“Not ready, not ready!” and “Now I’ll have to mop again.” And, “You’re going to eat while I do all the work?!?!” Good fiction, whether book or movie, is like medicine, isn’t it?Īnyway. So many lines have entered our family’s language. Honestly, his movie and the book really aren’t the same story at all even though there are entire scenes almost word for word the same in the first half. Of course, Miyazaki also added some bits that aren’t in the book that I love. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder WHAT he was thinking? Especially when the novel he was working from is so strong, not a hole in sight, its as tight as a drum and delightful the entire way through. I can quote that whole movie to you and I simply adore parts of it, but wow, Miyazaki has some howling ginormous plot holes in his version. He thought of it because, of course, we are already huge fans of the Miyazaki movie of the same name, have been for years. We had finished up Harry Potter and were at a loss to find another book until Luc hit on this one. It’s so wonderful, if you like fantasy at all, SMART fantasy, give a try if you haven’t already. Plus there is a cackling dry humor all the way through, AND its a love story, only its love between two cantankerous, flawed people that are also, somehow, completely endearing. She heads out to seek her fortune and ends up in the house of a mysterious wizard and his fire demon, with a door that leads to alternate dimensions. A young hatter finds herself under a curse that makes her look ninety years old-and she finds she likes it. Oh! It is SUCH a good book, such wonderful characters and also a tight and twisty plot, both sides of that coin strong, resilient, and surprising. We just finished listening to the audiobook of Howl’s Moving Castle.
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