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Cornelia Funke: Tintenherz
Aug. 29th, 2006 12:18 pmLong time no write, mainly because I really haven't read much in this time. For months, in between, I am captured by a book of crossword puzzles, of the better (FAZ) but not really good sort (like ZEIT and Stern). Given the time I have on the trains it takes ages to get through.
When I visited my parents beginning of the month, I started with Cornelia Funke's "Tintenherz" ("Inkheart"), given to my mother on her birthday once, according to her wish. The book store owner (I guess she was) praised it highly, saying it was so much better than that over-hyped Harry Potter stuff, so I was curious.
Well, the story is not so bad, but it draws just on one idea, and does it all have to be so "heavy", so serious, so grave? Some of the characters are nice, lifelike, not too stereotypical, but that doesn't apply to most, not even to most of the main characters, not to the father, the aunt, the author.
I did read it to the end, and I might try another one of Funke's again, but this one was disappointing after such a praise.
When I visited my parents beginning of the month, I started with Cornelia Funke's "Tintenherz" ("Inkheart"), given to my mother on her birthday once, according to her wish. The book store owner (I guess she was) praised it highly, saying it was so much better than that over-hyped Harry Potter stuff, so I was curious.
Well, the story is not so bad, but it draws just on one idea, and does it all have to be so "heavy", so serious, so grave? Some of the characters are nice, lifelike, not too stereotypical, but that doesn't apply to most, not even to most of the main characters, not to the father, the aunt, the author.
I did read it to the end, and I might try another one of Funke's again, but this one was disappointing after such a praise.
