by Walter Moers
bookshelves: translation, germany, published-1999, autumn-2011, dip-in-now-and-again, doo-lally, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, winter-20112012, kiddlewinks, fantasy, adventure, philosophy Read from October 16, 2011 to January 08, 2012 I'm doing a Kermie flail because here we have mini pirates.MIN...
I enjoyed reading The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear in the beginning. However, after making progress with the book, I started to lose interest.The characters are extremely unique to say the least. The world concepts are amazing, but the storytelling is far from good. The book needs a serious cleanup...
Yes, but Kindle.
I'm doing the Kermie flail because here we have mini pirates.MINI - PIRATES I tell yar! blurb - Captain Bluebear is a bear with blue fur, a creature as unique as thefantastic adventures he undergoes. Unlike cats, which have only ninelives, bluebears have twenty-seven. This is fortunate, because ou...
Third abandoned book of 2011!I didn't quite make it through the first 200 pages before throwing in the towel. Though Bluebear has some unusual experiences (Moer has an excellent imagination, I admit) he seems only to be buffeted along by other actors' whims; the protagonist observer. Our narrator ha...
Humor is a very personal matter. What some people find funny, others find stupid. I've always tended to enjoy British humor more than American, outside of Mel Brooks. I prefer Blackadder over Mr. Bean. I love Little Britain, but don't really find Webb and Mitchell (or is it Mitchell and Webb?) t...
Now this is just brilliant! The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear is one of the most fascinating books I've read. Walter Moers creates a vivid and imaginative universe and stays absolutely true to it to the very end. I think it might even be a bit better than The City of Dreaming Books although I don...
Indescribable, mad book, but fun. A blue bear tells of his bizarre adventures (half of his 27 lives) in a fantasy world of extraordinary creatures. Rescued and raised by mini pirates, taught to talk by Babbling Willows, navigator for a pterodactyl superhero etc etc. Interspersed with snippets from a...