Big Fish 
Oddly enough, this book is the third incarnation of Big Fish I've consumed. To be honest, though, I don't think I would have loved it so much if it weren't for the movie and the musical bolstering it. All three pieces together create an odd but beautiful combination of story, visuals, and sound and IT IS INCREDIBLE. Absolutely love the way this story takes hold of the imagination.
I once bought the DVD of Big Fish - I still haven't found the time to watch it, but Ewan McGregor was enough reason to at least take the DVD with me. I didn't know it was based on a book and was rather surprised when a good friend recommended this book to me. I was slightly nervous getting into this book as I knew my friend likes it, and I wasn't sure whether it would work for me.I'm very sad to say it didn't. I think it was all a little lost on me. I couldn't quite grasp the point behind the

My father is a fishMy best friend is a little obsessive about reading the novel before seeing the film. Not so, me. Im a bit more laissez faire in these matters. I saw and thoroughly enjoyed Tim Burtons 2003 adaptation of Big Fish, and didnt think too much more about it. Fast forward a decade, and I hear that a major, Broadway-bound musical is on the way. Now I know its time to return to the source material.In the past, it has occurred to me that I have an overdeveloped sense of whimsy. Im a
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This book can be summed up in four words: Great writing, no plot.Like most readers, I watched the movie adaptation first, although I dont remember much about it now. Since Im working on a story that has a dreamy, fabulist writing style, I wanted to read something similar, and Big Fish certainly fits that description with passages like this: They say he never forgot a name or a face or your favorite color, and that by his twelfth year he knew everybody in his home town by the sound their shoes
I think the guy who plays the main character in this movie is attractive, but I forgot his name. If that's not a good reason to read the book, then I don't know what is.
Daniel Wallace
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Title | : | Big Fish |
Author | : | Daniel Wallace |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
Published | : | 2004 by Pocket (first published 1998) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy |
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He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes -or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish is the story of this man's life, told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts his son, William, knows. Through these tales -hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous- William begins to understand his elusive father's great feats, and his great failings.Itemize Books Concering Big Fish
Original Title: | Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions |
ISBN: | 0743484258 (ISBN13: 9780743484251) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | William Bloom, Edward Bloom, Sandra Kay Templeton, Jenny Hill |
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Please, read this book. Once in a while, like The Five People You Meet in Heaven, comes a book that is original, full of wonder, Chronicle of Narneish, so full of meaning and beauty that all must buy it, read it, and pass it on. This is perfection. Oh, also see the Tim Burton version of this. As a matter of fact, just see all of Burton's movies. How else to do such a story? Great!Oddly enough, this book is the third incarnation of Big Fish I've consumed. To be honest, though, I don't think I would have loved it so much if it weren't for the movie and the musical bolstering it. All three pieces together create an odd but beautiful combination of story, visuals, and sound and IT IS INCREDIBLE. Absolutely love the way this story takes hold of the imagination.
I once bought the DVD of Big Fish - I still haven't found the time to watch it, but Ewan McGregor was enough reason to at least take the DVD with me. I didn't know it was based on a book and was rather surprised when a good friend recommended this book to me. I was slightly nervous getting into this book as I knew my friend likes it, and I wasn't sure whether it would work for me.I'm very sad to say it didn't. I think it was all a little lost on me. I couldn't quite grasp the point behind the

My father is a fishMy best friend is a little obsessive about reading the novel before seeing the film. Not so, me. Im a bit more laissez faire in these matters. I saw and thoroughly enjoyed Tim Burtons 2003 adaptation of Big Fish, and didnt think too much more about it. Fast forward a decade, and I hear that a major, Broadway-bound musical is on the way. Now I know its time to return to the source material.In the past, it has occurred to me that I have an overdeveloped sense of whimsy. Im a
BookTube-A-Thon Challenege 2016 #3 Read a book you discovered through BookTube. (I found this over with Ashley from saidthestory).BookTube-A-Thon Challenege 2016 #6 Read and watch a book-to-movie adaptation.
This book can be summed up in four words: Great writing, no plot.Like most readers, I watched the movie adaptation first, although I dont remember much about it now. Since Im working on a story that has a dreamy, fabulist writing style, I wanted to read something similar, and Big Fish certainly fits that description with passages like this: They say he never forgot a name or a face or your favorite color, and that by his twelfth year he knew everybody in his home town by the sound their shoes
I think the guy who plays the main character in this movie is attractive, but I forgot his name. If that's not a good reason to read the book, then I don't know what is.
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