Mateo Arbelaez Pati Arbelaez Pati itibaren Cabrach, Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute PA60, UK
This book felt like Salman's version of The Phantom Tollbooth The Phantom Tollbooth. Haroun's father, Rashid, is touted as the greatest story teller in all of India, until his mother runs off with their next door neighbor, a sniveling clerk who asks, "what is the point of stories if they aren't even true." Soon after, when his father steps on stage at a political rally to tell stories in support of a candidate, his story well dries up and for the first time in his life, Rashid can not speak. With his father's reputation, and possibly their lives, at stake, Haroun undertakes a journey to find out where stories come from and to find out how to restore his father's power of gab. The story seemed overly simplistic at time but there are clever plays on words and puns sprinkled throughout the book. This is not a book to read for the plot. I did love one of the lines towards the end. Haroun tells one of his new friends that a happy ending in real life is impossible and his friend replies: "Most people would say that nearly everything you have experienced these past few days is impossible. Why take issue with this specific impossibility." All in all, it is a fun, quick read, not nearly as complicated as some of Salman's other works. It is a beautiful mental image of where the source of storytelling is located.
Jackson and Madelyn! Why do you hate this book!? It gives me such warm fuzzy feelings.
First in an enchanting sea-faring fantasy trilogy populated by engaging adolescents, tiny warriors, "woken" animals with the gift of speech and a cast of villains, magicians and heros.