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I'm a big fan of Neil Gaiman but lately some of his books fell flat for me. This is one of them. I loved the story up to the point where the bad guy(s) show up. From there on, everything became terribly trivial and it was too easy to see where the story was going.
The characters from the cemetery were simply marvelous. I loved the ambiguity of some of them. And I loved the way they did their best to raise a living child -- not exactly easy when you're dead.
I'm sure this book makes a good read for ...more
The characters from the cemetery were simply marvelous. I loved the ambiguity of some of them. And I loved the way they did their best to raise a living child -- not exactly easy when you're dead.
I'm sure this book makes a good read for ...more
“Things blossom in their time. They bud and bloom, bloom and fade. Everything in its time.”
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
One of a kind. A boy living in a cemetery with ghosts as his charge. With this one, Gaiman captivated my imagination.
Every word and pages, every crypt and headstone, I become hungry with it. I wish to be part of Bod’s life (of course as someone living. Hehe)
The residents of the graveyard are so scary. Nah! They are ...more
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
One of a kind. A boy living in a cemetery with ghosts as his charge. With this one, Gaiman captivated my imagination.
Every word and pages, every crypt and headstone, I become hungry with it. I wish to be part of Bod’s life (of course as someone living. Hehe)
The residents of the graveyard are so scary. Nah! They are ...more
I have yet to read something by Neil Gaiman that I didn't just love. He was an author that I'd wanted to read and I think I finally read a short story in an anthology, then moved to American Gods and the Sandman Graphic Novels.
The Graveyard book is amazing. It is a little hard to believe it's a children's book. It starts out very creepy, but I didn't feel it ever got too scary. The book is the story of Nobody Owens, called Bod for short. He is being raised in a graveyard by a ghost couple, with ...more
The Graveyard book is amazing. It is a little hard to believe it's a children's book. It starts out very creepy, but I didn't feel it ever got too scary. The book is the story of Nobody Owens, called Bod for short. He is being raised in a graveyard by a ghost couple, with ...more
Great to see a book from Gaiman that didn’t have a flat, cop-out type climax. This book felt well-planned and more solid towards the end. I think I prefer his YA stuff to his adult books, as Coraline was also a treat.
Am knocking off half a star (or one star since Goodreads doesn’t go half) for the familiar set of characters that I’m starting to see in every book he writes and the complete lack of building a backstory around Bod’s ghost parents. They are introduced from the beginning and then Sil ...more
Am knocking off half a star (or one star since Goodreads doesn’t go half) for the familiar set of characters that I’m starting to see in every book he writes and the complete lack of building a backstory around Bod’s ghost parents. They are introduced from the beginning and then Sil ...more
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