The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer truly is about a world of make-believe - the places, the characters, their adventures - all are make-believe and so unusual one needs to leave everything one knows, believes and understands behind. Meet Optimus Yarnspinner, an aspiring author, who receives the most perfect manuscript ever written. In his quest to find the talented author the naive dinosaur finds himself isolated in the catacombs where encounters the friendly one-eyed booklings, The Shadow King, numerous bookhunters, book after book like you have never dreamed existed and the evil Pfistomel Smyke. It's a most unusual and a most interesting read.

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A strange book with stranger creatures. There are lizards, cyclopes, living books, and some things I can not even describe. Optimus Yanspinner goes on an adventure looking for the author of the best written story ever. Optimus almost dies many times as he gets lost in the catacombs of Bookholm..

I did not get into the book until I was half way through. The book became fun once the Booklings came along. This a uniquely strange and delirious book. I find it really hard to described because is like nothing I can remember. I figure how can you go wrong with a book about books and a world that loves books.

The biggest reason I had a hard time getting into the book until the middle was because all the strange names and strange descriptions. I also felt that there were times the description was like watching a movie with too much going on at once and not really knowing what was going on. I reread some scenes over and over.

A world of book lovers and writers who write books that become magically dangerous and some that are just normal readable books. How can you not love a world like that if you are avid reader. The book is very different. Am I glad I read it? Yeah I guess I am. It really for someone with an wide open imagination.

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