Rumo e i prodigi nell'oscurità

A Wolperting´s journey to find his true identity, many adventures, and some horrible surprises. Moers´puts loads of mythology and legends in this one, making the hero´s quest through different fantastical settings and switching between levels and styles of humor, from slapstick to some deeper ones an Leggi tutto

Moers may have become my favorite author. I picked this book up on a whim, off the sale table at Powell's, and it was stunning. I think it's a children's book, but it's the rare children's book that doesn't adjust the language to read at "a sixth-grade reading level" or sanitize any of the violence. Leggi tutto

Walter Moers hat die (seltene) Gabe, Bücher zu schreiben, die man gerne in regelmässigen Abständen wieder liest. Nicht, weil er so verwickelt schreibt, dass man mehrere Anläufe braucht, um die Gedanken zu verstehen, sondern schlicht, weil es spannend ist. Wer ein Wolf und ein Reh vereint, um die sag Leggi tutto

Rumo the wonder pup is named after a card game. If I had to choose a card game name for myself I would go with “Solitaire”. Not as catchy of course, but maybe going by a shortened version of the name instead might improve it a little. THEM: “How is the girl book cave treating you Solly?” ME: “Not a ca Leggi tutto

Oh war das toll. Ich habs natürlich geschafft die Bücher komplett achronologisch zu lesen, aber das tut dem Ganzen keinen Abbruch. Bemerkenswert finde ich nicht nur die Fülle an Sub-plots und Geschichten in Geschichten die alle letztlich von Bedeutung sind, sondern auch die Tatsache, dass die unauss Leggi tutto

The one of the great achievements of Rumo is that, despite being a book of epic proportions, never becomes a chore to read. There are many more to choose from: for example, the delightful illustrations by the author spaced throughout, the biazare flights of imagination, the varied and unique charact Leggi tutto