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A review by gelatinousdessert
Momo by Michael Ende
5.0
I bought this book several months ago at a used book store, but I put off reading it because I was afraid it wouldn't live up to Michael Ende's other famous book, which also happens to be my favorite book, The Neverending Story. While Momo isn't as complex and more bluntly allegorical, it is charming and emotionally stunning. Perhaps I am more naive than most readers, but I felt myself swept up into this book's persuasive world in which children are forgetting how to play and adults only care about saving time instead of enjoying life--a world, of course, very much like our own.
I was at times amused, delighted, and deeply moved by this little book. There aren't many books I've read in a day, but I was literally reading this as I walked around the city because I simply couldn't stop reading. There are some books which genuinely affected the way I see the world, and I have a strong belief this one has become one of those.
Though more jaded and literary readers might balk at this book's childlike naivite, I believe anyone who gives this book a chance will fall under its spell.
I was at times amused, delighted, and deeply moved by this little book. There aren't many books I've read in a day, but I was literally reading this as I walked around the city because I simply couldn't stop reading. There are some books which genuinely affected the way I see the world, and I have a strong belief this one has become one of those.
Though more jaded and literary readers might balk at this book's childlike naivite, I believe anyone who gives this book a chance will fall under its spell.