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Description
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.
Critiques
"Debut author Morgenstern doesn't miss a beat in this smashing tale of greed, fate, and love... a giant, magical story destined for bestsellerdom. This is an electric debut on par with Special Topics in Calamity Physics." ( Publishers Weekly)
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 22/09/2011
The circus of your dreams
This was one of the most wonderful books I've ever heard. A feast for the ears. The story is fantastically imaginative, the prose is richly visual, I could see all the details of the circus and smell the popcorn and caramel. I wanted to visit the circus myself! The narrator does a wonderful job bringing everything to life. I didn’t want it to end. Once it was over, I couldn’t wait to listen again. This is everything an audiobook should be - try it, you won't be sorry.
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- Suzn F
- 18/09/2011
Dreamlike Experience to Savor
This story envelops the reader. I cannot think of another book I have so thoroughly relished. With each and every sentence the author invites you to feel, taste and smell the Night Circus.This circus is like nothing else, beyond imagination. Yet I could see myself there, and although the circus is in only black and white, I was immersed in color and texture. Listening to this story is like eating the most amazing meal in the most beautiful placed you can imagine while sitting next to someone with whom you are infatuated. What a wonderful dream, I want to return and feel it all again, so sad when the book ended. And the narration brings it all alive, kudos to both author and narrator.
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- Grant
- 18/04/2012
Something about this book bothered me.
It was a pleasant diversion. And well crafted. But for some reason, I was not pulled into this book as others have been. Jim Dale's performance, as usual, was great. But perhaps I would have liked it more if it had been read by a woman. Maybe the thing that bothers me most about this book is that the premise was more mechanical than emotional. Maybe I did not cotton to the rather cryptic and largely unexplained (until the end, and even then not very well explained) bargain struck at the beginning of the book. Maybe the characters were less than three-dimensional. Maybe it just felt like it was made up as it went along ??? like a children's impromptu story. I don't know. All I do know is that The Night Circus did not thrill me. And I really did want to be thrilled.
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- Victoria
- 19/09/2011
Deliciously Imaginative
This beautifully descriptive book could not come out during a better season when the imagination is already a tingle for Halloween. This world created by Ms. Morgenstern rolls out the red carpet for characters are rich and strong in their own right. This is a book that will always be on my iPod.
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- Michael
- 28/09/2012
The Circus is Coming!
Within moments of beginning this recording my toes began curling with pleasure and I felt cozy comforters being tucked in around me. This is an extraordinary story with extraordinary narration. Some might describe this story as dark, but a story which is uniformly uplifting can not be dark. Some describe the story as a romance, but a romance is seldom as nuanced. Is it a fantasy? Is it an allegory? Is it a retelling? It does not really matter, for this is a very good story. There is little action and little romance but a bouquet of delightful imagery. I found the story evoking archetypal memories that were familiar and comforting. If you prefer a fast moving story with lots of action, this is not the book for you. I loved the images, the slow even pace, and especially the circus. I suspect this book has forever changed the way I will feel whenever I think of a circus.
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- Theodore
- 04/01/2012
It does feel magical
The narrator made this book for me. The story itself is a pretty cool, I like the concept and it was just plain fun to listen to. I think the pace of the story slows down a lot of times and as much as some of the other characters were developed, I could see greater development still being done or more side plots being created to compensate for the rather slow pace of the story sometimes. Still though, fascinating book to listen to and you really do get a sense that you are in a magical place...
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- Joe
- 02/07/2012
I had high hopes for this one - unfortunately.
I don't normally read these kinds of books, but the reviews were great. A lot of listeners loved the book. I didn't. The story had a lot of promise, but the characters that ended up being the ones focused on had a good beginning, a poor conclusion and a soft middle-story. The descriptions were good, but didn't add too much to the plot of the story. There was also a weird digression into the occult that added nothing to the story and was a little annoying. The narrator was excellent; the story itself had promise. The descriptions were good but didn't build the story as well as they could have.
For me, this was a case of a bad fit. It's a case of "everything is not for everyone." You may enjoy this book. I wouldn't recommend the book, though.
