so i have chosen a book that i used to love, and read, all the time.
Ella Enchanted
and yes, incase you were wondering, this is the BOOK, by Gail Carson Levine, and it came out BEFORE the film.
"That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of lie, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped."
that's the first paragraph of chapter one, and i used to recite it by memory. in fact i had almost the entire of the first chapter off by heart.
now, although you may have seen the movie, i'm going to go right ahead and explain what this wonderful book is about.
as you can see from the first paragraph of the book, Ella is a young girl who has a "gift" of obedience. in other words, she must do anything that anyone tells her.
at any time, anyone can order her to top on one foot, cut off her hand, betray her kingdom, marry a prince...
her quest is to find Lucinda, the fairy who gave her this gift at birth, and convince her to take the gift back so she doesn't have to kill the man she loves.
don't get me wrong, the film is great, it has musical numbers, and anne hathaway who i adore and does a great job at ella, but as any fictional book made into a film - THEY MISS SO MUCH! i remember the first time i saw the film i was SO disappointed. especially with the character Mandy - they made her such a small role in the film, whereas in the book she plays a huge part.
so that is my choice for my fictional book, and i guess just to point out that the saying "don't judge a book by it's cover" definitely applies to this book, but perhaps even change the saying a little...
don't judge a book by it's film!
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