Howl's Moving Castle
| Title: | Howl's Moving Castle |
| Author: | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Series: | Howls Moving Castle (1) |
| Copyright: | 1991 |
| Ranking: | ?Unranked |
| Binding: | paperback |
| LibraryThing: | Title:Howl's Moving Castle WorkId 5806 |
| Type: | Owned |
| Read: | 2009-04-20 |
Thoughts
Re-read this in preparation for "The House of Many Ways", and enjoyed it all over again. I like how none of the characters is perfect, but you like them anyway. I love, of course, the way the fairy-tale trope of "the eldest of three fails first and worst" is turned on its head.
I actually like the way this author doesn't explain all the rules of magic. I know some people prefer their fantasy with very rigid rules for magic, following the inverse of Clarke's Law: magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology. But I prefer a certain amount of mystery and wonder in my magic; not that the magic is unlimited and anything goes, but that it is a Craft rather than a Science.