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- Pam
- 21/09/2011
Magic
A complex story, it goes from locations in time to locations in the world. It is a story of love and of hubris. There are secrets that have you hanging- why? what is going on? It is a real world, fully realized, of things that cannot exist, but do. Add to that Mr. Dale's inimitable style and voice characterizations, and this is a winner. This is one of my best books of the year- audio or written.
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- L. deHart
- 20/09/2011
Wonder and Curiousity
I just finished the Night Circus. The story style reminded me a little of Neil Gaiman, who I think is a wonderful writer in the genre of the "curiousier and curiousier." This story weaves around you from the start, and in the end leaves you wishing to open your mind to all sorts of possibilities. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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- Dayle
- 03/05/2015
Meh
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I tried. I really did. After halfway thru I gave up. It just did not grab me. I kept waiting for something to coalesce with the story, the characters, but it just left me with loose ends. Great premise. Great characters, but too muddy for my taste. Im aware that not all readers are the same, and obviously many loved it. Fantastic narration....
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- papercuts1
- 15/02/2012
Ein grandioses Hörbuch für alle Sinne!
Fazit:
Ein zauberhaft-geheimnisvolles Hörbuch, das nicht durch die Handlung, sondern die überwältigende Atmosphäre seinen Reiz erhält und überzeugt. THE NIGHT CIRCUS ist kein actionreiches Magier-Duell, auch wenn der Klappentext das glauben macht. Diese Erwartungen werden enttäuscht. Es geht nicht um das, was passiert, sondern wie es passiert. Es geht um den Zirkus selbst, um seine wundersamen Geschöpfe, und was sie in uns auslösen. Der Hörer betritt eine verwunschene, zerbrechlich scheinende Welt der Magie und kann sich gar nicht satt sehen an ihrer Schönheit und ihren Details. Wer den ‘Cirque des Rêves betritt’, verlässt ihn nur ungern. Es ist wie das Auftauchen aus einem schönen, mystriösen Traum, dem man verwundert nachhängt, mit einem Gefühl von zarter Melancholie.
Zum Sprecher:
Jim Dale ist, um es kurz zu machen, fantastisch! Seine ruhige, doch leidenschaftliche Sprechweise ist genauso melodiös und geheimnisumwittert, wie das Thema es verlangt. Mit seiner Interpretation der Figuren und sorgsam gelesenen, üppigen Beschreibungen holt Dale das Letzte aus dem Hörbuch heraus. Es spricht den Zuhörer geradezu in einen Rausch. Ohne großartig die Stimmtiefe zu variieren, gibt er mühelos männlichen als auch weiblichen Figuren ihre eigene Persönlichkeit. Die Murray-Zwillinge würzt er mit einem schottisch anmutenden Akkzent, an den ich mich gewöhnen musste, mich letztendlich aber verliebte. Man kann spüren, dass Dale lange Sprech- und Lebenserfahrung in die Waagschale wirft und große Freude an seiner Arbeit mit dem Buch hat. Eine perfekte Verbindung von Geschichte und Geschichtenerzähler. Grandios!
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- Mikka Liest
- 25/02/2017
Le Cirque des Rêves
Der Nachtzirkus kommt ohne Vorwarnung. Jeder beliebige Ort auf der Welt. Jede beliebige Zeit. Auf einmal ist er einfach da, über Nacht, wo er gestern noch nicht war, mit seiner Vielzahl von Zelten, deren Inhalte dem Zuschauer erscheinen wie wahrgewordene Träume. Ein Garten aus Eis. Ein Wolkenlabyrinth. In Flaschen eingeschlossene Erinnerungen. Illusionisten und Wahrsager und Akrobaten, die zu fliegen scheinen.
Le Cirque des Rêves: der Zirkus der Träume. Er öffnet mit Einbruch der Dunkelheit und schließt beim ersten Licht. Ein paar Tage bleibt er, dann ist er eines Morgens plötzlich verschwunden, spurlos. 'Rêveurs' nennen sich die Menschen, die eine unbestimmte Sehnsucht dazu treibt, dem Zirkus zu folgen, wohin auch immer er geht - eine Gemeinschaft von Träumern.
Als ich das Buch und das Hörbuch heute Nacht beendete, konnte ich diese Sehnsucht gut nachempfinden, denn auch ich spürte sofort eine Art schmerzlichen Verlustes, dass ich die Welt des Nachtzirkus' auf immer verlassen sollte.
