Book #12 - The Last Unicorn

[janetlin]

Wow, I'm reading way faster than I did last year. I may someday make it up to fifty books in a year after all. Just not this year...

This is another for Fantasy & Romance. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how little the cartoon movie deviated from the book. Some of the dialogue is exactly the same, and the only major edit I noticed was the movie's omission of the town of Hagsgate, which is totally understandable since if I had to edit the book for "time" that would be the bit to go. Oh and they also cut out a bit of Schmendrick's backstory which I think they probably should have kept because it explained what a _really_ big deal him transforming the unicorn was, and also Molly's line to him about "all that matters to you is becoming a real magician at last." Not even the book gives us Molly's backstory, though. Boo. I've always been curious about how she went from being a young woman waiting for unicorns to Captain Cully's... whatever she was to him.

I liked the book just as much as I've always liked the movie, and will keep this one to read to Morgan when her attention span is a little more amenable to chaptered stories.

Title: The Last Unicorn
Author: Peter S. Beagle
Pages: 304

12 / 24 books. 50% done!

Comments

[silverflight.livejournal.com]

One of my All-Time Most Favorite Books E-VAR. And no, not just because it has unicorns in it. Peter S. Beagle is so talented. He writes such creative description. *lovelovelove* It's tough for me to decide who is my favorite character - Schmendrick, Lir or the butterfly.

Somewhere - somewhere - I have an online article about the book (maybe it's an interview with Peter S. Beagle - I can't quite remember?) and it reveals more about the story as well as his inspirations for the book. I'll hunt it down this summer and let you borrow it. :)

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cool beans!

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

I liked the book. It had lots of pretty words in it and everything. I can hardly remember the movie, actually, despite seeing it twice as a child.

Can't think of anything relevant to say. Um. Sorry. I think Morgan will like it.