The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, first published in 1979. An English translation, by Ralph. The Neverending Story (ebook). Die unendliche Geschichte (Paperback). Michael Ende, รัตนา.

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This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published more than a decade ago. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. And now this modern classic and bibliophile's dream is available in hardcover again.

The story begins with a lonely boy na This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published more than a decade ago. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. And now this modern classic and bibliophile's dream is available in hardcover again. The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica.

Only a human can save this enchanted place-by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic-and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart. Readers, too, can travel to the wondrous, unforgettable world of Fantastica if they will just turn the page. One of my favorite books of all time; this one is definitely closest to my heart. I've certainly read it more than any other (Ender's Game being a close second).

Which is interesting because it's almost nothing like any of my other favorites (besides maybe Watership Down). Maybe it's because it's the first main character I was able to truly identify with. Or maybe because Bastian does what I had always dreamed of as a child, since the day I started reading: to enter inside a book, to turn my ima One of my favorite books of all time; this one is definitely closest to my heart. I've certainly read it more than any other (Ender's Game being a close second).

Which is interesting because it's almost nothing like any of my other favorites (besides maybe Watership Down). Maybe it's because it's the first main character I was able to truly identify with. Or maybe because Bastian does what I had always dreamed of as a child, since the day I started reading: to enter inside a book, to turn my imagination into reality.

And what is this book if not the most beautiful ode to imagination and story telling? The first time I read this I was probably about 11 or 12 and it was after seeing The Neverending Story II in the theater. Till that moment I had never known The Neverending Story was a book, and just happened to notice this in the credits. Thank god I did. The fact that it led me to the book is probably the only redeeming factor of that film.

I read the book all in one day, from morning till night, with nothing but the same lunch Bastian packed for himself in the movie (I may have cheated later on at night. It's tough when you're not actually hiding in the attic of your school, but lounging on your bed). And I've probably read it at least once a year since then. Even as an adult (am I really one of those now???), I still love being transported to this world, and I think it's a testament to the power of this book that it can still take me there. From Atreyu's quest to Bastian coming to fantastica, to their travels and adventures and Bastian's eventual journey home, I'm with them the whole way. A secret part of me still hopes that the Childlike Empress will appear before me, and that I can join Bastian and Atreyu for real in fantastica.

Till then, the book and my imagination will have to do. For anyone who loves reading through and through, and who still has that sense of childhood wonder inside of them, please read this book. Read this to my daughter recently.

A very mixed bag. First off I should say that although the book was written in 1979 it reads as though it were written in 1939. The translator has consistently reached for the most complicated/high falutin' word available and as a result the child's book ends up unreadable/incomprehensible to many modern kids. I'm not one for dumbing down, but this goes the other way pointlessly.

I saw the film around the time it came out years ago. The book seems to reach the en Read this to my daughter recently. A very mixed bag.

First off I should say that although the book was written in 1979 it reads as though it were written in 1939. The translator has consistently reached for the most complicated/high falutin' word available and as a result the child's book ends up unreadable/incomprehensible to many modern kids. I'm not one for dumbing down, but this goes the other way pointlessly. I saw the film around the time it came out years ago. The book seems to reach the end of the film by about half way through. That first half is cleverly done with a good idea about binding the reader and the adventure together in a 'meta' way that works out really well. The pacing is ok, the imagination great - chaotic, but good.

For me Ende should have stopped there and wrapped it up. The second half of the book feels. Never ending. It's a slow, overdone, meander through a fairly arbitrary world and the 8 year old I was reading it to (we finished the book on her 9th birthday) was, like me, less than gripped.

We soldiered on. Eventually the massively drawn out moral lesson / reconstruction of our hero's personality completes and the final scenes of reunion are quite touching and uplifting. So the first half was a 4. for me, the second half a 2. I loved most of what I read, yet I’m stopping on page 352; I just can’t continue. And you know, I’m not entirely sure why I can’t continue -– I just know that I can’t.

But I have a theory. Having loved the movie version of this in my youth, the whole story is etched into the part of my psyche that deals with childhood; that time when so much is new; where much in the world is observed through an inner-wonder of the mind and a stirring of the soul: a magical state, by adult standards. Freud may ha I loved most of what I read, yet I’m stopping on page 352; I just can’t continue. And you know, I’m not entirely sure why I can’t continue -– I just know that I can’t. But I have a theory. Having loved the movie version of this in my youth, the whole story is etched into the part of my psyche that deals with childhood; that time when so much is new; where much in the world is observed through an inner-wonder of the mind and a stirring of the soul: a magical state, by adult standards. Freud may have been a kook with some of his beliefs, but psychologists today with all their studies and time-tested proofs, and technology measuring brainwaves, chemicals, etc, now heavily emphasize the impact our childhood has on our adult self.

