The Neverending Story
I'd heard of this book (and the movie made from it) for years, and was curious - a classic always intrigues me. So I finally read it. The description of the world of Fantastica is brilliantly done - so imaginative. I'd love to know if there is a book with better illustrations at the beginning of each chapter than the paperback edition I have. I'm a bit more curious about the movie now, though I'm not sure animation could do the writer's imagination justice.
But I'm still a little confused about the point of the book. Every story is new each time you read it, because you're a different PERSON each time you read it? Getting lost in your imagination can be a bad thing, because you can forget who you are? Always trust your friends? The imagination is a very powerful thing? And what/who IS the Childlike Empress, really? Why did she never come back?
That's pretty much what I got out of it. It was a good book, but it wasn't spectacular, as I'd thought it might be. And I don't think I'd ever read it again, so it falls a bit short of my definition of classic.
