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Let's just call it the adventures of Echo the Crat. Because that's what it is. Of course, that doesn't quite do the culinary genre justice, nor does the bargain to eat all he wants for the low, low price of being rendered into tallow for an evil old man quite do the stakes justice. That's merely the Leggi tutto

This is a wonderful amalgamation of Goeste's masterpiece, Faust, a Frankenstein-esque horror story and the typical elements of a master-and-student wizard duo. Echo is a Krätzchen, cat-like creature capable of speech and since his owner has died, he's starving in the streets of Sledwaya. Sledwaya is Leggi tutto

The English version can be found below. ----------- German Version: Ein kulinarisches Märchen nach meinem Geschmack! Das Märchen spielt an einem äußerst ungesunden Ort namens Sledwaya, an dem es „nach Äther und Eiter roch, nach Lebertran und Brechmittel, nach Jod und Tod“ (vgl. S. 9). Alles dreht sich Leggi tutto

I took this book on a recent trip, and it was the perfect vacation read. Eloquent talking cats, fantasy plants, evil villains who are also excellent chefs - well, there was almost no way I wouldn't like The Alchemaster's Apprentice . Walter Moers writes like a cheerful, erudite, and playful madman, a Leggi tutto

The back of this book has a review by the New York Times Book Review with the words "Cheerfully insane..." When I started this story I just didn't know if I could get into it. Walter Moers imagination is off the charts - it felt like I was being sat down and told a fairy tale with names being made up Leggi tutto

Another winner by Walter Moers! This book follows Echo the Crat (a cat that can speak all creature's languages) as he is saved from starvation by the Alchemaster, Ghoolion. Ghoolion's proposal is to treat Echo to the most amazing culinary treats in order to fatten him up to then, well end his life t Leggi tutto

"Oben ist unten und hässlich ist schön."