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Novela breve y entretenida apta para todos los públicos. Con una prosa sencilla es capaz de transportarte a un mundo mágico. Una historia que parece simple, pero que está llena de matices.
Muy recomendable

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Angel

Bueno, sencillo y ligero

Revisado en España el 3 de enero de 2014

Me encanta Neil Gaiman, así que para hacerle honor, diré que no es su mejor obra aunque como todo lo que he leído suyo, sea muy bueno.

Este pequeño libro es en realidad un cuento de hadas largo, aunque pasado por el filtro del escritor, lo que significa más oscuro en general, conmovedor por momentos, poco convencional casi siempre y de eso que te hace sonreir pero no puede evitar dejar cierto regusto amargo. Y además con ese estilo suave que invita a seguir leyendo, es como "leer cuesta abajo".

Por cierto, la peli es divertida, cambia cosas y añade otras (como el baile de Robert DeNiro o la marioneta del final), ¡pero en el libro pasan muchas más cosas!

Totalmente recomendable.

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Cuento de hadas para adultos

A. G.

Revisado en España el 9 de julio de 2018

Precioso libro, un cuento de hadas para todos los públicos con personajes diferentes y un final inusual. Maravillosa adaptación en película además.

Revisado en España el 3 de noviembre de 2016

Incredible fairytale for ADULTS. I repeat NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. But it truly is great. Neil Gaiman is a freaking rockstar.

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Great book in a great edition

Chuck

Revisado en España el 21 de mayo de 2016

Great book and outstanding edition, a treat for anyone who likes reading. Wonderfully written, perhaps, together with Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman's best.

Not a bad adult tale, but not flawless (6/10)

Manuel

Revisado en España el 13 de septiembre de 2013

I watched the movie adaptation a long time ago and was really happy to discover that it was based on a book. Regretfully, this is one of those few rare cases in which the movie is better than the book. I had a hard time imagining what the author was describing and if I hadn't watched the movie, that would have been an impossible task. In addition, the plot and the worldbuilding are not as epic as they are in the movie.
Nevertheless this is a beautiful tale and, even if it can be a little dragged on at certain points, it is a good and fast read.

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Revisado en Reino Unido el 23 de julio de 2019

A nice faerie story based in a wee town called Wall. Named so because its surrounded by a wall! No one is allowed out. It is guarded all the time. Beyond the wall is where fairies come from. Tristan is half human half fairie. In the midst of declaring his undying love a star falls from the sky. He is then quested to find the star and bring it back and his hearts desire will come to fruitition. Here is where the adventures begin......
Brilliantly written and a nice wee twist 😉

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Tasha Ní Mhiacháin

Torn

Revisado en Reino Unido el 4 de septiembre de 2021

“There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.”

I don’t know how to express what I’m feeling now that I’ve finished Stardust.

The writing style is very fanciful, I honestly don’t know how else to explain it. Sometimes the descriptions were so incredible I stopped to read them a few times, but that style carried over into every aspect of the book and in some cases it felt like it took too long for the author to get through a very short scene.

Despite the fact that it felt drawn out I wanted to keep reading. I’m completely torn because I kind of loved it but I also kind of didn’t.

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Shells

maybe spoilers ahead,

Revisado en Reino Unido el 11 de octubre de 2017

I do love this story. I love the way it is written, very much like an old type of fairy tale. It transported me instantly into its world and i literaally finished it within a day. The language is sublime. Yet i prefer the film. Unusuhal for me but i watched the film first and the book and film are strikingly different.
I much prefer the emotion in the film and as much as i liked the book it is painfully emotionless.
The star and Tristran just seem to suddenly decide to be together, you just have to imagine that they built up a relationship with no help from the author. Whereas the film uses their time on the air ship to bring the characters together.
And although i do like the peaceful ending with the 'evil' witch, it did seem a little rushed and unsatisfying. And again, a huge lack of emotion. A total disregard for his newly discovered mother and his father left behind the wall.
Rarely do I ever say a film is better than its novel, but in this case it's simple true. I loved the magic in the film. So much that i named my son Trystan. Anyway, book or film, this is a story that has touched my heart and the most enjoyable fairytale ive discovered :) x

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Amazon Customer

Beautifully story, written by a wonderful storyteller

Revisado en Reino Unido el 15 de septiembre de 2018

I loved this story. I loved the film when it came out, not realising it was a book. The basic story is the same (ish) but the book has more detail and depth. The moral line behind it, from my view, is respect and kindness. It's fantasy made it interesting and exciting, it's themes, thought provoking and its characters intriguing.
There were things that bothered me, and the main reason I gave 4 stars and not 5, the book isn't all that long, I felt like the characters had more to tell, but then, my imagination is still thinking about them 2 days on, so maybe that's the intention, who knows. Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and would definitely recommend it to any, particularly those that enjoy fantasy.

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Trisha J.

Doesn't quite deliver

Revisado en Reino Unido el 25 de abril de 2020

This is a lovely fairy story, but as others have mentioned, it lacks depth. I could not engage with the people at all, or the situations in which they found themselves, and nor did the characters really engage with each other. I felt that I was reading an outline for a book, and the details were to come later. What a shame – this could have been so much better.

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