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Title: Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean ISBN: 0-380-97778-8 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (157 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Creepy and funny!
Comment: So far, I haven't read anything by Neil Gaiman that I didn't enjoy, and Coraline is no different. This is one of the most charming books I've read recently, and like everything else written by Gaiman, it is witty and funny, yet creepy and disturbing at the same time. And while Coraline was written for children, I haven't yet heard any adult complain about it. I haven't asked any kids what they thought about it, but I'm sure kids would have just as much fun as your average adult, if not even more (though maybe not as a bedtime story...).
Coraline is the story of a young girl. A bored, polite, smart little girl, who goes exploring on a rainy day, and obviously runs into trouble. A lot of trouble. But there's more to "Coraline" than that. Gaiman has a wonderful way with words, which never ceases to amaze me (and of course, causes me to ask myself how come I can't write like that), and his dark sense of humor and witty simplicity makes reading "Coraline" a treat for anyone (for example: "She might want something to love... Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. Its hard to tell with creatures like her.").
You simply can't help but to fall in love with Coraline, and the entire book. And obviously, Dave McKean's artwork makes this book even more fun to read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining, but Fluffy
Comment: "Coraline", by Neil Gaiman, is a children's book in the tradition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "The Chronicles of Narnia", in that the main character passes through a portal into a strange and wonderful world, has some adventures and comes back a wiser individual.
So why bother writing it again?
Gaiman has populated Coraline's world with two exasperated and inattentive parents, whose neglect seems to border on child abuse, two sad, mad old women who once were actresses (who are also inattentive and dismissive) and an old man who claims to be training mice to play musical instruments. In all, it's easy to see why the poor dear would be depressed and bored and so open to the possibility of exploring the mysterious world beyond the bricked-up doorway she finds.
On the other side are mirror images of all the people who live in Coraline's flat, weird images with paper white skin and buttons for eyes, as well as a talking cat who aids her. The "other mother' wants Coraline to stay forever and kidnaps Coraline's real parent's in order to coerce her. Instead, Coraline musters her courage and saves the day, her parents, and three dead children whose ghosts were locked in an old closet, having been captured by the evil critter decades before.
I appreciate Gaiman's attempt at updating the concept, making the story a little darker and the protagonist a little more resourceful, but the gothic elements didn't really work for me, as they seemed too forced, to dark for dark's sake. Overall, I was entertained, I enjoyed the book, but I was not mesmerized. I was not dragged in, as I was with Charlie and his adventures in the Chocolate Factory or the Great Glass Elevator, or Alice, or Milo.
I realize that today's readers may not have read the old standards, so the similarities to Roald Dahl, Norton Juster, Lewis Carroll, et al.,may not seem so obvious and distracting to them. Perhaps it's better left as a book for children.
Rating: 5
Summary: !CORALINE!
Comment: This book Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a creapy,suspinceful
fanticy book. This book will send a chill down your back and
through your shoes. Its about a girl who has a pretty strange life as it is, but one turn ofa secrate doors noob will trap her
in a second worled or will it? As she see's things she's never
seen befor she plays a game to save her parents life.So read this book today!
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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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