![]() In it, Hoffman praises his skill and genius, not to mention the value of the book. Maybe now that I've actually read the novel, I can make persevere to the end.īefore the text itself, there's a.it's not really an epigraph or epigram, it's too short to be an Author's Note-well, maybe it's the right length for that, I guess we should go with that. I get bored, or distracted, or just decide it's just a mess of a show. I have never watched the ballet, or finished any of the various adaptations. But a novel started it all? What rock was I living under to have missed that?Ģ. ![]() Obviously, I knew about the ballet and a handful of the adaptations of it. Until I got the newsletter from Fahrenheit Press talking about this release, I had no idea that this novel existed. I'm part of the probably 5-15% of Western Culture who needed the above, many of you probably rolled your eyes at me including that. The war between the Nutcracker and the mice-in particular, the seven-headed Mouse King, goes back to when the Nutcracker was human, and wages on. But this is no ordinary nutcracker: it's magical-it's a prince trapped in a wooden figure until he's freed (like Belle's Beast).Īt night, this Nutcracker comes to life (like Buzz, Woody, and the rest) to do battle against the mice in the girl's palace. This is a story about a little girl who gets a nutcracker from her toy-making godfather. ![]() ![]() This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader. ![]()
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