false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175480072m/519112.jpg 519112 12 This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (<i>Edward Scissorhands</i>, <i>Beetlejuice</i>, <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, <i>The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories</i> is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. 466 book 5 11 1997 The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories total:2246|5:962|4:767|3:416|2:95|1:6| 2246 9322 2826 237 4 3 false false Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 01:37:31 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 11:02:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jan 22 10:55:13 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 10:55:13 -0800 2008
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 ill...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 20:07:27 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 20:27:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 22 09:16:35 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 09:19:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 13:41:51 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:41:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 01:15:48 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 16:44:35 -0700 2009
Most of the poems are about children who are different, mostly different in appearances, and most of these children have a hard time coping with these...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 13 04:49:31 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 14:09:45 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 15 14:14:32 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 14:14:44 -0700 2009 This book will remind you of Edward Gorey. The poems and illustrations have a similar amusingly gruesome quality. I would say that Burton's poems are a bit more adult then anything I have seen by Gorey.
...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:32:26 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 09:00:25 -0800 2009 (I know it's a cliche, but still I have to say this)

I already saw all of the Stain Boy and other characters Flash animation files sometimes ago in some website I long forgotten.
But this book is a hundred times better.

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The story that provides the title of the book is about a little boy that is eaten by his parents. Th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 08:05:52 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 08:06:39 -0800 2008 1 Era uma vez um palito que se apaixonou por uma fósfora. Tinham tudo em comum, digo eu. Eram os dois altos, magros, bonitos e sentiam um grande prazer em gostar de alguém. Tanto gostaram um do outro que a situação ficou, chamemos-lhe assim, fogosa. Tão fogosa que incendiaram. Os...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 09:41:17 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 08 14:51:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 10:11:27 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 10:13:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 01:21:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 10:04:04 -0700 2009
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For Halloween
Oyster boy decided to go as human
(Oyster Boy steps out)

Stick Boy noticed that his Christmas tree looked healthier
Than he did
(Stick Boy’s festive season)

Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri May 08 15:51:33 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:54:42 -0700 2009 +10 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 11:36:19 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 11:38:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 28 07:58:24 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 08:11:04 -0700 2008 But I still can't help but dig this cute, psuedo-goth misery of The Melancholy Death....
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Sadly, it comes out lacking so badly that the only reason I can see that it actually got published in hardback and ended up in my local library is that Tim Burton's name was on it to sell it.

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