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  • i like how this book made me contemplate on some things after i finished it. and i think it has one of the best endings that i don't see very often in books now.

    

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• ― Vickywt said on Mar 28, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| 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

    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 author describes the origins of these stories, recommends some variations by other authors and then provides the original story.

    

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  • It makes me sad to write this as John Connolly is one of my favorite writers. But this book.... dismal. I will probably give it a second chance, but for now, I have to abandon it.

    It takes in WWII. A young boy has lost his mother, his father remarried quickly and now he has an infant broth ... Continue

    It makes me sad to write this as John Connolly is one of my favorite writers. But this book.... dismal. I will probably give it a second chance, but for now, I have to abandon it.

    It takes in WWII. A young boy has lost his mother, his father remarried quickly and now he has an infant brother. He and his step-mum do not get along and his father seems to blame him.

    One night as he lies sleeping his mother's voice awakens him. He follows her voice to a tree. At the same time he gets to the tree a plane crashes into his backyard. The mother's voice tells him to come into the tree, so he does... and lands in a different world. It gets a bit chaotic after this.

    

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• ― Helena said on Oct 21, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

'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 Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.

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