And “self” is everything. Much of what I read captured me, putting me in a state in which I was accessing stirred-up feelings through a strange inner memory that I’m incapable of generating even partly on my own, without help, as an adult. The inability to directly replicate the magical feelings that used to be a normal part of our existence as children, yet somehow being aware of them in some odd way now is, in part, I think, why our childhood has the power to affect us so greatly. Even though past thought-processes can’t be fully realized, our greater psyche has a keen memory of them - it knows exactly what once existed. And sometimes we can reinvigorate hints of what we felt during parts of youth through songs, pictures, books, and movies; and if it’s something that was specifically wonderful to us as children, all the more magical and powerful our hint of feeling now will be, if triggered properly. I hadn’t seen the movie in many years; not since youth, in fact. So reading this swept me into that childlike place of consciousness where everything is awash in wonder.

Each piece of familiarity was somewhat cognizant, yes; I knew I had experienced these scenes before through the movie; but the feelings they evoked were wonderfully vague and surreal; awakening, reminding some part of my inner-self how the world seemed when newness and innocence ruled the day; an encompassing sense of past magic. The movie version is completed at the book’s halfway point, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise that that was when my captivation vanished. The book is very well written, and fantasy fans are sure to completely dig it; it’s a smart, engaging book with important themes. But its strong pull left me, and I was unable to continue in the same state of enthrallment and wonderment. Just like now, as an adult, I can never truly feel like a complete child again. I can only hope to get dashes of that former self, and can only do so in rare circumstances.

But when I am gifted such magic, I will gladly take it and realize it for the priceless treasure that it surely is. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, The Nothing is devouring Fantastica bit by bit and The Childlike Empress tasks Atreyu with stopping it. Meanwhile, holed up in his school's attic, Bastian Balthazar Bux reads a purlorned book and soon finds himself pulled into. The Neverending Story! Not too long ago, I bought my wife tickets to see the rerelease of The Dark Crystal in the theater and we got to talking about fantasy movies from the 1980s, which lead to rewatching The Neverending Story. Days after that, I found this book in the The Nothing is devouring Fantastica bit by bit and The Childlike Empress tasks Atreyu with stopping it.

Meanwhile, holed up in his school's attic, Bastian Balthazar Bux reads a purlorned book and soon finds himself pulled into. The Neverending Story! Not too long ago, I bought my wife tickets to see the rerelease of The Dark Crystal in the theater and we got to talking about fantasy movies from the 1980s, which lead to rewatching The Neverending Story. Days after that, I found this book in the used bookstore I always go to and decided to give it a read. If you've ever seen the movie, the first 45% of the book is 99% of the movie, with the standard book to movie tweaks, expunged parts, etc. Fantastica was changed to Fantastia for the movie.

Some of the creatures look different. Atreyu is green, Falkor looks more like a lion than a dog, and so on. Entire scenes are omitted and dialogue is shuffled around to other characters to make up the difference.

I kept telling my wife 'Most of the movie has happened. What the hell is going to be in the second half?' Well, the ending of the movie provides the hint.

Once Bastian saves Fantastica, it's his responsibility to help rebuild it. Shit starts sliding downhill immediately after. Without going into it too much, absolute power corrupts absolutely and Bastian does what a lot of insecure people would do with godlike powers: abuses the shit out of it and becomes a raging dickhead. We all should have seen it coming. He stole a book in the first chapter!

He goes from being a relateable bookworm to an A-1 shitheel. After a bloody battle at the Ivory Tower, I wondered if Bastian could ever be redeemed. Sure enough, he could. The last 80 pages were about Bastian seeing the error of his ways and using what little wishes he had left to leave Fantastica and generally grow the fuck up.

The reunion with his father was pretty sweet and his conversation with Coreander puts a bow on everything. Now that I've had time to digest thing, the book seems to partly be about coping with loss. Bastian and his father coping with his mother's death, and later, Bastian coping with losing everything the Childlike Empress gave him. It's also about taking responsibility for your actions and not being a chickenshit all the time. Bastian Balthazar Bux at the end of the book is almost totally different from the one at the beginning.

I wound up enjoying the book quite a bit but, like Falkor's depiction, the movie and the book are totally different animals. The movie captured the adventurous bits without all the morals in the second half.

Michael Ende definitely crafted something special here. I wonder how much was lost in translation, though. I had my doubts about the second half but it was all worth it in the end, if a little sappy.

Four out of five stars. Like many people of my generation, I loved the film adaptation (the first, not the second, thank you) and never realized that it had come from a book until a number of years later. In fact, I read it the first time in '07 and not only was I delighted at how imaginative it was, I was flabbergasted (joyfully so) that it lived up to its name.

