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u/cyka__blyat · 87 pointsr/de

So ein fantastisches Buch.

/r/all: If you're looking for a fantastic book, especially if you liked The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, read The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear.

It's seriously amazing, great as a childrens book but adults will definitely enjoy it aswell. Here, check out the editorial reviews. It's great.

u/actionscripted · 5 pointsr/books

Walter Moers

Given the massive success of Adams, Pratchett and others, the rave reviews of everything in Moers' ever-expanding Zamonia series, the fantastic illustrations and the riotous and creative writing I cannot believe so few people have read these books.

These books have some deep social and psychological analysis alongside absurdity, humor, violence, love and adventure.

Reference books, chronologically:

  • The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

  • Rumo

  • The City of Dreaming Books

  • Alchemaster's [sic] Apprentice

    Editorial reviews:


    >“Cheerfully insane. . . . Remains lively and inventive right through the final heroic battle between good and evil.”

    —The New York Times Book Review


    >“Moers’s creative mind is like J.K. Rowling’s on ecstasy; his book reads like a collision between The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the Brothers Grimm…. What a delightful book.”

    —Detroit News and Free Press

    >“An overstuffed confection… Cross The Lord of the Rings with Yellow Submarine, throw in dashes of Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Shrek, and The Princess Bride…That’s the sort of alchemy in which this sprawling novel trades.”

    —Kirkus
u/kingluc · 5 pointsr/books

the Abarat books by Clive Barker, make sure you get the illustrated editions!

The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

Crusade in Jeans by Thea Beckman One of my all time favourites, the old translated editions weren't as good but a new version will be published in november.

The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

u/Hit-Enter-Too-Soon · 4 pointsr/Fantasy

I have a few things like that, that I love to spread the word on.

The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear was originally in German, and Wikipedia says that it was successful there and in the UK when it was translated into English, but never really made it in the US. The humor definitely has a British flavor to me, so I get that.

https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Captain-Bluebear-Walter-Moers/dp/1585678449/

Hiero's Journey is another that I don't know anyone else who's read. I really like its depiction of his struggles as a telepath.

https://www.amazon.com/Hieros-Journey-Sterling-Lanier/dp/0345308417

The Wild Cards series is one I'm always surprised that people haven't heard of, because they have made quite a few books. It's edited by George R. R. Martin, but not written by him. It's set in a version of our world where aliens who were very similar to humans genetically came here to test a biological weapon.

Of those who were exposed to the virus, 90% weren't affected. Of those who were affected, 90% died. Of those who didn't die, 90% ended up like the Morlocks from X-Men comics - mutated in ways that made them "unacceptable" in society. But that 0.1% of people left (if I'm remembering my numbers correctly) got honest to goodness superpowers.

The real strength of the series is in its creative superpowers. If you've read Worm and enjoyed that aspect of it, check out Wild Cards.

If you haven't read Worm (sometimes aka Parahumans), I definitely recommend that one as well.

u/lubriciousbears · 3 pointsr/de
u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/tipofmytongue

That's be my guess. It's been sitting on my shelf since last Christmas. Maybe one day I'll read it...

http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Captain-Bluebear-Walter-Moers/dp/1585678449/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

u/akidiknow · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Captain-Bluebear-Walter-Moers/dp/1585678449

definitely check out the 13.5 lives of captain bluebear, or anything else by Walter Moers. The only reason they aren't really childrens books is because the vocabulary is so large and the epic is so long.

u/LeadfootYT · 1 pointr/AskReddit

The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear, by Walter Moers.

I was 14, and fairly depressed (laugh all you want, but it was horrible) with little to do. Some family friends (honorary aunt and uncle) gave it to me to read, and it was wonderful. I laughed, I cried, but most of all, I realized that I did not have to become a boring old person living a boring life and doing boring things with my years. It sounds cliché, and painfully so, but I began to realize if I rolled with the punches and took chances, things, I might have some interesting stories to tell.

I can't describe the book - it has hints of The Hobbit told with a reflective, knowledgeable voice. I've often considered re-reading it, but it's one of those books you can only read once.

u/nimaj · 1 pointr/books

Although it clocks in at a little over 700 pages, the 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear seems to go by too fast.

u/grammarandstyleaso · 1 pointr/bookclub

The Zamonia-Novels by Walter Moers:
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They are funny, gruesome, surreal and simply brilliant. Look at the reviews on amazon. Especially Rumo and The City of the Dreaming Books were unputdownable.

u/yetifaerie · 1 pointr/books

I was always a big reader, but Madelein L'Engle started me on my passion of reading with A Wrinkle In Time and A Wind In The Door

As a grown-up, I can enjoy books for children with a better eye.... If you ever find a copy of Walter Moers' The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear pick it up and devour it! It is endlessly entertaining, and endearingly sweet. Good as a fantastical children's book, but adults will enjoy the quick wit and humor. I've given away three copies as gifts!

u/MajorAss · 1 pointr/books

13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear. Pretty funny book and it has pictures.

u/AutoAdviceAlgorithm · 1 pointr/AskReddit

The Zamonia Books by Walter Moers. Seriously.
Start with either
Rumo,
City of Dreaming Books
or
Captain Bluebear

Don't let the cover illustrations fool you: these are seriously entertaining, thrilling, funny and sometimes brutal reads (check the commentaries on amazon).

u/Boogidy · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

My first thought was The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers. It's silly and strange and awesome fantasty stuffs, but nothing that's going to make you really delve into deep thought. I definitely enjoyed it, anyway. Hope this helps!