It is really hard for me to tell which is my favorite genre or book, I read a great range of books, if say only English literature, I read quite a bit of drama and fantasy. I think even I read drama a bit more, I’ll say my favorite genre is fantasy. Some of my favorites in this genre are ‘ The Changeover’ by Margaret Mahy, ‘The Never Ending Story’ by Michael Ende, ‘ The Stolen Child’ by Keith Donohue, ‘Ink heart’ by Cornelia Funke (Germen).
My favorite book in this genre is ‘ The Book of Lost Things’ by John Connolly. The setting is in England. There a boy, David, lost his dearest mother and his father decide to remarry. And following up with a new born brother, who takes all the attentions from his parents. David is jealous and lost. And at the point, he hears his mother’s voice from somewhere, and he follows the voice through a tree whole into the world of lost things to find his mother. On the journey, David slowly realize that his mother is not coming back.
The journey leads him to the king, where he discover the king is his uncle who had disappeared with his sister. A evil soul told him to sacrifice his sister and he would become the king, and he did so. So his sister’s heart is eaten by the evil soul and the king himself fell into regret. The book which is said to be magical turns out to be the king’s own diary. And now the soul needs a new life, it wants David to sacrifice his brother’s life. But David has seen what happened to the old king and he understood it has to ended.
At the end, he lives withstand the lost of the life and comes back to the lost world at the end of his life. ‘ For a man’s lifetime was but a moment in that place, and every man dreams his own heaven. And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.’ The great ending is the best of story.
John Connolly. The book of lost things. Taipei: Rye Field Publications,2007.
- Genre: Fantasy
- Source: Bookshop
- Rating: 5
- Read: Whole book
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