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Title: Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The-Holiday Ed. : and Other Stories by Tim Burton ISBN: 0-06-052649-1 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: macabre humour for a "gorey" mind
Comment: immediately laughed and fell in love with this book. if you like black lipstick or nail polish, the cure or beetlejuice, this one's for you. it gets four stars only because it was much too short.
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this book... my friends will get it for Christmas!
Comment: The book isn't near thick enough for me, for I laughed out loud and wanted to continue turning the pages to yet another bolt of humor... the drawings are great. Sweet yet sick in a happy kind of way. Thank you Tim Burton for helping me keep my brain wide open and childlike in my creative thinking! I have purchased 3 Oyster Boy books for Christmas presents.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dark Humor: A Great addition to a Tim Burton Collection
Comment: I just bought this book for a friend of mine; we share an odd sense of humor, and an odder appreciation for humor of the darker shades...I have added it to my wish list, and hope to see it under the Christmas tree, this year.
However, fair warning...If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Burton's world, and are thinking this would be a great kids' book, then please read through a few of the stories & poems, before buying the book. Or, you could just pay attention to the title: Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. This does not really lead one to thoughts of a standard Christmas story, in my opinion. The title is really a good indicator of the humor found within.
If you can find humor in the odd, and the macabre, ala Gorey's Ashly Crumb Tinies, then you will enjoy this book. If you are looking for just another Christmas bedtime story for you five year old, please put this book back on the shelf, pick up "The Nihgt Before Christmas", and save yourself a little shock. Then after you've read your child to sleep with sugar plumb visions, come back to this book.
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Title: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy : and Other Stories by Tim Burton ISBN: 0688156819 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 05 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Creepy Susie : And 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong ISBN: 0345433017 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cat with a Really Big Head, and One Other Story that Isn't as Good by Roman Dirge ISBN: 0943151589 Publisher: SLG Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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Title: Everything Can Be Beaten by Jhonen Vasquez, Chancre Scolex, Chancre Solex, Crab Scrambly ISBN: 0943151651 Publisher: Slave Labor Publications Pub. Date: 07 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas by Frank Thompson ISBN: 0786853786 Publisher: Disney Editions Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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