

Laddar... The Last Unicorn (urspr publ 1968; utgåvan 1991)av Peter S. Beagle (Författare)
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Best Fantasy Novels (210) Favorite Childhood Books (812) » 14 till 20th Century Literature (298) Books Read in 2019 (172) 1960s (39) Books Read in 2018 (587) Books Read in 2016 (1,790) Favourite Books (1,128) Female Protagonist (673) not at the library (12) Books Read in 2017 (3,639) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. You ever read a book that just makes you keep stopping to go 'oh. OH. oh my heart.'? That's this one. It's like poetry and dreams and I wish I'd read it sooner, though maybe as a kid I wouldn't have appreciated it nearly as much. This book has many elements and they are woven together in a magical way which makes you feel a deep respect for unicorns. Unicorns are magical, unexplainable, mysterious and eternal, and reading the book makes them feel real. A fantasy tale written by American Author Peter S. Beagle. It is obvious when reading this book that he is a story teller. This story of the last unicorn who is at perfect peace in her woods, but overhears a conversation about no more unicorns. She is haunted by this and is impelled to leave on a quest to seek out her people. On the way, she is joined by a poor excuse for a magician and a woman from a Robin Hood like gang. They seek the Red Bull who is the one who may have gathered up the unicorns. This quest brings them into a wreck of a castle occupied by an old recluse king, his old guards and his adoptive son. It is a twist on the prince who saves the princess story along with the legend of the unicorn. The unicorn is the protagonist in this story. I can see some influence of this book on other stories and perhaps other stories influenced this story. We watched the animated cartoon of this movie when I was in third grade, and it was a few years later that I realized it was, in fact, a book, although when I did try to read it, it was a little too complex for me at the time. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Recounts the quest of the last unicorn, who leaves the protection of the enchanted forest to search for her own kind, and who is joined by Schmedrick the Magician and Molly Grue in her search. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The book was in part a typical fairytale, and in part a play on fairytales. At times unicorns were reality and people were not. The play on what we know and what we think we know felt like a constant theme throughout the story.
I think the greatest magicians make you wonder, not looking for ‘the trick,’ and similarly, I think some of the greatest stories don’t make you wonder, but believe. When spring comes, may you wonder the existence of unicorns. (