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Title: Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 0-380-80734-3 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (158 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Smart, Funny, Scary Choice for All Ages
Comment: Coraline is a smart, polite, and likeable little girl. When she moves into a large house with her parents, she entertains herself by exploring. When she discovers a locked door, sensible Coraline asks about it, and her mother opens it to reveal a brick wall and explains that it is left from when the house was divided into apartments.
When the brick wall vanishes one day, Coraline discovers another realm. It's a realm where the cat can talk, where dogs attend theater performances and eat chocolates, and where she enters the home of her Other Mother and Other Father, who want Coraline to stay with them forever and ever. Coraline opts to go back home, but she discovers that her mother and father are missing, trapped inside the world of the Other Parents.
Coraline explains, as she ventures back through the passageway to rescue her parents, that "when you're scared, but you still do it anyway, that's brave."
This book draws the reader into a world that is wiity, entertaining, and delightfully creepy. Dave McKean's black-and-white illustrations are appropriately eerie and add an extra dimension to the text. This haunting tale is an excellent choice for the reader of scary stories who wants something that will stay in the shadowy corners of the mind long afterward.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Wonderfully Witty Spooky Tale!
Comment: I feel in love with Neil Gaiman's writing with Neverwhere, and have read most of his books since then. While I was in the bookstore last night I saw this book, and even though it is for ages 8 and up, I thought, "Why Not", and purchased it. I am glad I did, it was a great story. I finished a more lengthy novel late last night and picked this up as some light reading before I started yet another lengthy novel, and I was pleasantly rewarded. This story about a young girl Coraline and her adventures in exploring lead her into some tough spots, but along the way we have a great entertaining ride, that IS spooky at times (I know when I was 8 I would have been scared, so maybe it would be better suited for children a little older), and wonderfully witty! I love the way Neil Gaiman writes, and especially the dialogues between characters, they seem to have such a great report that many books, young adult and adult alike, lack. The eerie illustrations by Dave McKean are well suited for this book, and added a little excitement as I quickly turned though the pages to see what would become of Coraline!
Rating: 5
Summary: Trippy
Comment: I only slept two hours the night I read "Coraline." The first few hours I read and finished the book; the next couple hours I couldn't sleep, reveling in the creative world this book took me too that no other book has. There was not a cliche anywhere: not in story, language, mood, characters. Instead we have scuttling hands, fortune-telling mice, button eyes, and worlds disolving into nothingness on the outskirts.
The unflappability of the young girl protagonists threatens to make the book too low key (as some reviewers have accused), but instead, I think it adds to the odd, vague tone. Also accurate in the negative reviews is their observation that there's a lack of background for this world's existence and for the characters in it. I respond, hallelejah. How many thousands of books are ruined by too much exposition. This book gets to the dark, otherworldly story pronto. Its world is assumed to exist and needs no justification.
Stephen King has never creeped me out like this. I'm reading this book to my seven year old daughter (against the advice of my wife) and loaning it to my tough guy, non-reading friend.
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Title: The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 038097827X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 1565041992 Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman ISBN: 0380789019 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman, John Bolton ISBN: 156971620X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: stardust by Neil Gaiman ISBN: 0060934719 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 19 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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