About the first half of this book I though was utterly amazing. It was like something I had never read before and don't think anyone else could do storytelling the way Ende did. The interaction between the "real world" of Bastian reading the Never Ending Story, and the characters in the Never ending Stroy was such that I hanever experienced. However this absolute amazingness seemed to disappear in the later half of the book when Bastian actually is inside The never ending story, somewhat to return at then end when he gets home, but that was kind of to be expected by that point.