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Don't read this book. Do see the marvellous film, which I have watched so many times that I virtually know it by heart. Here are some of my favourite bits of dialogue:(Baron Munchausen meets the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson, leader of the beseiged city)JACKSON: You appear to have a rather weak grasp of reality.MUNCHAUSEN: Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash, and I am pleased to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!(The Baron has persuaded the theatre company to build him a hot air b...
Basically this book follows the movie exactly. It would probably be better to just watch the film and forgo the book. I was actually expecting just a bit more. Maybe a little something the movie left out, but no.
I am definitely going to have to check out the movie now.
When my grandmother randomly gifted me this book in fourth grade, I had no idea it was based on a movie. I just assumed Terry Gilliam (a name I recognized from late-night Monty Python on PBS) had written a darkly funny, theatrical novel in a style I would later recognize as magic realism. Seeing the movie years later, I was hugely impressed with it, but felt that, in some ways, it worked better on the page than on screen. There, the divisions between the various layers of story and of "reality/f...
While the movie is a classic and is wonderful, the book did nothing for me. A book is meant to surpass movies; to stimulate parts of the imagination that visual media can't touch. This book did none of that...it was a very strict retelling of whatever was on the screen. It was like Gilliam and McKeown spent an afternoon with a few pints, sitting on the couch, watching the movie, and writing down everything they saw. A much simplier (and less costlier) solution would be to just watch the wonderfu...
great illustrations. characters names hard to follow. wit and black humor very strong.
A charming novella adaptation of the screenplay (for the other way around, see Rudolph Erich Raspe's original) which rolls along just about faster than the pace of the actual movie. It takes little effort to paint in the details with memories of Gilliam's film, if you don't happen to have it on hand to watch.You do gain the benefit of insight to the characters' interior thoughts, motives and reactions (quite great in the case of Sally's observations). There are also beautiful little scenic detai...
This book is a rather uninspired version of a delightful movie. Very rarely can I say the movie is better, but, in this case, the movie is better.
