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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: I think this book is amazing! I have already read it twice and both times I coudn't put it down. It glues you to your seat and transports you into a world of fantasy.
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Summary: The best!!!
Review: I believe this is the best book I have ever read. It added all of the emotions with it. It made me laugh, cry, mad, etc... The 10th Kingdom made you hope and think of what you would do in the same situation. There is no stopping of you reading this book over and over again. You should deffinatly purchase this book and read it. Being a teenager I still understood everything that was going on. If you like the book you should watch the movie.
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Summary: I simply love this book!
Review: This book is based on a miniseries by NBC, but it would probably have been better if the miniseries had been based on the book. It goes into the minds of the characters, showing you their personal thoughts. If you're a fan of fairytales (or magic, or werewolves, talking dogs, or fantasy), you'll be in love with this book just like me. You might even like it if you're a fan of romance novels. It just goes to show you that even janitors and waitresses can be heroes.
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Summary: The Story of a Lifetime
Review: after reading this book i was astonished by the imagination it would take to write this book. it's filled with adventure and thrilling moments that get you on the edge of your seat. once you start reading it you can never put the book down! it's a fairy tale come to life! i recomend this book to everyone because it truly is a facinationg book where all fairy tales come together!
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Summary: Excellent companion for fans of the mini-series-gone-movie.
Review: Those who have watched the full seven hours of the 10th Kingdom will have no problem filling some of the character mannerisms, dream sequences, and song lyrics neglected in the book, and will probably enjoy it as much as they have the movie. Otherwise, the author(s), Wesley being the pen-name for two best-selling writers, did a tremendous job in translating the gargantuan screenplay almost entirely word-for-word into a mere 479 pages, with the exception of one or two manglings, such as a completely revised swamp scene that, while probably bothersome to those who despise writers taking liberties with works, either in movies or in books, closes with no real altercation to further events leading to the story's end.My enjoyment of the movie probably influences my rating of this book, but as one who wasn't new to the nine kingdoms, it kept my imagination active.
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Summary: Ouch.
Review: Textual and visual media have very different strengths, and only rarely can the same story function successfully as both a book and a movie. _The Princess Bride_ works both ways; _The 10th Kingdom_, tapping a similar vein of humorous fantasy, does NOT. Despite its length, the miniseries was truly enjoyable: entertaining, skillfully produced, nicely acted, clever. Unfortunately, the book does not meet that standard. For instance, much of the movie's humor is visual: the outrageous costumes of the Peeps, the preening and pratfalls of the Troll children, Scott Cohen's skillful lupine gestures and over-the-top enthusiasms. The courtiers shielding their Emperor with feathers. An aging Cinderella. All of these things are better SEEN than described; the physical descriptions in the book are bland repetitions, without verve. The writer was unable to capture the movie's humor -- its greatest strength -- and without that leavening, the story is rambling, discontinuous, and frankly dull. In addition to its un-funniness, the book doesn't tell a vivid story, or create compelling characters. Wesley spends too much time letting the characters whine about their insecurities, and not enough time exploring the potential strengths of a text. I find the movie fascinating because of its re-appropriation and re-imagining of fairy tales. It's also funny and entertaining, worthwhile for its own sake. The book, however, is entirely mundane.
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Summary: A book for all times
Review: I myself HATE reading,(emphasise on hate) but after seeing the mini series i could not control myself in getting the book. I could not put it down! I shared tid bits and such with my friends and have gotten everyone ealse hocked. Hopefully you'll have your imagination gripped and your heart stolen as i had. Your making a mistake saying no! My own summary on the book: Based on the mini series from NBC comes the action packed book based on the screenplay. A waitress named Virginia and her father Tony stumbled into the adventure of a lifetime. Filled with deceit, romance, heroism, lies, adventure and true love. Veronica and her father travel through the nine kingdoms(once ruled by Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Ridding Hood) in search of the Evil Queen to try and turn Prince Wendell, who has been turned into a dog, back into a human before his corination. The nine kingdoms are full of trolls, sheperdesses, enchanted forests, talking mushrooms and more. So travel from New York city to the nine kingdoms. Welcome to the tenth kingdom.
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Summary: I do not reccommend this book...
Review: I now hear there is going to be a sequel. What i must constantly ask myself is how this is possible. THE BOOK HAS NO REDEEMABLE QUALITIES!!! The only thing that saved the movie were the special effects but even that wasn't enough and the book was doubly bad! The wolf is just damn ennoying and the book is in no way original; I even caught them ripping off "Lady loveley Locks", i.e, talking dog named Prince with a past of royalty. If they took out the whole romance between the neurotic wolf and Virginia, maybe it could have been saved (take out the wolf period), but then there are the stupid trolls...The author felt that with every chapter they would move to the trolls, the wolf, and back to Virginia and her father..that was the most ennoying..as I often felt compelled to skip the parts with the first two. I could only read up to page 100 and for some reason rented the movie (I have no idea what I expected) Do not waste your time and money..if you want real fantasy romance, read Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Tolkein..anything but this garbage which was obviously done hastily. The authors were probably so embarrassed that they felt compelled to use a pen name.
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Summary: Movie vs Book
Review: My main concern when considering purchasing this book was whether it was worth owning both the book and the movie. I think it is. The book is very faithful to characters and plot, and is a convenient, traveling version of the movie. Sometimes I think I read the book faster than I watched the movie! For comparisions, the book does have some variation in the plot: the swamp scene is much shorter in the book (for which I was glad, since it didn't have much Wolf), the Golden River Gold Fish adventure is longer in the book, and we hear a lot more of Virginia's and Wolf's thoughts. However, the descriptive power of the author is very dim compared to the expressive ability of the camera (the reason I didn't give 5 stars). The descriptions of the characters are sketches, the sweeping landscape is glossed over, and the mannerisms of the characters are not emphasized. Inflections in voice or expressions are skimped over. This is a danger in any written medium, of course, but to me it was particularly glaring having the book and the movie to contrast.
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Summary: Huff Puff, what a dremy, creamy book!
Review: Okay- as an avid fan of Scott Cohen (Wolf) I thought that I would see the mini-series. Sadly, I missed it. But my very best friend had the gift package from NBC and said I could borrow the book becuase she liked the movie better. So I took it home and was sort of put off by the first 20 or so pages but after that, BOOM! I was hooked. The story revoles around a N.Y. waitress who is dissatisfied with life since nothing big has happened to her besides traumatic things (her mother leaving when she was 7, ect). Her father Tony is a janitor who is equally unhappy and spends his days fixing the apartment building they live in for rent. Meanwhile back in the 9 kingdoms where the infamus Cinderella and Red Riding Hood as well as many other fairytale people lived, The Evil Queen has escpaed from prision with the help of the Troll King. She turns her ex-step son Prince Wendell into a dog, and when he runs off, sends the Troll Kings children and a half man half Wolf named, oddly enough, Wolf, after him. Wendell lands on a mirror that takes him to the 'mythical 10th Kingdom (N.Y.C.) that is talked of only in myth' as the trolls say. (Their words, not mine.) Well, Wolf fallows and since I don't want to spoil, he tries to eat Virginia's granmother, gives Tony a magic dragon dung bean, and falls in love with his dreamy, creamy girl. (Virginia) Well, I really truly don't want to spoil anything so I'll just say that the book is VERY good and even if you don't like fairytales, read it just for Wolf's character. He has the best lines, and he's the one who gets them into the sticky situations. (Besides Tony's stupid thing with a fish...but you'll have to read it.) Anyway, the book mostly follows them trying to get the mirror back and does drag at some points but it's a great story and the characters are all great. Especially Wolf.
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