Friday, January 19, 2007

Coraline

Do not read until you've finished Coraline.

5 Comments:

Blogger Keith Weber said...

Okay, so I really liked this book. My favorite character was definitely the cat. It was a dramatic change in the image of cats from Link's Catskins and Gaimon's Coraline. I was really pleased when Coraline tossed the hand down the well. Did anyone else find it ironic that the hand came from a world of darkness and ended up in a world of darkness? Hmm, food for thought.

12:14 AM  
Blogger Keith Weber said...

That is very true. In one of my favorite series, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodman, a cat serves as an important warning in the beginning of the series. I really liked the fact that even though the "other father" was a creation of the "other mother," he was still able to resist her will for a time. That was very impressive I thought.

3:13 PM  
Blogger Tiffiny Harris said...

I thought this book was pretty great! I sat down to read it yesterday and read the whole thing before I knew it. I was a bit apprehensive about reading it from the back cover of the book because I thought it may have been something like Narnia, but it was a totally different twist on the portal that was wonderful. I have to admit that some of the story kind of disturbed me.. the whole button eyes that they wanted to sew on to Coraline and the fact that her parents were stolen from her, rats in general. Speaking of rats, the part in the book where she is going to see the other crazy old man upstairs when the coat was filled with rats reminded me of Link's bee guy in the Hortlak.

11:14 AM  
Blogger Nick said...

Definitely my favorite part of this book (which was awesome as a whole), was Coraline's final encounter with the other father. He tells her that he doesn't want to hurt her but he has to and then she tells him to just be brave (just as she had been throughout the book). It seems like the experience with the wasps has really changed her outlook on life. I didn't understand the importance of that story until that moment and thought it fit very well.

2:08 PM  
Blogger Tara said...

I think my favorite aspect of the book was the detail Gaiman put into it. At first, I was kind of annoyed with all of the little irrelevant things he mentioned. I should have known better, considering it was a Neil Gaiman book, I guess. I loved that he pulled most of them back in the end.

7:36 PM  

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