It's quick reading, by any standard, but so deliciously dense in imagery, mythology, and an engrossing plot that I swore that if I had any children, this would Like many people of my generation, I loved the film adaptation (the first, not the second, thank you) and never realized that it had come from a book until a number of years later. In fact, I read it the first time in '07 and not only was I delighted at how imaginative it was, I was flabbergasted (joyfully so) that it lived up to its name. It's quick reading, by any standard, but so deliciously dense in imagery, mythology, and an engrossing plot that I swore that if I had any children, this would be a staple of their diet. Now that I have a little girl, I'm just too anxious to start reading it to her. I really can't sit still.

I keep picking up the book and going, 'Is she old enough, yet? Then I set down the book and tear out my metaphorical hair and let out a forlorn cry. Then I get a fantastic idea: I could just read it again, for myself! Then everything is right with the world again and I'm able to write a new review.

This is easily one of my favorite tales, ever. An extra goodie: April had a great review that forced me to think and respond in (I hope) a comprehensible way. Check it out.

The Neverending Story By Michael Ende A Review by Eric Allen. 'ONLY TWO STARS,' you cry, 'Eric, have you no soul!?!?!'

You're obviously going by the movie, which is AWESOME, and have never actually read the book it was based on, which is not so much. When I was six or seven, the Neverending Story came out, and it was one of the most awesome movies I had ever seen in my life. It was a movie that wasn't afraid to scare the everliving shit out of children, and I loved it for that. Even today, many, ma The Neverending Story By Michael Ende A Review by Eric Allen.

'ONLY TWO STARS,' you cry, 'Eric, have you no soul!?!?!' You're obviously going by the movie, which is AWESOME, and have never actually read the book it was based on, which is not so much. When I was six or seven, the Neverending Story came out, and it was one of the most awesome movies I had ever seen in my life. It was a movie that wasn't afraid to scare the everliving shit out of children, and I loved it for that. Even today, many, many years later, it is still an old favorite that I remember fondly and hope, one day, to scare the everliving shit out of my own children with. The book, on the other hand, is something of a mess.

First of all, many people were not aware that it even existed. Fewer people still realize that the extremely terrible Neverending Story II movie was actually part of the book. That's right, the same author that gave you The Neverending Story, ALSO gave you The Neverending Story II. Think on that for a minute and tell me your childhood isn't curled up in a little ball in the closet crying. The book was originally written in German, brought to you on the screen by a German director and crew, and only after the movie was so popular did the book get translated into a few more languages. The plot of The Neverending Story needs no summarizing for most people.

It's a very basic telling of the hero's journey story archetype. What makes it so awesome and memorable, of course, is the world in which it takes place, and the fact that the villain was something more abstract than an actual, tangible foe that can be fought and defeated. The second half of the book focuses on the child Bastion, who is pulled into the book after giving the Childlike Empress her new name, which, by the way, people have been asking for years, because that kid is completely unintelligible in the movie. Her name is Moon Child.

However, I believe that, for whatever reason, the name was translated literally, rather than left in the original German. Bastion must make his way back to the real world by making wishes, but for each wish he makes, he loses precious memories from his life. And it is only through the help of his friends Atreiyu and Falkor that he is able to return at all. The first half of the book is excellent.

I absolutely love it. The movie stays extremely faithful to the source material. The world is imaginative, the hero is a bit of a blank slate, but likeable all the same, and a lot of the things that he goes through on his quest serve a dual purpose, to both be entertaining, and thought provoking. The use of an abstract concept, the Nothing, as the villain is where I think this part of the book really shines. It's very hard to give a concept weight as a character, but the author did an extraordinary job of bringing it, and all of the horror surrounding it, to life. Where this book really falls apart is in the second half.

You remember how excited you were to see Neverending Story II when it came out? I know I was. And boy was I disappointed. Well, the second half of the book is pretty much the same. They changed the story drastically to make it easier to make a movie out of it, because there really isn't much in the way of purpose or direction in it. There isn't a real goal, or reason for anything to be happening. Bastion just wanders around, makes wishes, and pretty much accidentally finds his way home again.

This boring stretch of nothing happening is compounded by two things. The first is that the first half of the book is so clever, and awesome, and enjoyable, and when you get to the second half it's like running headlong into a brick wall. All of the awesome world, the awesome supporting characters, and even the hero of the story are simply gone, and you're left with only Bastion. And that leads in to the second thing.

Bastion is an extraordinarily unlikeable character. It's hard to describe all of the things that make him unlikeable, because pretty much EVERYTHING about his character is annoying or offensive in some way.

And after Atreiyu, who is not exactly the most interesting character, true, but a hell of a lot more likeable than Bastion, you feel the contrast all the more. When you actively dislike the person that a story is all about, the story itself is not enjoyable.

