If you’ve already read it, you need to read it again.”īeagle knew all this. Fellow fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss called Beagle’s work “the best book I have ever read. Louis Post-Dispatch described the book as feeling “almost as if it were the last fairy tale,” a notion well in keeping with the novel’s ultimately bittersweet tone. Charming, lyrical, theatrical, and poignant above all else, the story of a unicorn’s quest to find and free her people from a miserly king has an enchanting power comparable to anything in the European tradition that inspired it. The greatest of those is The Last Unicorn, originally published in 1968. His may not be as towering a name in fantasy literature as King, Tolkien, or Dahl, but his is the pen behind significant American contributions to the genre. And Roald Dahl was notoriously hostile to both Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Jim Henson’s film of The Witches. Tolkien may have parted with the movie rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but he wasn’t shy in voicing his displeasure with would-be adaptors in his lifetime.
Remember Stephen King’s choice remarks about Stanely Kubrick’s take on The Shining? J.R.R. Yet rather tame, considering some of the things authors have had to say about film adaptations of their work.
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