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lo amarás Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. i'm quite convinced that dwj of 'howl's walking castle' and dwj of pretty much everything else are two different authors, because i can't explain why howl delights me and all other books leave in various states of meh otherwise. this said, this one was reasonably fun and easy to read, and didn't sent me into throes of irrational, teeth-grinding irritation like that one with griffons did. abdullah was nice, flattering speeches were funny, plot was reasonably twisty, if leaning on Sudden Revelations too heavily. i could live without subplot of abdullah being set up to marry two distant relative ladies of his and being repulsed by how, gasp, fat they were (detailed, horrified description) and then him marrying them to malevolent jinn and sending them to live with said jinn into magical exile without so much as stopping to consider their consent or the overall creepiness of this idea. i mean, what? what? (  ) egelantier | Feb 27, 2010 |  This sequel to Howl's Moving Castle was, to my taste, not nearly as fantastical or exciting. Instead, it was a bit of a mash-up of familiar stories from One Thousand and One Nights (well, I never read that, so let's say, Looney Tunes and Craig Shaw Gardner's Sinbad trilogy) and the characters from Howl's. It was kind of cute, and a bit fun to see the old crew again, but not on par with the previous book. ( ) lithicbee | Feb 8, 2010 | This book was great ,but it wasn't as good as its prequel Howl's Moving Castle. This book was great because its characters have a life before the book like Abdullah, the main character gets a carpet stand from his deceased father and sell carpets in an Persia like country. Abdullah has daydreams all the time that is untill they start coming true he will meet many friends hes met. newfieldreads | Feb 8, 2010 | Borrowed from my sister, this is the a book of magic set in a different world and sequel to Howls Moving Castle, which I read as a teenager and loved completely. As is often the case, I didn't really think the sequel matched the original. The new setting and characters had promise, but I found the pace a bit uneven and the character development fairly scare, particularly when the old characters made an appearance. All in all I think it would have been a more interesting read if it hadn't been tied into the previous novel at all. However, that said, it was a good fun, light read, and I'll probably try a couple more of her books at a later date. ( ) Steph78 | Jan 4, 2010 | I think this was a present from my mum last year, but it's been waiting in the to-read pile until I had a copy of Howl's Moving Castle to read first, for this is a sequel. And as in some of the best sequels it actually doesn't feature many characters from the first novel until near the end, and in a mainly supporting role. Abdullah isn't quite as engaging as Sophie was, but it's still a lovely book, with some interesting new characters of its own. Fun. (  ) lnr_blair | Jan 1, 2010 |  sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0064473457, Mass Market Paperback)Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. In his dreams he was not the son of his father, but the long-lost son of a prince. There was also a princess who had been betrothed to him at birth. He was content with his life and his daydreams until, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet. In this stunning sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones has again created a large-scale, fast-paced fantasy in which people and things are never quite what they seem. There are good and bad djinns, a genie in a bottle, wizards, witches, cats and dogs (but are they cats and dogs?), and a mysterious floating castle filled with kidnapped princesses, as well as two puzzling prophecies. The story speeds along with tantalizing twists and turns until the prophecies are fulfilled, true identities are revealed, and all is resolved in a totally satisfying, breathtaking, surprise-filled ending. (extraído de Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:34:01 -0500) La primera ronda de prueba se ha cerrado. Visita el grupo Open Shelves Classification para más información. |
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