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a review of INTERWORLD

Harry Potter + Sliders + Peter Pan + 1960s X-Men + Green Lantern Corps
= INTERWORLD



Well, it’s not as bad as it sounds. It was a fun read for the most part. Well, maybe it was because I identified with the character so much. Joey Harker is a boy who’s “directionally challenge”. He got lost in his own house. (Same way I got lost in my own neighborhood. And I still get lost every time I go in Glorietta. I never know which corridor will bring me to Filbars and which one will bring me to G4.)

Anyway, so Joey Harker gets lost in his own town and ends up in an alternate reality and ends up meeting other J/o/e/y Harkers from other realities. He gets recruited to they’re mission, which is to protect the rest of the multiverse from the forces of magic and science.

The other more interesting story is how this story ended up becoming a novel. Neil Gaiman talked about it in his blog; how INTERWORLD was originally supposed to be pitched as an animated movie (and they tried to pitch it to Dreamworks), and it got rejected. Then they wrote the story as a novel in order to explain to movie executives what their idea was all about. And it still got rejected.

Then last year, they pitched the book to published and it finally got picked up and finally, they started to get calls from movie companies (include Dreamworks!)

I don’t know if its because I read about the background of the novel, but there were certain parts which really felt like it was written for the express purpose of explaning certain scene to a studio executive. (Then again, when one tries to explain something to an 8-year old and to an executive, you might end up using really simple words.)

One of the scenes that made me think it was simplified for a studio exec was the penultimate scene where one of the Harkers had to fight the right-hand man of the bad guys; which could’ve been, should’ve been like the set-piece of Qui Jon Gin versus Darth Maul. Instead, it all gets summed up in a page and a half.

Then there was that last scene when Joey’s team gets called for another mission and I could easily imagine how it would be shot like the Super Friends rushing towards the screen.

Of course, since you’re a Disciple of Gaiman you’ll still buy it anyway. Read it because you’ve probably finished re-reading Harry Potter books 1 to 7. Read it because you need your Gaiman-fix. It’ll make a great birthday gift for your nephew or niece or godchild.

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So in the end... tell me what is Interworld about man... lol.. and yes I found your blog budjette ^_^ hehehe

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