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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Start date: December 21, 2011

Finish date: December 30, 2011

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Sep 14, 2010 Wendy rated it liked it

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It was a bit confusing at first, and then I just lost interest in it about 1/2 way through. After a few days, I picked it up again and it seemed to get better. Definitely a different book from what I usually read. I found myself really using my imagination to try to picture what it must have been like for Bod to live in a graveyard and to visualize the things that were described throughout the book. I really did love all the characters and how they were portrayed from different eras. It was a wh ...more

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Oct 16, 2009 Kellyreaderofbooks rated it it was amazing

One night, three members of a family are murdered in their home. Only the youngest--a one year old old little boy--escapes. He toddles down to the local graveyard, and the ghosts and vampire who live there protect him from the murderer, a horrible man named Jack. The residents of the graveyard decide to take in and raise the young boy, who they name Nobody Owens.

Growing up in a graveyard makes for a unique childhood. Nobody (or Bod, as he likes to be called) learns such things as how to open a ...more

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Oct 05, 2010 Roseann rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I seldom listen to audiobooks even though I drive for over two hours every day I work. When I saw that part of this year's Read Harder challenge was to listen to an audio book I cringed, but then I saw that one of my favorite YA novels was available and I was not disappointed. A great author reads this great story! ...more

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Sep 04, 2011 ELP rated it liked it

The very beginning of the book is just wonderful. Rich use of language. Many details of the afterlife are not explained; I wish that had been more explored. There are many mini-adventures, and I wish there had been more about the man named Jack.

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