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Coraline Review,
This review is from: Coraline By Neil Gaiman (Paperback)
Coraline...It's a children's book that's not totally a children's book...It's a horror novel that's not totally horror. Above all, Coraline is a great, entertaining, well constructed novel.
I really enjoyed Coraline. Coraline is a well developed character, especially for a children's book. She is independent, yet craves love and affection. She has a vivid imagination, but is bored by her normal surroundings...until she goes through the secret door that is. Coraline encounters many different characters on her adventure, and none of them are bland. Her neighbors are interesting, and the versions of them on the other side of the door are even more so. Her "Other Mother" is a well-formed monster of a villain, even without a whole lot of description. (I could do a whole discussion here on Freud and the Unheimliche and how scary that can be, but I'll spare you all). Bottom Line: Coraline is a must read for more than just children or fans of horror novels. Trev @ [...]
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Darcus @ Starcrossed,
This review is from: Coraline By Neil Gaiman (Paperback)
Coraline was very creepy. And I loved it. I can only imagine what a kid thinks as they read it. I found it creepy and unsettling as an adult.When the movie first came out, I wanted to watch it very badly. It's the type of movie that I love and I couldn't pass it up. I got the chance to watch just a little of it (sadly, not all), but it was enough to make me want to read the children's book that it was based on. Coraline was a creepy read that I will definitely come back to in the future. Maybe when I have children of my own, I will fill their Halloween nights with tales of the 'Other Mother', her eyes made of black buttons, skin the color of bone, alternate reality, and a talking black cat. Oh...and a circus of mice. I love it.
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In a perfect world...,
This review is from: Coraline By Neil Gaiman (Paperback)
In "Coraline," a little girl walks into a parallel world where her other mother cooks better than her real mother and desires for Coraline to leave her world behind. However, Coraline has to agree to have buttons sewn on her to replace her eyes.Coming off reading something heavy (or profound, for "heavy" may connote something bad to some people; still, I prefer the simpler word "heavy"), I was thrown into some sort of genre shock transitioning to "Coraline." I felt like, perhaps, I'm the wrong age group for this. Some works are not able to transcend age boundaries and the beginning of this story made me think that this is one of those works. The question then arose: When reading, do you use a different set of standards for different kinds of written works? Or should there be standards at all? As the story went along, however, I began to change my mind. I am the right age group for this. If not for the fact that I am truly a child at heart, I am also aunt to three children who can be a handful, demanding attention in the midst of seemingly adult concerns. They are the same lovely creations that I had to turn my back on because there are responsibilities I deemed more pressing. The story is an easy and enjoyable read. We encounter a touch of the fantastic in the possibility that a more perfect version of us adults can be better at loving our children than we simply because they pay attention and we, we sometimes take for granted. So, perhaps, I applied an even higher set of standards to books primarily intended for children because, if they were to transcend age boundaries, that is a broad spectrum of interests we're talking about right there. Besides, don't children hold all adults to a stricter (albeit more fun) standard anyway? I'm glad to inform, however, that "Coraline" passed with flying colors. P.S. And how cool is it that Coraline is preternaturally articulate? Like, you know, beyond coolness!
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