Book Review: The Neverending Story

Occasionally I revisit fantasy novels that I read, or that I wish I'd read, in my childhood: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Dragonriders of Pern, The Phantom Tollbooth. Already this year, A Wrinkle in Time both impressed and disappointed me: it was somehow simultaneously both much weirder and much more simplistic than I had hoped. Michael Ende's The Neverending Story is far from…