Local orphan squatter inside the train station walls obsesses over a creepy drawing machine (AKA: The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a book review by Willie Fowler)
Review does contain spoilers. Enjoy The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a book written and illustrated by Henry Selznick, published January 30th, 2007 and adapted into a movie just 3 3/4 years later on November 23rd, 2011. Summary: The story takes place in the 1930s in Paris, France, following our young protagonist, Hugo Cabret. Hugo is a young, and depressed orphan living within the walls of a Paris train station, stealing whatever he can in order to barely scrape by. Ever since his father died in a fire, and his Uncle Claude had died after getting too tipsy, he has been steadily looking after a broken "automaton." A mechanical device mimicking that of a human, where it could write, draw, perform, and do much more. He does this so he can find his father's final message. Hugo secretly steals parts from a toymaker to fix the automaton, but gets caught, loses his important notebook used to fix the automaton, and tries to earn it back from the old toymaker by helping out in ...