OmiGawdOmiGawdOmiGawd: INKHEART! *squeeeee*

[liz_marcs]

I am not at all in a spammy mood today. Not. At. All.

See, I just found out that the awesome Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is being turned into a film.

*dances happily in cubical like a loon*

And it's going to star Brendan Fraser as Mortimer Folchart/Silvertongue (the good-guy father who's on the lam).

*whoops loudly and causes co-workers to stare at me*

This book is made of awesome. Funke is just a freakin' magical writer. (Here's the Official Cornelia Funke US Fan Site.)

If you like Harry Potter, you will adore Cornelia Funke. If you don't like Harry Potter for whatever reason, you'll at least like these books.

Back in my Bordersverse days, I was always pushing Funke off on anyone I could. She's been big in Germany quite awhile, at least from what I understand. Scholastic (the last indpendent publishing house in the U.S. and also publishers of Harry Potter, Goosebumps, and Captain Underpants) have been steadily releasing her translated books into the U.S. market over the past couple of years.

Her books are definitely worth getting for yourself, let alone if you've got pre-teens and early teen kids.

Still...MOVIE!!!!!!

INKHEART MOVIE!!!!!!

With Brendon Fraser!!!!!!

Wheeeeee!!!!!

*passes out from joy*


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[4thdixiechick.livejournal.com]

I second your Inkheart/Brendon Fraser squee!

And thanks for posting the OK Go vid. earlier. The front man (who ever he is) was on the Colbert Report last night, and now I really want to buy the CDs.

[omnie.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome. And Brendan Fraser is always fun, although I completely can't picture him as the father - I sort of thought he should be older, and sort of graying and and not so young or pretty. But, still, yay!

[honorh.livejournal.com]

That is so cool! My niece *loves* those books. I'll have to take her when it comes out.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

So you're saying... I should read Inkheart?

;-)

I did read The Thief Lord and thought it was quite good.

[koos73.livejournal.com]

Never heard of before. Sounds like a writer/book I need to check out.

[fufumira.livejournal.com]

There is a Thief Lord movie out there somewhere. I Netflixed it a couple of months ago. My Borders days were spent trying to not kill the uncaffienated while begging my manager to let me work with the books, because the books were not mean cranky individuals with a penchant for berating me for things I couldn't help. They did have a tendency to fall on my head when I had to get one from the back but otherwise, we were cool. I spent far less money on books when I worked there, thanks to the Book Loan program. Only part I miss really...

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

Almost anything with Brendan Fraser in it is cause for celebration.

I'm going to post this on my LJ, but I thought you'd appreciate teh awesomeness of this:
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[goosegirl9.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I loved the book.

[ladycelt.livejournal.com]

We listened to this book on CD during a long road trip, and I fell in love with the books AND with Brendan Fraser's reading of it. :)