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Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Ella Enchanted

by Gail Carson Levine
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  • First Published:
  • May 1, 1997, 240 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Sep 1998, 232 pages
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Fred

This book is booring!
Ronald

terrible book
LIZ

I hated it, and dreaded having to read it for my reading teacher. Boring!! I agree with Brittany.
brittany

This book is the worst book in human history if it was the last book in the universe i would not read it because it is that bad.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bomdiggity!!!

Ella Enchanted is definently one of the best books I've ever read. My copy is so worn out, and after I finish it I just want to read it again! Out of 100% I give this book 30,000,000%! 5 stars, definently.
Connie

Ella Enchanted is the best and romantic book i have ever read.It seems like i'm right beside Ella during her long and hard jorney.She had given up <<edited for potential plot spoiler>> Read to find out what happen.
-Connie 4th garde
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Amber - BookBrowse

Hi Katie,

Many people write to us asking us for author email addresses. Where possible, we provide a link to the author's website in the Author's forum, which may provide an email address. Click here for Gail Levine's webpage. I don't show an email address to contact Ms. Levine. Otherwise, the established, albeit slow, method for contacting authors is to send a letter c/o their publisher. For more on this and answers to other frequently asked questions, please visit BookBrowse's FAQ page.

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Sanjana

I loved the book so much it's not even funny. My copy of Ella Enchanted is so worn down that pages are falling out and the spine is all cracked. It's a really neat twist on Cinderella, and of course, I love that story. Also, Char and Ella make such a good couple. ~sighs~ I wanted to be Ella so bad. She isn't the normal "damsel in distress" so many authors love to weave. I also loved the scene with Char catching Ella as she flies down in the banister, right in front of her new family. I also could so vividly picture him laughing and his buttonless doublet flapping...it was amazing.

The movie, on the other hand, looks like xxxx, I swear it does! I mean, Anne Hathaway? Come on, she totally canNOT act! She is (and looks) thirty! She does NOT fit the part of Ella. Hugh Dancy looks like Billy Boyd, and he looks thirty too (he's 27 ~ew!~). He does NOT look like anything I imagined Char to look like. And Hattie looks too much like a dumb blonde, Olive looks like a plump Avril Lavigne, and who the heck is Prince Regent Edgar? I think it should be criminal damage to adapt and completely ruin a perfectly wonderful book. Why do people allow them to completely destroy the hard work Gail Carson Levine did, anyway? If they've changed anything else, then they should be sued. That is just plain plaguerism, to call the movie Ella Enchanted and then create a completely different story.

I didn't rate the book because there was no 10 on the scale of 1 to 5.
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