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Title: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy : and Other Stories by Tim Burton ISBN: 0-688-15681-9 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 05 November, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (83 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Happily Depressing
Comment: I love this book, and Tim Burton. He is a brilliant director and this book shows his skills as an author also. This book is comedic and depressing all at the same time. He takes stories that are very sad and tragic and makes them seem funny. It's a great book, with great poetry that will make you sad and amused all at once, it will make you laugh, cry, smile, frown, but mostly make you want to read it again and again. Well, 'till next time. Later.
Rating: 4
Summary: Twisted and Delicious
Comment: I read this all in one sitting and thought it was a wonderful, twisted blast of sardonic fun. I've always appreciated Burton's odd and dark sense of humor, so I felt perfectly at home within the pages of this little book. It's a bit pricey for the length, but I got over it.
However, unless your kids are as weird as I was as a kid, I probably wouldn't make it bed-time fare for the young'uns. If you're a fan of calming hysterical children freaked out by dreams about the boy with nails in his eyes, then by all means...
Rating: 3
Summary: Funny as all get-out.
Comment: Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Morrow, 1997)
Someone needs to explain this to me and fast, 'cause I don't get it: how is it that bad poetry (and yes, folks, this is truly bad) and art that looks like a second-rate Edward Gorey ripoff (Burton is not the illustrator that he is the sculptor and animator) can be so insanely funny? I am completely at a loss for why I liked this anywhere near as much as I did.
Let's face it, if you squint right while watching The Nightmare Before Christmas, it's obvious even in Burton's finest work that the specter of Edward Gorey looms large over Burton's material; it has never been more obvious than it is here. Many of his characters even seem to have the same basic brushstrokes Gorey used in his illustrations. Which is not to say they're bad; they just look like Edward Gorey work. Not even as blurred as Bacon's famous study of Pope Pius.
And the verse? Absolute doggerel. Even conceding the idea that Burton is using Gerard Manley Hopkins-esque sprung rhythm (which he's not, because sprung rhythm does, at least, HAVE a rhythm), the implementation is so amateurish that it's impossible despite the rhymes to call this anything resembling poetry.
but good living Christ on a crutch, is this book funny. Morbid, twisted, insane, gut-churning (despite the pretty cartoons, folks, this is not one to buy for the kiddies; flip through the title story for a good example of why), and full of laughs. One almost gets the idea Burton was going for a place as the anti-Dr. Seuss. Little vignettes about characters who fade in and out like Dish Network reception in a typhoon, popping up unexpectedly here and there and doing exactly what you were hoping they wouldn't.
If you are at all a fan of Tim Burton, this is a must-read. If you're not, you're probably going to notice the faults and not find what lies beneath them. ***
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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: Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The-Holiday Ed. : and Other Stories by Tim Burton ISBN: 0060526491 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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: 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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Title:The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) ASIN: 6305949980 Publisher: Touchstone Video Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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