It Should Have Ended Sooner
Michael Ende's The NeverEnding Story ...one of my all-time favorite movies...finally found in a book form! What I never realized about this story was the fact that the movie was only based on the first third of the book. Say what?! When I found that out I couldn't wait to read it and find out what wasn't included in the film version. Needless to say, I will stick with the movie from now on. The NeverEnding Story follows the journey of Bastian Balthazar Bux as he reads a book, The NeverEnding Story , about a world, Fantastica, that is dying. He travels along with Atreyu in his search for the one thing that can cure the illness that the Childlike Empress is suffering from. Atreyu's search eventually leads him to the discovery that only a human child can save the Empress and Fantastica from the Nothing. This is where Bastian comes in. Once he enters Fantastica and gives the Childlike Empress her cure, things change. This is where t...