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sira_underhill ([personal profile] janetlin) wrote2008-05-02 07:15 pm

Book #12 - The Last Unicorn

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!

[identity profile] cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
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.