What creates such things as tension, and drama, are emotional attachments to the characters. If you don't like the character, and don't care whether he succeeds or not, any story woven around him is, inevitably going to be terrible as well. And that is exactly what is wrong with the second half of the book. Bastion is so unlikeable as a character, that I just couldn't have cared less what he was doing, or why, and I certainly didn't care if he was going to succeed or not. You go from a relatively enjoyable protagonist in the first half, to someone who literally has not one single redeeming quality in him as the protagonist in the second half.

The fact that there is no readily defined plot for him to participate in makes it even worse, because when there is no real storyline, all of the entertainment value in a story rests wholly upon the characters. The second half of this book is about a terrible, unlikeable character, doing basically nothing but wandering around the world and showing how terrible and unlikeable a character he is. Additionally, this book is not very well written. I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt and say that it's probably the translator being unable to convey the original German wording properly into English, and all of the little nuances of prose that make a well written book were lost in translation. But there is probably one thing that was definitely in the original German.

The author keeps bringing up what sounds like a really awesome tangent to the story, and then saying, 'But that's a different story and will not be spoken of here.' WHY EVEN BRING IT UP IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Oh my GOD is this annoying.

He literally does it like forty times over the course of the book. It was cute once or twice, but it just gets more and more annoying with every time it happens. In conclusion, though The Neverending Story movie will always have a special place in my heart, the book it was based on is better left forgotten. I believe that a lot was lost in translation, when this book was adapted to English, but that can only account for so much. The first half of the book is very enjoyable, with a few odd quirks of writing that I found to be annoying, most of which probably resulted from English not being the original language that the book was written in. The second half of the book is terrible, following a thoroughly unlikeable character as he does absolutely nothing but display what an arrogant douchebag that he is for all the world to see.

I do not recommend picking this book up, unfortunately. And if you do, I highly recommend that you only read the first half. The bad more than outweighs the good. Stick to the movie, and remember all the great times you had with it as a child. It's one of the few rare cases of the movie actually being better than the book.

The movie, at least, knew exactly when to shut up, come to a conclusion, and wrap things up with a tidy little bow. I wish I could say the same for the book, but I can't. It gets two stars, which is probably one more than it deserves, but hey, nostalgia is a powerful thing. This is one of the best books I have read when I was a kid. I have read it multiple times and I was extremely disappointed with the movie adaptation. I truly believe that this story has inspired me and made me love Fantacy books so much later on as an adult.

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(If my remember correctly my godfather gave it to me as a Christmas present together with 'Comet in Moominland' by Tove Jansson. The best combination!) Although it is more than 25 years since I last read it, I still remember scenes of the story This is one of the best books I have read when I was a kid. I have read it multiple times and I was extremely disappointed with the movie adaptation.

I truly believe that this story has inspired me and made me love Fantacy books so much later on as an adult. (If my remember correctly my godfather gave it to me as a Christmas present together with 'Comet in Moominland' by Tove Jansson. The best combination!) Although it is more than 25 years since I last read it, I still remember scenes of the story, dialogues, lonely Bastian, Arteiyu and Fantastica. Of course when I read it for first time, it was the Greek translation of the book. Now I have a daughter who is six years old and she loves fairytales, dragons, princesses and magic. She also adores stories that they never end. When they eventually do end, she finds ways to postpone the ending and to expand the story.

She has a vivid imagination this kid:) So it is Christmas holidays, school holidays and this is the perfect opportunity to start a neverending story with her(in english this time). No school tomorrow. No need to sleep early. And so far she cannot have enough!.All Time Favorite Book. As another reviewer so rightly pointed out: This is a book lover's dream, a book that never ends. Like I always say, a picture is worth 1000 words, but a mental picture is worth 1000 times more.

Words cannot ever capture what's in a picture, there's always something more, and yet pictures themselves never quite capture something as well as the imagination. People always say that movie version of the book is never as good as the book was, and the reason is that the i.All Time Favorite Book. As another reviewer so rightly pointed out: This is a book lover's dream, a book that never ends. Like I always say, a picture is worth 1000 words, but a mental picture is worth 1000 times more. Words cannot ever capture what's in a picture, there's always something more, and yet pictures themselves never quite capture something as well as the imagination. People always say that movie version of the book is never as good as the book was, and the reason is that the imagination's picture is infinitely more living.

Endlessly more powerful. And this is what is so wonderful about this book: Ende uses a subtle technique that encourages the reader to really try and imagine everything as vividly as they can. So often, we just read words and don't transform them into pictures.

And Ende doesn't disappoint: If we do the work, he gives us a very rich world to run around in (And, masterfully, this is actually the plot of the book.) This book is at the top of my list because I now consider it a fundamental book on how to read books: it schools the imagination. Afterwards, you'll never read another book in the same way again. Here on out, books teem with new life.

