a house utterly devoted to them.
Meggie is the mainspring of the tale and carries it well. All the characters are well rounded, the evil is particularly evil in a vicious, ordinary way. Dustfinger is a most sympathetic creation, so terribly out of place and torn from the moorings of his own world. He desperately desires to return there, to its beauty and magic.
This can be rivetting stuff, but unfortunately the pace keeps bogging itself down in the how and where of the characters' travelling or some extra villainous maniacal threats.
An enjoyable read, and of course what will happen next?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Inkheart: all promises, no delivery, Jun 18 2004
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Janet L. Wilson (Vancouver BC Canada) - See all my reviews
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Eager to read Inkheart after the luminous The Thief Lord, I actually bought the thing in hardback! How disappointing then, to find that in spite of a wonderful premise (that certain magical readers can read characters into and out of books)this book fell completely flat.

I can only conclude that Funke was rushed to publication by her editorial and publishing team, and so failed to let this wonderful idea come to proper fruition in her writer's mind.

The book is stiff, poorly plotted, and the characters make jarringly illogical decisions that serve only to move the plot in yet another predictable direction. And the book is just plain boring, although I give Funke credit for creating just enough compelling character interactions (and an entrancing look at bookbinding) to keep you reading...just.

Funke is also guilty of showing off her academic prowess in the worst way, and while I suppose she meant to entice readers to read the books she quotes at every chapter head, and mentions throughout the text, the effect is rather annoying. Yes, Cornelia, I said to myself (wearily, yet again), you are a clever and well read girl, but I am getting very tired of you proving it to me over and over and over...

Other irritations:
-various stupidities by characters at crucial moments
-she makes the Italian countryside ugly
-ghastly, tah-dah type of ending, deus ex machina via magic...too easy, too pat, no texture or depth to it
-throws away some beautiful opportunities ie. horned martens, magical creatures, an exploration of slavery and the genesis of evil, mother/child and spousal connections as magical, childlessness providing a special, unencumbered ability to hear/understand/connect with all children etc.
-and throughout, stiff cardboard execution, so you are painfully conscious that this entire thing is a pile of fake scenery. You can practically see Cornelia pulling the strings.

I hope her publishers back off and let this lady write. My guess is she is a writer who needs a lot of time to write and rewrite, to generate her own special magic and to polish off the stiff and academic tone that dominates in Inkheart. The magical flow that carries us along in a truly good novel is missing here; I'd guess it's not that Funke can't do it, she just can't do it under pressure.

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