Ja, ich bin ein Rêveur.
Es gibt Bücher, die werden von einer komplexen Handlung voller unerwarteten Wendungen vorangetrieben, und die Spannung peitscht einen sozusagen durch die Seiten. Und dann gibt es Bücher wie dieses, in deren zauberhafte Atmosphäre man sich bedingungslos fallen lassen muss. "Der Nachtzirkus" ist in der Tat wie ein in Worte gebannter Traum, in dem die Dinge nicht immer chronologisch verlaufen oder auf den ersten Blick Sinn ergeben, aber immer einen Hauch von Magie verströmen.
Die schiere Originalität hat mich umgehauen. Alles ist möglich, und der Leser entdeckt immer wieder Neues am Zirkus der Träume. Ich fühlte mich wie ein Kind, das das erste Mal einen Jahrmarkt besucht und es kaum erwarten kann, alle Stände zu besuchen und alle Süßigkeiten zu kosten. Aber ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass das Buch nicht für jeden Leser 'funktioniert', daher würde ich eine Leseprobe bzw. Hörprobe empfehlen.
Die Charaktere fand ich wunderbar. Sie sind so vielfältig und zauberhaft wie der Zirkus selbst, und auch die Nebencharaktere werden mit liebevollen Details geschildert. Die Liebesgeschichte steht für einen Großteil des Buches weniger im Zentrum, als man nach dem Klappentext erwarten würde, aber sie ist dennoch wunderschön und unverzichtbar für die Geschehnisse. Besonders gegen Ende bekommt sie immer mehr Bedeutung.
Erin Morgenstern hat wirklich eine ganz außergewöhnliche literarische 'Stimme', die manchmal so schön ist, dass ich einen Satz einfach mehrmals lesen und hören musste.
Zitat:
"The striped canvas sides of the tent stiffen, the soft surface hardening as the fabric changes to paper. Words appear over the walls, typeset letters overlapping hand-written text. Celia can make out snatches of Shakespearean sonnets and fragments of hymns to Greek goddesses as the poetry fills the tent. It covers the walls and the ceiling and spreads out over the floor. And then the tent begins to open, the paper folding and tearing. The black stripes stretch out into empty space as their white counterparts brighten, reaching upward and breaking apart into branches.
»Do you like it?« Marco asks, once the movement settles and they stand within a darkened forest of softly glowing, poem-covered trees."
Das Hörbuch fand ich einfach wunderbar. Jim Dale ist meiner Meinung nach die perfekte Stimme für diese Geschichte, denn er findet immer wieder neue stimmliche Nuancen für die verschiedenen Charaktere und vermittelt die Atmosphäre so großartig, dass sich ein echtes Gänsehaut-Gefühl einstellt. Normalerweise höre ich Hörbücher eigentlich nie mehrmals, aber dieses werde ich sicher irgendwann nochmal hören.
Fazit:
Vergesst den im Klappentext versprochenen Wettkampf auf Leben und Tod am besten erstmal. Auch die Liebesgeschichte verläuft dann doch ganz anders, als dieser erwarten lässt. Aber das heißt mitnichten, dass das Buch nicht gut wäre.
Es lebt weniger von seiner Handlung als von seiner dichten, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes fantastischen Atmosphäre. Ob man es liebt oder hasst, hängt sicher davon ab, inwieweit man sämtliche Erwartungen ablegen und sich einfach in die Geschichte fallenlassen kann, aber in meinen Augen lohnt es sich, wenn man es tut. Ich war voll und ganz verzaubert und bin unglaublich beeindruckt von der atemberaubenden Originalität.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Lily
- 16/02/2019
Jim Dale ♡
I simply love Jim Dale reading books. I immensely enjoyed him reading the Harry Potter books. And I also enjoyed him reading this book. I really liked the book although I assume it's sometimes easier to follow all the time lapses if you read the book instead of listening to it. But if you read it you don't have the pleasure to listen to Jim Dale. So in total a really recommendable listening experience
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- melanie posselt
- 05/01/2013
100 Punkte!!!!!!!
Jim Dale ist einfach ein wahnsinns Sprecher und die Geschichte ein Genuss. Ich habe das Buch mittlerweile schon mind. 3 Mal gehört und es diversen Freunden weiterempfohlen.
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