Inkdeath/Tintentod
Sep. 4th, 2011 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ayascytheI hate to leave a good story behind me. I hate it all the more, when I wept bitter tears for it, got stuck to its pages like a fly on honey and needed several minutes to find back to reality again after I surfaced out of it again. I admit: I fell in love with Inkworld. Inkheart was still a bit meh, but, oh, the other two books! And I am so fucking sad and mopey right now, because it's over, over, over, I don't quite know what to do with myself (buy the books, that is what I'll do, and read Reckless, because even if I can't read anything new about Inkworld, I can still read something that is written in its style).
Can I just stop for a moment to say how crazily much I like Fenoglio? He's stubborn, megalomaniac, vain, so full of himself and his words, and so, so, so real. I loved each and every chapter about him, his complaints of how to end the story (oh, I see what you did there, Funke) and all the ways he took the story onto a completely different, meta-ish level (Was there someone else writing on his story, in another world? But what would that make him? Just another puppet.). I also noticed Fenoglio lamp-shading his own sexism in his story - that women are not given as important roles as the men - and I saw Funke's attempts to prove him otherwise. Violante. Resa. Meggie. Roxane. Elinor. And, yes, Death.
While I found Violante tremendously fascinating, if not entirely YAY-I-love-her, because yes, she did influence the story a whole lot, and while I found Roxane pretty damn fierce and awesome, and Elinor! I probably don't need to say much about Elinor, because that woman and her loud mouth rock my world. But it still felt like Meggie was just going with the flow, not really being able to do much except for her romance parts or reading what Fenoglio put under her nose. I don't know what it is that makes me dislike Resa - especially since I found her absolutely okay in the first two books. I know she's supposed to be fierce and all woman-power, but. But. She's too little fleshed out for that and despite the few last scences of importance, I felt like most of the things she did were irrelevant.
Dustfinger. I didn't even dare hoping he'd come back in this book, but he did! Dustfinger is back - I whispered it into the ears of my still half-sleeping boyfriend like a kid saying "Santa Clause was here!", still not quite believing it. And he was so awesome (Dustfinger, that is). The fire tricks! The ~~emotional bond of love~~ to Mo! The rescue of his daughter (and the betrayal to Mo for it)! The revenge for Farid's death that he finally got! I could go on and on, but let me sum it up just by saying that I smiled and cheered inwardly everytime a sentence spoke of him.
Also, I refuse to believe anything else but the fact that Orpheus is a repressed, closeted gay man whose first crush was a character in a book (Dustfinger). And then he brings him back to life, hoping that it will win him his heart, but Dustfinger chooses Mo over him. The love turns into hate, love, hate, a sick combination of both and he's so ashamed to still like Dustfinger. (Makes me think of Ultraverse. And this song.) Even Funke herself wrote something along the lines: He looked like a rejected lover. No one can convince me otherwise.
But now to Mo, about whom this book really was. I thought he was kind of shapeless in Inkheart, but his arrival at Inkworld truly gave him a form, a character. Lawful good, so lawful good. And he had to angst so much! (Which reminds me: damn, there was some very dark and gory stuff in there, definitely not a children's book.) I loved that he gave up to be the Eichelhäher, though. It felt right that way, that he should end the story as what he really was: a, ahem, "normal" bookbinder. I love Mo. I loved the Black Prince. I loved pretty much all of them. And Doria was lovely.
Le sigh. I don't even know anymore. My head is so full of thoughts about this book and it's over and I'm sad and now I really need to order them.
Can I just stop for a moment to say how crazily much I like Fenoglio? He's stubborn, megalomaniac, vain, so full of himself and his words, and so, so, so real. I loved each and every chapter about him, his complaints of how to end the story (oh, I see what you did there, Funke) and all the ways he took the story onto a completely different, meta-ish level (Was there someone else writing on his story, in another world? But what would that make him? Just another puppet.). I also noticed Fenoglio lamp-shading his own sexism in his story - that women are not given as important roles as the men - and I saw Funke's attempts to prove him otherwise. Violante. Resa. Meggie. Roxane. Elinor. And, yes, Death.
