Hardcover, 573 pages

German language

Published Aug. 15, 2003 by Dressler.

ISBN:
978-3-7915-0465-0
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A twelve-year-old girl named Meggie discovers that her father, Mo, can transport fictional characters out of books and into the real world by reading the stories out loud. Many years ago, Mo read a book called Inkheart and brought to life an evil villain named Capricorn, at the same time losing his wife inside the story. Now, after Capricorn kidnaps Mo to use his magical powers, Meggie must use her own abilites to stop Capricorn and save Mo, with the help of Fenoglio, the author of Inkheart, and Dustfinger, another character who was taken from Inkheart.

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reviewed Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Inkheart Trilogy, 1, bk. 1)

Frustrante

Esta novela me pareció frustrante. La primera vez que la leí tenía como 12 años, y no me gustó. Decidí darle otra oportunidad ahora, y tampoco me gustó. Los personajes toman decisiones pésimas que inevitablemente les causan problemas; pero estas decisiones no están bien justificadas ni pueden ser excusadas como "el personaje no tenía la información, por eso tomó esa mala decisión". No. Sólo toman malas decisiones para mover adelante la trama. Concedo que el concepto del libro es bueno, y que en ocasiones las situaciones son emocionantes, pero me parece que está ejecutado a medias, y las situaciones que son emocionantes terminan con resoluciones tontas que dan la sensación de que no hay realmente nada que perder. El villano es malo sólo porque es malo, y mientras que es posible suspender la incredulidad en este aspecto (siendo una novela para jóvenes adultos), es frustrante cuando los héroes de la …

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Twelve-year-old Meggie's father is a bookbinder, so she loves books and reading. One night a stranger comes to visit, and warns Meggie's father that someone called Capricorn is after a book he has, and in the morning Meggie's father tells her that they must leave, even though the school holidays are still a week away.

They drive southwards over mountains with the night visitory, whose name turns out to be Dustfinger, and go to stay with Meggie's great-aunt Elinor, another book lover, who agrees to hide the book in her library. But they had not been there for long when Capricorn's thugs came looking for it. The book is called "Inkheart".

Meggie, her father, her aunt, and the unreliable Dustfinger experience many fantastic adventures and encounter many dangers before the story ends, and it appears that the adventures continue in a sequel. It's an interesting story, in which the ordinary …

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