Guai qi gu er yuan

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Ransom Riggs

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Ransom Riggs: Guai qi gu er yuan (Chinese language, 2012, Ying shu Weijing qun dao shang Gao bao guo ji you xian gong si Taiwan fen gong si)

383 pages

Chinese language

Published Jan. 12, 2012 by Ying shu Weijing qun dao shang Gao bao guo ji you xian gong si Taiwan fen gong si.

ISBN:
978-986-185-745-9
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OCLC Number:
826334074

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(90 reviews)

2 editions

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

A peculiar book. Very much so. At first I found the book was very slow in picking up speed. Perhaps it was necessary to solidify the background of the main story but I feel it could have been done a bit quicker considering it’s not a very long story. That’s why I cut off half a star.

All in all however it was a very interesting and engaging story, painting a remarkable (peculiar) world inside our world. An enjoyable read for certain.

(There is more on my review page. Beware of spoilery things - www.paulkater.com/2017/03/book-review-miss-peregrines-home-for-remarkable-children/)

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

I guess I was between a 3 and a 4 for this really, in the end I plumped for the 3 because the story was a little predictable.

An enjoyable little story where magic is real but hidden. Starts off in america but is mostly set in a fictional village on an island in wales called "Cairnholm". There's a little, [b:Tom's Midnight Garden|543086|Tom's Midnight Garden|Philippa Pearce|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348198004s/543086.jpg|530403] style, time travel, but it's not what I like to think of as time tourist like [b:Just One Damned Thing After Another|29661618|Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)|Jodi Taylor|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1459230212s/29661618.jpg|25626746].

The characters were rich and interesting. The scene setting was good but Chekhov kept leaving his gun everywhere. Starts promising to deal with tricky emotional things, but then sort of vears off and never challenges them, bit of a missed opportunity there really.

I would say I enjoyed this, and …

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

Ich würde gern endlich mal wieder ein Buch lesen, das so gut weitergeht, wie es anfängt. Die zweite Hälfte enthält viele Zusammenfassungen von Handlung. Musste es schnell gehen, stand der Abgabetermin vor der Tür? Verlangten Lektoren das nachträgliche Zuspachteln von Erklärungslücken?

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

I'd give this a firm 3 1/2 stars. If only GR didn't make us decide whether to round up or round down. 

Can a collection of odd old photographs tell an interesting story?‎ Evidently yes, it can. With a little help.
‎‎
‎When Jacob was young, his grandfather told him stories about his time on a magical island where he was sent to be protected from "the monsters." When Jacob was little, of course he devoured the stories. But when kids grow up and become men/women of the world around age eight, they naturally become cynics. Grandpa even showed him some old photographs from his time on the island - of some of his friends there - but to no avail. Until somewhere around age 16, when Jacob has to wonder if Grandpa might have been telling him the truth.

‎I love the plot, and a lot of the ideas …

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

Every five years, I have a year of no-book-buying, to give myself a chance to read the dozens of books that I own but haven't read. (This is inevitably thwarted by living in West Philadelphia, land of free books, and $1 books, which are essentially free, and locally-owned bookstores at which buying books is a philosophical act, really, so it should be allowed...Anyways,) this is one of those years. And this is one of those books that happened to be sitting around. I was excited to get back to my SF/F roots after a couple of years of heavy "literary fiction" reading, but unfortunately, this was not far enough removed from a life of SF/F reading to stand out.

Miss Peregrine's home is simply generic fantasy. Cliches can be nice if they're good renditions, but this isn't really. There is not a single memorable or unique element. It's fine. Nothing …

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

This is an interesting, dark but enjoyable book. If your kids have enjoyed but grown out of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate events, they may really enjoy this. If you (like me) enjoyed Snicket for the oddness of the books, this book can easily keep up with them. The peculiar photographs included in the book really add to the atmosphere of the story.

Review of 'Guai qi gu er yuan' on 'Goodreads'

Exact rating: 3.5 (This is a children's book. I still read those.)
Author Ransom Riggs's idea of using real, old time photos to enhance this fantasy was a great brain storm, and his characters are fairly interesting. The basic story is captivating, though there were a few things about the plot that didn't seem to work very smoothly. That was irksome, and it was my fault that I didn't know that this book was to have a sequel. In other words, it ends with a bit of a cliffhanger I wasn't expecting. How vexing! I'm not sure I'm interested enough to wait, and yet...

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