Another great story by Walter Moers, like Captain Bluebear and Rumo, also by Moers, it is another fantasy book of the adventure of a lifetime for any writer.
It starts with Optimus Yarnspinner, a Lindworm,meets his dying 'authorial' granduncle, who then gives him a magnificent piece of writing that was said to change his life forever if he is to read it. This piece of writing is said to be so good that it could make you laugh, cry, weep like mad and then suddenly forget your worries and later be kept on tenterhooks throughout the strangely short 10 page writing.
Thus Optimus Yarnspinner soon seeks the author who is said to be living in an authors paradise called "Bookholm" where he meets strange people and somebody who seems to be helping him, Pfistomel Smyke( a cousin of Smyke from Rumo, they are usually crimelords), who then imprisones him in the Bookholm catacombs where he meets the so called feared 'Booklings' which are actually cute little cyclopses who have a great passion and 'eat' the content of the book.
Later, he finds the greatest bookhunter who seeked refuge with the booklings because of his many injuries which are too serious to recover from and many more adventures happen in this book and once again, it ends with a happy ending but this time not entirely without grief.
Thank you,
1P421
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