While I found Violante tremendously fascinating, if not entirely YAY-I-love-her, because yes, she did influence the story a whole lot, and while I found Roxane pretty damn fierce and awesome, and Elinor! I probably don't need to say much about Elinor, because that woman and her loud mouth rock my world. But it still felt like Meggie was just going with the flow, not really being able to do much except for her romance parts or reading what Fenoglio put under her nose. I don't know what it is that makes me dislike Resa - especially since I found her absolutely okay in the first two books. I know she's supposed to be fierce and all woman-power, but. But. She's too little fleshed out for that and despite the few last scences of importance, I felt like most of the things she did were irrelevant.
Dustfinger. I didn't even dare hoping he'd come back in this book, but he did! Dustfinger is back - I whispered it into the ears of my still half-sleeping boyfriend like a kid saying "Santa Clause was here!", still not quite believing it. And he was so awesome (Dustfinger, that is). The fire tricks! The ~~emotional bond of love~~ to Mo! The rescue of his daughter (and the betrayal to Mo for it)! The revenge for Farid's death that he finally got! I could go on and on, but let me sum it up just by saying that I smiled and cheered inwardly everytime a sentence spoke of him.
Also, I refuse to believe anything else but the fact that Orpheus is a repressed, closeted gay man whose first crush was a character in a book (Dustfinger). And then he brings him back to life, hoping that it will win him his heart, but Dustfinger chooses Mo over him. The love turns into hate, love, hate, a sick combination of both and he's so ashamed to still like Dustfinger. (Makes me think of Ultraverse. And this song.) Even Funke herself wrote something along the lines: He looked like a rejected lover. No one can convince me otherwise.
But now to Mo, about whom this book really was. I thought he was kind of shapeless in Inkheart, but his arrival at Inkworld truly gave him a form, a character. Lawful good, so lawful good. And he had to angst so much! (Which reminds me: damn, there was some very dark and gory stuff in there, definitely not a children's book.) I loved that he gave up to be the Eichelhäher, though. It felt right that way, that he should end the story as what he really was: a, ahem, "normal" bookbinder. I love Mo. I loved the Black Prince. I loved pretty much all of them. And Doria was lovely.
Le sigh. I don't even know anymore. My head is so full of thoughts about this book and it's over and I'm sad and now I really need to order them.
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Date: 2011-09-04 07:08 pm (UTC)Das ist das niedlichste, was ich je gelesen habe xD
Und ich finds schön, dass du die Bücher genauso toll fandest wie ich :D Ich fand die letzten beiden auch besser als Tintenherz, aber insgesamt... es ist echt schön, wenn man in so eine Welt sinken kann und es dann auch noch kaum bis gar keine Charaktere gibt, die man nicht mag <3
Bei Orpheus hab ich übrigens genau das gleiche gedacht! *hibbel* Als ich es Nathan erklärt habe, meinte der ich bilde mir das ein... xD
viel Spaß mit Reckless :D
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Date: 2011-09-04 07:22 pm (UTC)Ist tatsächlich so passiert! XD
Ich hätte echt nicht gedacht, dass die Bücher mich so verschlucken, aber es ist einfach so passiert. Liebe auf den zweiten Blick. x3 Ich würd sie grade gerne nochmal von vorne lesen, sowas ist mir echt schon lange nicht mehr passiert.
Und wie schön, dass wir uns mit Orpheus mal wieder einer Meinung sind! ;)
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Date: 2011-09-04 08:21 pm (UTC)Wie fandest du eigentlich den letzten Satz? Ich habe in einem Versuch zu verstehen, was du da so toll findest, mich darüber zu infomieren und mich über den letzten Satz totgelacht. Und alles war gut*. All was well^^
*Auf Wiki steht der letzet Satz der Abenteuerhandlung, was auch immer das heißt.
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Date: 2011-09-04 09:38 pm (UTC)Ich habe erst nicht verstanden, was du meinst, und dann auch den Wiki-Artikel gelesen. Das Problem ist nämlich, dass Seite 718 nicht die letzte ist und noch ein paar folgen, deswegen ging das bei mir unter.^^ Aber der Kontext ist ein bisschen besser als bei HP und es wirkt nicht ganz so albern wie im Epilog of Doom.