Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Chadwick Ginther - Monday Sep 29 2008 10:42 am
Posted in: Reviews, SciFi & Fantasy
Bod (Nobody) Owens was raised in a graveyard--a curious place to spend the formative years of one's life. Unless, that is, you're given life in a novel.
The Graveyard Book is scary like Gaiman's Neverwhere, but here the frights are tempered with the whimsy of Stardust, which is a good thing, as this is, after all, a book meant for younger readers. But like everything Gaiman writes, The Graveyard Book will also be enjoyed by his entire audience, which is considerable, given the many media his creativity stretches into. The Graveyard Book, like each of Neil's works, is wholly its own, and at least a portion of his audience will claim this book as "Theirs". Their favourite creation, by their favourite writer.
Each ghostly character is introduced with not only their name, but the dates of their birth and death, and an epitaph, an interesting conceit that could grow tiresome in lesser hands but never does here. And speaking of names, there's the Ghouls. Ahhh, the Ghouls. First we are introduced to the Duke of Westminster, Honourable Archibald Fitzhugh, Bishop of Bath and Wells and then later the Emperor of China and the 33rd President of the United States (it was Harry S. Truman if you're curious).
It's hard on occasion to read some of Neil's younger novels, because I am nagged by the feeling that they were not written for me. But just when I feel about to grouse over it, Neil hooks me with something so very...well, "Neil" is the only way to put it. And I smile, and think maybe this book was written for me after all.
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In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller "Coraline," Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised b...
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Neil Gaiman is the critically acclaimed and award-winning creator of the Sandman series of graphic novels, author of the novels Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, Stardust, and Neverwhere, the s...
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Master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a breathtaking collection of tales for younger readers that may chill or amuse, but that always embrace the unexpected:Humpty Dumpty's sister hires a private...
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Helena is about to embark on a most amazing journey.Raised in a family of circus performers, she's always dreamed of leading a more ordinary life. But when haunting music draws her into a strange a...
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Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands o...
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In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the vill...
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Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk.From that moment forward he i...
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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels ...
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Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider...
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Winner of the 2002 Nebula Award.Winner of the 2002 Hugo Award.Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he le...
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Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, w...
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In Neil Gaiman's richly imagined fiction, anything is possible. And the proof is in the telling in this extraordinary collection of short stories. Discover within these pages miraculous inventions ...
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DC Comics is proud to present the third volume of the comics classic THE SANDMAN in Absolute format! The third of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 3 collects i...
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