Coraline
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- ISBN13: 9780060575915
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their small girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Amazon.com Review
Coraline lives with her distant parents in part of a huge ancient house–a house so huge that additional people live in it, too… round, ancient ex- actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers (“We trod the boards, luvvy”) and the mustachioed ancient man under the roof (“‘The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,’ said the man upstairs, ‘is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.’”) Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a small rain she becomes bored–so bored that she starts to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that–sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks–opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you’re thinking caringly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, you’re on the incorrect track. Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is far darker, far weirder, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl’s work, it is tasty.
What’s on the additional side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of… people who pronounce her name correctly (not “Caroline”), tasty meals (not like her father’s overblown “recipes”), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-dull) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, but, is her mirrored parents, her “additional mother” and her “additional father”–people who look just like her own parents, but with huge, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin… and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman take in illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, amusing, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) –Karin Snelson
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This psuedo-children’s horror fiction’s something that I wouldn’t recommend to anyone who may be interested in children’s literature or the “YA(Young Adult) genre” for that matter, not that I’d state something like that it’s because it’s ‘too scary’ or any of that cheesy stuff – but it’s just that it is reasonably surprisingly amaturish in its manner of language of an Alice-in-wonderland type of a novel that came out since C.S.Lewis’ fantastic Narnia books– and what is peculiarly weird is that a lot of fantastic acclaim to this book is being agreed that it’s been getting through book reviews as something on the category in par excellence – when it’s really dull – that I can’t help but reflect it’s because all due to that one of persons trendy image stuff going on again linked with books kind of complexion since Jonathan …’er rather, Richard Bach’s psuedo-messiah fiction crap called ‘ILLUSIONS’
if you know what I’m adage.
Not to discredit Neil Gaiman’s exceptional work in the comic book genre- it’s just even reasonably surprising he’d come up to place out something like this that is so featureless and really dull, the characters are as stiff as hell like from a lively cardboard milk carton box cut-out, and really there’s really nothing new here, or exciting in that regard.
What boost this as on league with the trendy-hey-i-read-books-and-its-oh-so-fashionable-with-this-here-Neil Gaiman-book-that-i-hold-in-my-hand categry is because the leader came along on camp with the likes of them fashionable fantasy fiction writers (on this side a small bit on the minor level of Harlan Elison) such as Terry Pratchett, Dean Koontz, and Emma Bull- who’re even close friends and associates with along with Bull’s hubby Will Shetterly (who’ve also done/collaborated on a book of theirs titled Doubleplay), and also they have a composition record unrestricted with Steven Burst, and Bull with The Fabulous Lorraine as the Flash Girls (who’s “The Herring Song” for one thing that I know of is a take on the 70’s christian vocal group called the 2nd Second Chaptr of Acts’ “Easter Song” which is written by its chief vocal composer Anne Herring- as a treatise and mockish parody) -kinda like on par with such indie-releases like persons of occult ‘goth-artist’ Diamanda Gallas.
As I’ve stated, this book being in a trendy-complexion schtick of such along certain fictionary literary works that are coming out these days ever since J.K. Rowling have come up with his now-classic HARRY POTTER series — obviously this one’s reasonably trying to cash-in along with the market and vying for a possition somewhere at the top.
After all that’s been said, anyhow if you still find that you’re still a small bit curious about the book and you’d like to read it, just borrow it then and spend your money on something else; take it from a name who’ve already wasted his $5.99 for this piece of senselessly pointless bore-fest.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
…this book seems to be a rip off of Clive Barker’s “Thief of Permanently” …which is a much better book…I recommend that as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Most people that I know have read this book say it is fantastic, spooky, and appealing, but I don’t agree with them. I reflect this book is a excellent book, but just not the type of book for me. Some people reflect the whole thought of a alternant universe with an evil monster for a main charater is cool,I on the additional hand don’t. You might like this book,like my friends, or might despise it, like me.
-M.E.P. *_*
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Coraline had to have been one of the worst books Ive read. I dont know, maybe Im to ancient for this type of book but I am a huge fan of Gaiman and I read everything by him. Its hard to judge that Mr. Gaiman wrote one of my favorite tales, the Sandman, and turns around and writes this mess. Ive read American Gods wich was about a 3 star, Excellent Omens, wich I liked alot, probably a 4 1/2 star and every Sandman book out there. Mr. Gaiman really accelerates in the comic world. His death series, Murder Mysteries along with the sandman series are definetly looking into if you have not read them.
A name said on the back take in I judge that “Coraline will finally surpass Alice in Wonderland” must have lost his marbles. Not even close!!! If I wasnt such a Gaiman fan, I would have rated this a 1 star.
Gaiman spends to much time building up the tale only to disappoint you with a fleeting plot. I could go on and on but like I said, not a book for adults.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
My English I class read this book last April, and no one really liked it, including me. The book isn’t that catchy, it’s just unadorned creepy. Coraline enters another dimenson through a door, which just beyond is the weirdest world she’s ever been in and I, a avid reader, had never read anything like. Though some people may like the children in the closet’s souls locked inside marbles, the “mother” wanting Coraline to sew on button eyes, and the hand of the mother that sounds like something off the Adam’s family tree, I (nor the seventy additional kids in English I) didn’t find it intresting or amusing, but weird and demented.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5