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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “This is a breathtaking, tautly written tale that oozes atmosphere. Pullman brings into play Faustian issues of determinism, precisely offsetting the will to recreate life and the meting out of death. (Indeed, the clever moral boxes embedded in the text draw on Nietsche - don't tell the kids!) The...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “So boring and short, I had no interest.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“So boring and short, I had no interest.”
Jessica wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“a horrible book that doesn't tell a story or even have a real ending.I hated it.”
Frindle wrote this review Monday, April 1, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Simply love the first part, real attention grabber. Parts two and three are a little confusing at times. But the whole taken together is great.”
SilverTill wrote this review Tuesday, January 8, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“scared the living daylights out of me, cried at other parts (mind you I was child back then and this is the first proper book that I read on my own accord.) ”
L-Manio wrote this review Sunday, December 2, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Clock work. Set in a village during winter. Fritz, a story writer experiences the scariest even of lifetime for the little bar maid, Grettar.”
Olivia5alive wrote this review Tuesday, September 4, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A short, modern fairytale in the style of Edgar Alan Poe horror mixed with Hans Christian Andersen”
Lucy wrote this review Saturday, July 14, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The pieces of this tale fit together eponymously. You'll have to read it twice to appreciate how tightly wound this novel is.”
Sara wrote this review Friday, June 29, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Eh, Good book. Read it before so it was ok. Easy read-Can read it more than once c:”
Ngaio (: wrote this review Saturday, March 10, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I read this little book in one sitting last night, and while I enjoyed it, I didn't love it. It tells the tale of many characters whose lives are interwoven and paths cross together like the workings of a clock... one movement leads to the next. The story is set in a German village where a group of people come together. There's an apprentice clock-maker, who is distraught because he is facing being humiliated as a failure, and a story teller who has a story to tell that has no ending yet. There's a doctor, who replaces hearts with clockwork, who might just be the devil, and a little prince who's clockwork heart is winding down. There's also a murderous clock figure who is a knight with a sword that once it starts swinging, nothing can stop it except a tune that is also part of the mystery. All of this comes together into a tale that is rather chilling, but not scary. I don't know that most kids would take the time to really understand the depth of this story, and I'm not even sure that I did. ”
Linda B wrote this review Thursday, March 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Fantastic Book it was the first book I've completely finished ”
Kevin McKee wrote this review Friday, April 27, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
