{"id":2970,"date":"2019-01-03T12:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2019-05-28T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:29:20","slug":"the-neverending-story-sparked-my-love-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/the-neverending-story-sparked-my-love-for-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Neverending Story” Sparked My Love For Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I think of my favorite childhood books, The Neverending Story<\/strong><\/a> is the first one that comes to mind. After all, this book was the<\/strong><\/span> book that really sparked my love for reading. It’s a fantastic story and if you haven’t read this book at least once in your life, you’re missing out!<\/span><\/p>\n

First published in 1979 and then translated in English in 1983, <\/span>“The Neverending Story” <\/span><\/em>centers on a boy who is given wishes after saving “Fantasia”. With each wish, Bastian loses a memory of his life in the real world and risks staying in the imaginative world of Fantasia forever.\u00a0 Read my review for The Neverending Story here.<\/a>
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Many people have seen the movie but very few have read the book that inspired it. Whhaaaa? I know, right!?<\/span><\/p>\n

The author, Michael Ende, was supportive of the movie’s production at first but later became the movie’s biggest critic. He claimed that the movie’s Director, Wolfgang Peterson, secretly rewrote the script after Ende’s final review and denounced the movie during a press conference in Stuttgart. Ende later demanded his name be removed from the credits stating, “the makers of the film simply did not understand the book….. they just wanted to make money<\/em>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

He later filed a lawsuit against the production company claiming a breach of contract in an attempt to halt the making of the movie’s sequel. “My moral and artistic existence is at stake in this film.” <\/em><\/span>He subsequently lost the case.<\/p>\n

Although I happened to like the movie, I do agree that the underlining meaning of the story is lost and many of the major scenes were kept out. We hear it a lot but in this case it is true: the book really is better than the movie.<\/p>\n

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What does Bastian name the Empress?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don’t view the answer if you haven’t read the book!<\/strong>

Bastian names her “Moon Child” in the end.<\/div>