[Twelve by Diana Wynne Jones] Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones

[James Nicoll]

Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones

http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass
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[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

jdni...@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote in
news:p2o5q2$hmm$1...@reader2.panix.com:

> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>
> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-
> of-glass

A very different (and, INO, better, though I liked both) story than
Miyazaki's movie adaptation.
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[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <XnsA8615428E14...@69.16.179.43>,

Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>jdni...@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote in
>news:p2o5q2$hmm$1...@reader2.panix.com:
>
>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>
>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-
>> of-glass
>
>A very different (and, INO, better, though I liked both) story than
>Miyazaki's movie adaptation.

Hear, hear. The book was about a not-too-standard War of Good
Against Evil. The movie's an anti-war polemic.

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[Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy]

djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
news:p23sA...@kithrup.com:

> In article <XnsA8615428E14...@69.16.179.43>,
> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>jdni...@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote in
>>news:p2o5q2$hmm$1...@reader2.panix.com:
>>
>>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>>
>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-sliver
>>> s- of-glass
>>
>>A very different (and, INO, better, though I liked both) story
>>than Miyazaki's movie adaptation.
>
> Hear, hear. The book was about a not-too-standard War of Good
> Against Evil.

I read it as more a coming of age story than anything else. The good
guys vs bad guys stuff was all secondary to that (to me, at any
rate).

> The movie's an anti-war polemic.
>

All of Miyazaki's work is. He does it well, but he's a one trick
pony. I guess he's had a lot of practice at telling us that War Is
Bad.

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <XnsA861958E3E6...@69.16.179.43>,

Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>news:p23sA...@kithrup.com:
>
>> In article <XnsA8615428E14...@69.16.179.43>,
>> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>jdni...@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote in
>>>news:p2o5q2$hmm$1...@reader2.panix.com:
>>>
>>>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>>>
>>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-sliver
>>>> s- of-glass
>>>
>>>A very different (and, INO, better, though I liked both) story
>>>than Miyazaki's movie adaptation.
>>
>> Hear, hear. The book was about a not-too-standard War of Good
>> Against Evil.
>
>I read it as more a coming of age story than anything else. The good
>guys vs bad guys stuff was all secondary to that (to me, at any
>rate).
>
>> The movie's an anti-war polemic.
>>
>All of Miyazaki's work is. He does it well, but he's a one trick
>pony. I guess he's had a lot of practice at telling us that War Is
>Bad.

Well, he's Japanese, after all. Is he old enough to remember
WWII personally? I am just barely not (born 1942).

[David Johnston]

He was born in 1941. I expect what he remembers is all that rubble
afterward.

[J. Clarke]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:56:27 GMT, djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
wrote:

He was born in 1941, in Tokyo. He got bombed out at least twice, and
he was old enough to remember at least one of the times.

[Lynn McGuire]

On 1/5/2018 9:32 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>
> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass

Howl will forever be etched in my memory as one of Miles's clone's
alternate personalities.

Lynn

[Lawrence Watt-Evans]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:42:06 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
<taus...@gmail.com> wrote:

>djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>news:p23sA...@kithrup.com:
>

>> The movie's an anti-war polemic.
>>
>All of Miyazaki's work is. He does it well, but he's a one trick
>pony. I guess he's had a lot of practice at telling us that War Is
>Bad.

Um. If you can find an anti-war polemic in "My Neighbor Totoro," or
"Kiki's Delivery Service," I'm impressed.




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[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <p2p1dq$1kgs$1...@gioia.aioe.org>,

Good enough. I just wish somebody else, with a slightly
different Weltanshauung, had filmed this book.

[larry]

On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>
> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass

What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?

