Soon, though, Yarnspinner falls into the clutches of the city's evil genius, Pfistomel Smyke, who treacherously maroons him in the labyrinthine catacombs underneath the city, where reading books can be genuinely dangerous.

In The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers transports us to a magical world where reading is a remarkable adventure. Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book. We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life!

I did not get into the book until I was half way through. The book became fun once the Booklings came along. This a uniquely strange and delirious book. I find it really hard to described because is like nothing I can remember. I figure how can you go wrong with a book about books and a world that loves books.

The biggest reason I had a hard time getting into the book until the middle was because all the strange names and strange descriptions. I also felt that there were times the description was like watching a movie with too much going on at once and not really knowing what was going on. I reread some scenes over and over.

A world of book lovers and writers who write books that become magically dangerous and some that are just normal readable books. How can you not love a world like that if you are avid reader. The book is very different. Am I glad I read it? Yeah I guess I am. It really for someone with an wide open imagination.