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Book Description
'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother . . .' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the CrookeContinue
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shotsmag published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010
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An odyssey underground
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly 310pp, Hodder & Stoughton, £11.99 The Home Counties, 1939. David lives with his father, his stepmother Rose and Georgie, his new baby stepbrother, in Rose's big old house. It's not an arrangement of which he a ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
8 Reviews
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When David's mother dies and his father remarries, David withdraws into the world of books and fairy tales that his mother loved so much. But once the books start talking to him and the world within their pages intrudes on his real life, reality quickly becomes skewed; David escapes through a hole i ... (continue)
annemarie said on Apr 25, 2009 | Add your feedback
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The story is well written. It's really easy to enter the world created by the author and I enjoy reading it a lot. I especially like the way "new version" of the fairy tales is re-written in this book. As the author has said, the book is a book about childhood for adult. While reading it some of my ... (continue)
Thelma said on Sep 5, 2007 | Add your feedback
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Vickywt said on Mar 28, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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I simply loved it!
Starts like a novel only to become a thriller filled with good old fantasy more or less at a third of the book.
I thought it was kinda of fantasy for children: I was completely wrong. It is not a book for kids. Maybe for teens, but definitely target are adults, too.
I did love the way the old folk t ... (continue)Drawy82 said on Oct 9, 2011 | Add your feedback
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currerbell said on Oct 29, 2010 | Add your feedback
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This was a great book about love and loss and facing one's fears. I liked the way David's wishes and fears influenced the kingdom as well as the interesting twists on the familiar fairy tales, myths and nursery stories. I especially liked the extensive section after the main story in which the autho ... (continue)
krin5292 said on Feb 21, 2009 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Others 512 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0340899484
- ISBN-13: 9780340899489
- Publisher: Hodder Paperback
- Pub date: Apr 05, 2007
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780340899489 | Others | $12.86 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The Book of Lost Things
Shotsmag Reviews -The Book of Lost Things If John Connolly’s collection of short stories has shown us anything, it is that he is such a diverse writer who cannot be typecast. The Book of Lost Things highlights Connolly’s excellent writing skills. Fa ... (read full critics)