Themes are more thundering, characters begin breathing, and a grand evolution occurs: words become worlds. My children are currently listening to a never-ending audiobook of this all time children's favourite of mine, and I find myself secretly spying on them, listening to bits and pieces of the story, always knowing exactly where they are at the moment, after so many rereads! I still dream of finding a bookstore like the one where Bastian Balthasar Bux found 'The Neverending Story'. I don't think I ever pass an antique shop without thinking of this book for at least a fraction of a second, it is so d My children are currently listening to a never-ending audiobook of this all time children's favourite of mine, and I find myself secretly spying on them, listening to bits and pieces of the story, always knowing exactly where they are at the moment, after so many rereads! I still dream of finding a bookstore like the one where Bastian Balthasar Bux found 'The Neverending Story'. I don't think I ever pass an antique shop without thinking of this book for at least a fraction of a second, it is so deeply engraved in my heart and mind.

Who has never dreamt of being a castaway in the school attic, with some food, some light, and a book that -literally - soaks you in? I still hear the loud cry when Bastian thinks he sees himself in the mirror that Atreju stares into. And I still hear him yell the name of the Empress: 'Mondenkind', in German, probably Moonchild in English, in order to save that beautiful fantasy world from the big, dark nothing that is eating it as a result of children losing interest in storytelling. I read the book in German as a child and saw the movie later - and I was always annoyed by the fact that it ends halfway through! Bastian's adventures and his slow path to wisdom haven't even started yet at the end of the movie.

Therefore I read it aloud to my children before letting them watch the movie, and I discovered so many layers in it that had escaped me as a child, and I enjoyed it even more. Especially Bastian's interpretation of the Auryn inscription ('Tu was du willst', in German - 'Do what you want to do') has been helpful to me ever since. Bastian painfully learns the hard way that it is not about spontaneously following your own whims, but about reflecting on what your true wishes are. That makes total sense to me, and I try to consult my invisible Auryn medallion whenever I have to make important decisions! Now that my children are embarking on their second reading (hearing) of the story, they start talking about how the plot changes in their minds as they develop a more mature taste in literature. I find that incredibly valuable, and here I am myself, revisiting this childhood love again, and finding pleasure in writing about it.

Apart from Astrid Lindgren, Michael Ende must be my favourite children's book author, and I like him just as much now as when I was little and dreamt of being locked into the school attic with a book that never ends and that has a place for me and the stories I want to tell myself! Bastian Balthazar Bux is a shy, awkward, and plump little boy who is tired of being bullied in school. One blustery stormy day Bastien goes inside of an antique bookstore and discovered a mysterious book called the Neverending Story. When the bookshop owner Mr. Coreander is not looking, Bastien steals the book and hides in the attic of his school to read it. It is only when he begins to read the Neverending Story that his adventure truly begins. What happens next?

Read the book for yourself and Bastian Balthazar Bux is a shy, awkward, and plump little boy who is tired of being bullied in school. One blustery stormy day Bastien goes inside of an antique bookstore and discovered a mysterious book called the Neverending Story.

When the bookshop owner Mr. Coreander is not looking, Bastien steals the book and hides in the attic of his school to read it. It is only when he begins to read the Neverending Story that his adventure truly begins. What happens next?

Read the book for yourself and find out. I have seen this film when I was younger, but this was my first time reading the actual book. It is a very whimsical, enchanting adventure that flips between the adventure of the book and what the main character Bastien (how he reacts) as he is reading the book. I actually enjoyed reading this book. I wholeheartedly recommend reading the book first before viewing the Warner Brothers film as the film adaptation is only the first half of this book and you need to read the book to get the whole story. This is one of my favorite books I have read for 2016 and it was a magical adventure! Be sure to look for this book in either book or audiobook format at your local library and wherever books are sold.

Perhaps the reason I just did not love this book is that I was absolutely in love with the movie when I was young. I love the idea of a reader being taken to the land of the book he's reading. For me, the first 1/3 of this book was wonderful, just what I fondly remembered from my beloved movie version - and actually, a bit more fleshed out.

The movie makes a bit more sense having read the book. However, I couldn't believe when I got to the end of what I knew of the story that I still had about 2 Perhaps the reason I just did not love this book is that I was absolutely in love with the movie when I was young. I love the idea of a reader being taken to the land of the book he's reading.

For me, the first 1/3 of this book was wonderful, just what I fondly remembered from my beloved movie version - and actually, a bit more fleshed out. The movie makes a bit more sense having read the book. However, I couldn't believe when I got to the end of what I knew of the story that I still had about 200 pages left in the book. I felt this 'second' half, of Bastian being in Fantastica and finding his way back out, was creative but too much: too long, too many characters, too much plot to get to the author's point. It may have just been the fact that it was translated from German, but I found the text rather, for lack of a better word, 'cheesy.' For such a sophisticated 'point' (that you can't really be who you are until you know how to love others) I felt like the writing was a bit juvenile, but again, I'm just going to chalk that up to translation - I'm sure it was different in German.