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and that of others.
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[Ahasuerus]

On Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 7:11:48 AM UTC-5, larry wrote:
> On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
> > Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
> >
> > http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass
>
> What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?3835

[James Nicoll]

In article <p3fhe0$iqq$1...@dont-email.me>, larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote:
>On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>
>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass
>
>What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?
>

From isfdb:

1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
2 Castle in the Air (1990)
3 House of Many Ways (2008)

[Robert Woodward]

In article <p3ft3v$3gc$1...@reader2.panix.com>,

jdni...@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> In article <p3fhe0$iqq$1...@dont-email.me>, larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote:
> >On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
> >> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
> >>
> >> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass
> >
> >What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?
> >
>
> From isfdb:
>
> 1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
> 2 Castle in the Air (1990)
> 3 House of Many Ways (2008)

From the description I found of them, it appears that the main
characters in the first title are merely minor characters in the other
two.

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[Default User]

On Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 11:48:36 AM UTC-6, Robert Woodward wrote:

> > 1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
> > 2 Castle in the Air (1990)
> > 3 House of Many Ways (2008)
>
> From the description I found of them, it appears that the main
> characters in the first title are merely minor characters in the other
> two.

Certainly the case for the second. I don't recall if I read the third.


Brian

[larry]

On 2018-01-14, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <p3fhe0$iqq$1...@dont-email.me>, larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote:
>>On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>>
>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slivers-of-glass
>>
>>What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?
>>
>
> From isfdb:
>
> 1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
> 2 Castle in the Air (1990)
> 3 House of Many Ways (2008)

Thanks. I have the second on my shelf. I have seen the animated
Howl's Moving Castle but haven't read it nor the
the third book. To be recitified.

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote in
news:p3j5ek$9n7$1...@dont-email.me:

> On 2018-01-14, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>> In article <p3fhe0$iqq$1...@dont-email.me>, larry
>> <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote:
>>>On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>>>
>>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slive
>>>> rs-of-glass
>>>
>>>What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?
>>>
>>
>> From isfdb:
>>
>> 1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
>> 2 Castle in the Air (1990)
>> 3 House of Many Ways (2008)
>
> Thanks. I have the second on my shelf. I have seen the animated
> Howl's Moving Castle but haven't read it nor the
> the third book. To be recitified.
>

If you haven't read the first book, note that the movie is a
completely different story in every meaningful way.

[larry]

On 2018-01-15, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote in
> news:p3j5ek$9n7$1...@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 2018-01-14, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>> In article <p3fhe0$iqq$1...@dont-email.me>, larry
>>> <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote:
>>>>On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>>>>
>>>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-slive
>>>>> rs-of-glass
>>>>
>>>>What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?
>>>>
>>>
>>> From isfdb:
>>>
>>> 1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
>>> 2 Castle in the Air (1990)
>>> 3 House of Many Ways (2008)
>>
>> Thanks. I have the second on my shelf. I have seen the animated
>> Howl's Moving Castle but haven't read it nor the
>> the third book. To be recitified.
>>
> If you haven't read the first book, note that the movie is a
> completely different story in every meaningful way.
>

That is the general rule, unfortunately.

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote in
news:p3omg0$ssv$1...@dont-email.me:

> On 2018-01-15, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha
> <taus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> larry <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote in
>> news:p3j5ek$9n7$1...@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> On 2018-01-14, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <p3fhe0$iqq$1...@dont-email.me>, larry
>>>> <ljm...@wightman.ca> wrote:
>>>>>On 2018-01-05, James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Howl's Moving Castle (Howl, book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/cut-you-like-the-tiny-sli
>>>>>> ve rs-of-glass
>>>>>
>>>>>What are the titles of the rest of the Howl series?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From isfdb:
>>>>
>>>> 1 Howl's Moving Castle (1986) also appeared as:
>>>> 2 Castle in the Air (1990)
>>>> 3 House of Many Ways (2008)
>>>
>>> Thanks. I have the second on my shelf. I have seen the
>>> animated Howl's Moving Castle but haven't read it nor the
>>> the third book. To be recitified.
>>>
>> If you haven't read the first book, note that the movie is a
>> completely different story in every meaningful way.
>>
>
> That is the general rule, unfortunately.
>

Very true. The only recent exception at all has been The Expanse.