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Book #12 - The Last Unicorn
May. 2nd, 2008 07:15 pmWow, 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!
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