I won't give the book to the thrift store though. That familiar bit of story is just as good now as it was then - and the end, when Bastian finds that happiness lies in loving others, is a great point, after all.

Well, this is an 'out-there' book, so I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone, but. I can't figure out how I got to 33yo and never read this book!

I just read it with my daughters and we absolutely loved it. It's a fantastic romp filled with lessons that every child can benefit from: the nature of individuality and wish-fullment, how wishing is impossible without personal change, how personal glorification is empty, the nature of fantasy vs. How fantasy can be turned into lies by t Well, this is an 'out-there' book, so I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone, but. I can't figure out how I got to 33yo and never read this book!

I just read it with my daughters and we absolutely loved it. It's a fantastic romp filled with lessons that every child can benefit from: the nature of individuality and wish-fullment, how wishing is impossible without personal change, how personal glorification is empty, the nature of fantasy vs. How fantasy can be turned into lies by those that would deny the importance of an even balance between imagination and reality, how those lies are easily manipulated.yeah, this book has much to ponder, in fact, I think I need to read it again. The girls and I had many conversations about symbolism and it's use in literature. This author does much with the use of cycles and their natural progression in all life. Everything renews, everything follows its natural course.

This novel is incredibly imaginative. It is never predictable, and constantly surprised me with its insightfulness. I will be thinking of many aspects presented within its pages for years to come.and I know my daughters will as well. I must have read this at least 10 times as a child. I still consider it to be one of the great works of 'children's' literature - it should be ranked with Alice in Wonderland and similar masterpieces. It is profoundly moving as a work dealing with grief and loss, memory and creativity should be. It is meta fictional in a way which, for me, no other book has ever approached - I will never forget being 10 years old and reading as Bastian and the Princess turn and look at me reading them.I felt m I must have read this at least 10 times as a child.

I still consider it to be one of the great works of 'children's' literature - it should be ranked with Alice in Wonderland and similar masterpieces. It is profoundly moving as a work dealing with grief and loss, memory and creativity should be. It is meta fictional in a way which, for me, no other book has ever approached - I will never forget being 10 years old and reading as Bastian and the Princess turn and look at me reading them.I felt my stomach drop with such power I can still remember where I was, I can still see the room I lay in Wales on a winter holiday as it rained and sleeted outside. I think the mediocre film has done great harm to the way this book is perceived.

I can't wait for when my son is old enough to read it, and I get to share it with him. Final rating: 5/5 stars “Every real story is a never ending story.” This review will be hard to write because I read the translation of this on my language, and my language tends to write names as how they would have sounded as spoken. So I have no idea how to write the names but I think i'll stuck with original names (on German). This book is a classic of literature - and Michael Ende, German author, did fantastic job with it.

It became popular when it came out, and became even more popular Final rating: 5/5 stars “Every real story is a never ending story.” This review will be hard to write because I read the translation of this on my language, and my language tends to write names as how they would have sounded as spoken. So I have no idea how to write the names but I think i'll stuck with original names (on German).

This book is a classic of literature - and Michael Ende, German author, did fantastic job with it. It became popular when it came out, and became even more popular after the.

I have watched that movie thousand times (actually, probably 11). Everytime it was on TV I watched it. And with my obsession with the movie, I bought the book as soon as I saw it.

And I am honestly surprised at how much the movie deviated the book. Only half of the story was adapted and it was not so faithful to the original material, which is GREAT (the book is great I mean). And I cried because I couldn't find the book on my language. Luckily, the just release a new edition with wonderful cover and I'm now owner of this beautiful edition: “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” I felt joy, sadness, my heart hurt so damn much for what the characters had to go through, and it hits harder when you notice the character's beginning of the change and it hurts because the character is losing himself, and the other one is desperately trying to save him. This book is just beautiful.

A story of accepting that sometimes being who you are is what you need the most. You don't need to be beautiful, strong, fearless for someone to love you for who you are. It's an important lesson. I used to be overweight, and I thought no one would look at me twice and say 'I want to go out with you'. But, the more confident I felt, and the more I started caring about myself, I found out that as long as I felt confident and brave to go out with the friends of the friends, I noticed how much it helps - being yourself is important, but nothing will happen if you don't care about yourself.

This is also a crisis main character, Bastian, needs to find out for himself. I was bullied in school for being overly emotional, and I got over it too.

Bastian needs to learn that looks aren't important and that confidence comes as long as you believe in yourself. (And then I found out on time I had insulin resistance the whole time, which made so many problems for me.

