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Post by Dragon Spirit on Oct 15, 2008 13:41:15 GMT -5
This does not have to be about your favorite book. Mainly, post here if you know a good book that just had something that really stood out for you - a great theme, maybe a unique way of portraying a world... all in all, just an interesting read that you had to think differently about.
For example - Though not the book I was originally going to talk about in this thread, "The Phantom Tollbooth" is a great book (can't remember the author's name). I say it's original because of both the world that the main character enters, and the inhabitants of this land. It is 'unique' in the sense that everything in the fantasy land is more or less a play on words. For example, when you "jump to conclusions" you litterally end up jumping to an island called Conclusions (Or it's something like that). The whole book is filled with stuff such as that - one of the main characters is a watch dog: a dog that literally has a clock face on each of its sides.
Do you get the idea? Just any unique (and maybe slightly odd) books that are just so unique that you have to remember them.
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Post by Dragonelle on Oct 15, 2008 14:14:42 GMT -5
Well, one unique book that comes to mind for me, is one you suggested. The Invention of Hugo Cabret was such a good, and unique book. I loved how it told the story through pictures, that's the unique part. But I also loved all the twists, turns, and surprises along the way. I especially love the end. I won't say what happens, for those of you who want to read it, but it is a great ending. I may post some more unique books later, when I can think of them lol.
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Post by Dragon Spirit on Oct 24, 2008 20:32:32 GMT -5
I'm surprised: that didn't even come to my mind when I thought of this thread, though it is one of the most unique books I've read.
Well, the reason I made this thread was for the following book -
Brave Heart - by Miyuki Miyabe
Multiple reasons why it's unique.
1. the author is Japanese, and the book was (obviously, due to the author) translated from Japanese into English. 2. Yet again, due to the author, the book takes place (or at least takes place for the first 200 pages or so) in Japan - I have never read any sort of book (that's not historical) that takes place in Japan. 3. The idea. (it is a fantasy book, by the way). The whole idea I like of it is that the fantasy world that the main character enters is literally that: a world powered by the imaginations and minds of people in the so called 'real' world. And, for each 'traveler' (a person from the real world that comes to the land so that they can go on a journey and ask a wish of The Goddess) the land is slightly different - in other words, the land is more or less a physical representation of the person's mind. I found this amazing, especially in the how well it was portrayed by the author (and the translator - got to give him some credit as well). 4. The book is 816 pages long - the longest book I've ever read, and probably the longest book I will ever read that's not already some sort of classic.
This is one of the BEST books I have ever read (there are dragons in it, by the way. They're not a huge part of it, but a dragon is a fairly important character later on in the book), possibly even beating out Eragon ( I won't abandon Eragon too easily, but now that I think about it, Eragon really isn't that original, nor is it good enough to really make me think. In all truth, it hasn't left as much of an emotional impact on me as books like Brave Story).
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