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Liked It5 of 5 members found this review helpful “The Graveyard Book, critics (and the writer himself) will cheerfully point out, is a bit like the Jungle Book, with all the animals replaced by ghosts and ghouls. Now, it's been a long while since I read the Jungle Book (and I am not sure whether I ever read all of it), but the similarities are...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.”
barbara k wrote this review 2 hours ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Reminds me why I love Gaiman.”
Kelly A wrote this review 5 hours ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“After a child escapes an attempted murder, he finds a safe haven in a graveyard, where the resident ghosts agree to raise him as their own. There, Nobody Owens is safe, looked after by his ghostly foster parents, his mysterious, and not all human guardian, and in his environment, encounters much of the supernatural around him. But Bod knows that outside the graveyard, someone is after him, and means to kill him as well.
Dazzling Mage wrote this review 21 hours ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
As much as I admire Neil Gaiman's work, I couldn't really get into this. Probably because I didn't have time to bond with this book properly, or that it was targeted towards a younger audience. I still found it enjoyable though, especially towards the end. ”
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Ailee wrote this review 22 hours ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Shortly after I finished reading The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal for it, and I was really pleased he did. Not only has Gaiman penned some of my favorite books (Neverwhere among my top picks), it's refreshing to see a science fiction/fantasy author get recognized with an award for outstanding young adult literature. Indeed, The Graveyard Book is the kind of stuff kids should be reading, and not all that Twilight crap. As its title suggests, the story takes place primarily in a graveyard, where young Nobody Owens is raised and protected by its otherworldly inhabitants. Gaiman has written an intelligent, sensitive novel filled with striking and haunting imagery (pun intended), and bravely-- and beautifully-- taking on the themes of death, which is usually reserved for less young adults, and life, which is usually far scarier than death.
What I like best about what Gaiman has done with The Graveyard Book is what in my opinion all good young adult lit authors should do: trust their audience. They should never insult their intelligence by spelling everything out for them, and leave some, if not a lot, of room for their imagination to get some exercise. Gaiman achieves that here, if not because his genre does always require more stretching from said imagination, then due to his skillful subtlety as a writer. He elaborates rather than explains, explores rather than elucidates, and most importantly, engages rather than exhorts. There is no preachy moral, no clever catch-- simply a story with substance brilliantly told.”“One of my favorite books, once again Neil captivates me with the flow of his words and his ability to make me belive his fantastic world is real. He tells this quirky tale with all the majesty of a fantasy novel but when you come to the end you realize that you have actually finished reading a sci-fi. If Giaman pulls the wool over your eyes with this one, it's the kind of wool you want over your eyes. ”
Quinn K wrote this review yesterday. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I could not really read it and enjoy it although i love ghost stories! my sister read it and said she loiked it.”
Lou F wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A REALLY CREEPY BOOK REALLY GOOD FOR THRILLS
Tanveer S wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“A master storyteller, Neil Gaiman, takes us through the mists and whispers of the eerie graveyard Nobody Owens calls home. Bod was just a toddler when his family was brutally murdered by the man Jack. Thus, he came to live with his ghostly family Mr. and Mrs. Owens and all the delightfully macabre residents of the graveyard. It takes the graveyard to raise Bod, as the tale goes. His guardian, Silas, teaches him, cares for him, and provides him with his human needs. Bod will be protected from any harm as long as he stays within the rusted and decrepit iron walls of this unearthly home, for as Silas and the others know, the man Jack has unfinished business to attend to. The man Jack, a jack-of-all-trades, has to redeem himself and prove to his fellow Jacks that he can destroy the boy who lives on the edge between this world and the next.
Jackie W wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This Newbery Award winner for 2009, The Graveyard Book is both delightfully quirky and melodiously narrated as only Gaiman can do. The story of Bod is filled with trepidation, loneliness, compassion and luminosity, not to mention other-worldly shenanigans. Bod's story will live with the reader until the Lady on the great gray stallion meets him or her at the gates of the graveyard”
“Awful. Episodic and I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters. Poorly executed. Only finished because I am in a YAL book club. The group felt as I do.”
LCillessen wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