And now, I'm so damn happy because I'm glad I checked it out on time. And all my problems were solved with medicine. But that is another story and shall be told another time.) “You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.” And, the quote above, is the way I felt in my whole life. I wish for something, and when I find out it's possible, I want to run away. But I hold my ground and just. This is a story about a fantasy world, a world filled with wonders, wishes, imagination and.

Because fantasy is what we believe is a lie. Fantasy is only imagination, and unlike sci-fi, will most likely NEVER, ever happen. But it's okay to imagine. It's wonderful to be creative, to think of new worlds, new species, new sorts of magic. It's what I love about fantasy.

► STORY: Bastian is a 10 year old boy whose mother died and ever since then, his father and he had been estranged. Feeling alone, neglected and down for always managing to disappoint his father, Bastian escapes in his own imagination. Bullied for his weight, his spacing out, his imagination, it gets him even more depressed. And the imagination and books are the only safe harbor he has. One day he entered the tiny antique bookstore, trying to escape the bullies.

After conversation with enigmatic shop manager, Koreander, he saw the mysterious book Koreander was reading - Neverending Story. And in spur of the moment, he decides to 'borrow' it without asking and read it, hidden in the school atic, alone.

Bastian then reads of world Fantasia which is being destroyed by THE NOTHING, a force which destroys everything on it's path. The Childlike Empress sends a hero on a quest to find a savior in form of a human child from a human world. And the hero chosen is no older than Bastian himself - Atreju, an orphan boy who is adopted by his whole tribe, called son of everyone, is sent to find the mysterious savior and the way to cure the Empress who is slowly dying because of the NOTHING. At the same time, a werewolf is hunting down Atreju. But the more Bastian reads, the more he finds out that this book is not an ordinary book. After all, the coincidences that happen while he is reading cannot be possible.

Not unless Fantasia really exists, and the book is the portal to their world. ► CHARACTERS: ◈ Bastian is a little, overweight boy who is extremely shy and very frail bookworm, uncertain in himself. Usually teased at school by his own teachers, by his classmates, and feeling like a burden to his own father, because they no longer talk so much after the death of his mother, he finds only his own imagination and imagination of writers as a comfort. Most of all, he wishes to be strong, powerful, handsome, wise, smart and certain of himself. ◈ Atreju/Atreyu is everything Bastian isn't - Atreju is his complete alter ego and everything Bastian strives to be. Like and unlike Bastian, Atreju is an orphan who lost his both parents after the buffalo killed them.

But Atreju had something Bastian didn't - full support of people around him, even being named Atreju, meaning, son of all. While Bastien is indecisive, timid, fragile and shy, Atreju is confident, determined and he doesn't hesitate. He recognize the importance of the mission his Empress gives him and he never falters, even when the quest he is sent to is able to break even the strongest souls alive. Loss, wounds, fear. It all happens to Atreju but he struggles so hard to never give up, even when it hurts him so much he could just fall down and just not wake up.

This boy is stronger in soul than anyone, but his soul is put to test with ever struggle he faces. It broke my heart to read all the hardships he was faced with and how he managed to deal with it. Atreju is very kind and very honorable, despite being so young. Bastian tries to imitate him through the book. No one knew better than Bastian what that meant. Even though his father was still alive and Atreyu had neither father nor mother. To make up for it, Atreyu had been brought up by all the men and women together and was the “son of all”, while Bastian had no one—and was really “nobody’s son”.

All the same, Bastian was glad to have this much in common with Atreyu, because otherwise he resembled him hardly at all, neither physically nor in courage and determination. Yet Bastian, too, was engaged in a Great Quest and didn’t know where it would lead him or how it would end. ◈ Fuchur/Falkor is the luck dragon, a being who is as honorable as it can be - which is a lot.

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He always helps, believes in others and does what is right. He developed beautiful friendship with Atreju, who saved him from death, and is faithful to him and would do anything for him as well. And so on and on. There are many characters in this book, but I have covered the three most important ones. ► OVERALL: Wonderful and unforgettful book. Like I have never forgotten the movie, the book will stay in my memories forever (But i'll regularly repeat reading because Atreju is so damn worth it. The cutest green-color-skinned-hunter-kid with a long braid).

I'll never forget him nor the world of Phantasien (Fantastica, Fantasia, whatever they translated it). For those who watched 1984 movie, it deviates from the book a lot, the movie is just short version of the first half of the book, with a somewhat original ending.

If you pick it up because of the movie, you won't regret it. The world is beautiful, the idea is wonderful and captivating and so well done. And the messages are worth it. And this book has wonderful, rich and vivid world full of unique creatures, plants, sceneries, mythologies. OTHER IMPORTANT INFO: ⚠ Standalone: Yes.

⚠ Point of View: Third POV, multiply characters. ⚠ Cliffhanger: No. ⚠ Triggers: None. ⚠ Love triangle: No, it's not love story of that kind at all.

