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Why are these books so based? For YA fare, of course

>> No.4149244

Almost everything it does is a genuinely refreshing inventive take on old but still resonant ideas.
Knights errant, Magical forests of mysterious doom, the edge of the world, and so on and so forth.

It invents and reinvents in equal measure, and seems to have been written in a way hand-crafted to set youthful imagination afire with it's sheer joyful creativity.

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>>4149244
>that feel when no movie.

>> No.4149267

>>4149125
I bet it's really edgy

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>>4149247
This feel.
It burns.

>> No.4149279

>>4149267
it really isn't

>> No.4149286

>>4149247
But then, it would almost certainly get all fucked up.

What director would you trust to convey the visual style of the illustrations, and the other things that went un-illustrated in the mind's eye?

Guillermo Del Toro perhaps.
His work on Pan's labyrinth seemed to me indicative of a talent to direct non-standard fantasy.

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>>4149244
one thing I only realised in hindsight is how the through the 4 ages, the attitude of society towards non-humans and women changes (in the Quint ones, there's Maris and no one else, while in Freeglader you got Varis Lodd and Magda). Maybe I find most fantasy I read to be so shit because this is what got me into it?

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it had such amazing illustrations

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>> No.4150098

Those books were amazing.

Fantastic world-building, truly unique.

The cross-hatched illustrations are beautiful. I've always considered getting one done in blackwork as a tattoo.

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Gloamglozer

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>>4149286
if guillermo del toro directed it it would be great. it would be unfaithful enough to piss off the purists, but it would be great.

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>> No.4150115

I say either:

Del Toro / Henson style fantasy w/ lots of practical effects and puppets

or

Black Cauldron style animation.

It would be better animated IMO

>> No.4150119

I loved those books as a child. It's strange that this is the first time I've seen them discussed on /lit/.

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>>4150119
they're not edgy and grim enough for the average e/lit/ist

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Anybody love the spiderwick chronicles as a child?
This book is me.

>> No.4150528

>>4150468
I wanted to like and read the spiderwick chronicles, but $12+ for a less than 100 page book was too much for my adolescent budget.