Stardust Novel ☑️ Recommended
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Stardust Book Review
This is a good book but not, as the movie would have you believe, a children’s book. What I liked the about this novel was the opportunity to really get to know the characters and to see a world created and explored in a way that the movie just doesn’t touch on. In other words, there’s a lot of detail and description in the novel and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There are quite a few differences of importance to note; there are many graphic scenes, some violent and some sexual that make this book inappropriate for younger audiences. It isn’t as romantic as the movie either which is a little bit disappointing.
All in all I have to say though that the book is a little drab; a little boring. Maybe I’m tainted by the exciting, fast paced action of the movie, or maybe it’s all of the changes that are made to streamline the plot and make it more interesting. The ending seems anti-climatic and rather sad and hints at other adventures that would be really neat to have read about…but then the novel would be even longer and that wouldn’t be good.
Stardust Movie Review
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Starring: Robert De Niro, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle, Pheiffer and many more.
I’m not sure how Neil Gaiman would feel to know that the movie version of his novel is better than the actual novel but I call it like it is and the movie is ten times better than the book. (Or at least two stars better anyway!) Not only is there an amazing roster of actors but the plot is really exciting. I especially loved the scenes with Robert De Niro when he revels himself to be rather famine and quite willing to dress up in women’s clothing! After reading the novel I wonder how that transformation of the text came about! In any case I thought everything was tasteful and appropriate for the target audience, definitely much younger then the target audience of the novel. It’s a great fairy tale with the usual, and yet somehow unusual, heroic quest thrown in.
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