⚠ Angst: A bit. ⚠ Supernatural: Yes. ⚠ Explicit content: No. ⚠ Ending type: HEA ⚠ Recommended: YES, with all my heart.

Contents. Plot summary The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, a small and strange child who is neglected by his father after the death of Bastian's mother. While escaping from some, Bastian bursts into the antique book store of Carl Conrad Coreander, where he finds his interest held by a book called The Neverending Story. Unable to resist, he steals the book and hides in his school's attic, where he begins to read.

The story Bastian reads is set in the magical land of Fantastica, an unrealistic place of wonder ruled by the benevolent and mysterious Childlike Empress. A great delegation has come to the Empress to seek her help against a formless entity called 'The Nothing'. The delegates are shocked when the Empress's physician, a named Cairon, informs them that the Empress is dying, and has summoned a boy warrior named Atreyu, to find a cure. To Atreyu, the Empress gives AURYN: a powerful that protects him from all harm. At the advice of the giant, Morla the Aged One, Atreyu sets off in search of an invisible known as Uyulala, who may know the Empress's cure. In reaching her, he is aided by a luckdragon named Falkor, whom he rescues from the monster 'Ygramul the Many'.

By Uyulala, he is told the only thing that can save the Empress is a new name given to her by a human child, who can only be found beyond Fantastica's borders. As Falkor and Atreyu search for the borders of Fantastica, Atreyu is flung from Falkor's back in a confrontation with the four Wind Giants and loses AURYN in the. Atreyu lands in the ruins of Spook City, the home of various wicked creatures. Injured by the fall and stranded in the dangerous city, Atreyu finds the Gmork, chained and near death, who tells him that all the residents of the city have leapt voluntarily into The Nothing. There, thanks to the irresistible pull of the destructive phenomenon, they have become lies and in the human world. The wolf also reveals that he is a servant of The Nothing who wishes to prevent the Empress's chosen hero from saving her.

Gmork then reveals that when the princess of the city discovered his against the Empress, she imprisoned him and left him to starve to death. When Atreyu announces that he is the hero Gmork has sought, the wolf laughs and succumbs to death. However, upon being approached, Gmork's body instinctively seizes Atreyu's in his. Meanwhile, Falkor retrieves AURYN from the sea and arrives in time to save Atreyu from the rapid approach of The Nothing. Falkor and Atreyu go to the Childlike Empress, who assures them they have brought her rescuer to her; Bastian suspects that the Empress means him, but cannot bring himself to believe it. When Bastian refuses to speak the new name, to prompt him into fulfilling his role as savior, the Empress herself locates the Old Man of Wandering Mountain, who possesses a book also entitled The Neverending Story, which the Empress demands he read aloud. As he begins, Bastian is amazed to find the book he is reading is repeating itself, beginning once again whenever the Empress reaches the Old Man—only this time, the story includes Bastian's meeting with Coreander, his theft of the book, and all his actions in the attic.

Realizing that the story will repeat itself forever without his intervention, Bastian names the Empress 'Moon Child', and appears with her in Fantastica, where he restores its existence through his own imagination. The Empress has also given him AURYN, on the back of which he finds the inscription 'DO WHAT YOU WANT'. For each wish, Bastian loses a memory of his life as a human, and some of his ability to leave Fantastica. Unaware of this at first, Bastian goes through Fantastica, having adventures and telling stories, while losing his memories.

In spite of the warnings of Atreyu and Bastian's other friends, Bastian uses AURYN to create creatures and dangers for himself to conquer, which causes some negative side effects for the rest of Fantastica. After encountering the wicked sorceress Xayide, with the mysterious absence of the Childlike Empress Bastian decides to take over Fantastica for himself, but is stopped by Atreyu, whom Bastian grievously wounds in battle. Ultimately, a repentant Bastian is reduced to two memories: those of his mother and father, and of his own name.

After more adventures, Bastian must give up the memory of his parents to discover that his strongest wish is to be capable of love and give love to others (namely his own father). After much searching, and on the verge of losing his final memory, Bastian is unable to find the Water of Life with which to leave Fantastica with his memories. Here, he is found by Atreyu. In remorse, Bastian lays down AURYN at his friend's feet, and Atreyu and Falkor enter AURYN with him, where the Water of Life demands to know Bastian's name, and if Bastian has finished all the stories he began in his journey, which he has not.

Only after Atreyu gives Bastian's name and promises to complete all the stories for him does the Water of Life allow Bastian to return to the human world, along with some of the mystical waters. He returns to his father, where he tells the full tale of his adventures, and thus reconciles with him. Afterwards, Bastian confesses to Coreander about stealing his book and losing it, but Coreander denies ever owning such a book. Coreander reveals he has also been to Fantastica, and that the book has likely moved into the hands of someone else. This, the book concludes, 'is another story and shall be told another time'. Characters.

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