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is a long an entertainingly illustrated book of silliness. It all starts with the Mini-Pirates and goes on from there. The silliness is charming but also so unrelenting that I had to take breaks. What do you expect from a German cartoonist who is responsible for a character called Little Asshole? (March 31, 2007)
An 'autobiography" of a blue bear who was found floating on the ocean by MiniPirates, rescued from a carnivorous island by Deus X Machina, a pterodactyl who saves people at the last moment & is currently finishing up his 6th or 7th life - a unconventional education with Professor Abdullah Nightingale at the Nocturnal Academy. The writing is light & funny (kudos to the translator!) and the line drawings definitely add to the offbeat tone.
It's a surreal fantasy (the protagonist is a sentient blue ...more
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Perhaps some people would find this book easier to deal with if they thought of it as a connected series of short stories or novellas? Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Bluebear's adventures, and by the time I got to the end, I was fully invested in his life. Walter Moers has an amazing imagination, and I can only hope to someday write with a quarter of it.
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Easy to read imaginative book. Not as good as "Rumo..." by the same author, but I supppse worth checking out if you liked other Moers books.
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