3/4/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman the graveyard bookMagical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack-who has already killed Bod's family.Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audeince that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, bring raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. |a Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. |t How Nobody came to the graveyard - |t New friend - |t Hounds of God - |t Witch's headstone - |t Danse Macabre - |t Interlude: The convocation - |t Nobody Owens' school days - |t Every man Jack - |t Leavings and partings. |a The graveyard book / |c Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean. |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d IG# |d BTCTA |d BAKER |d YDXCP |d ABG |d XY4 |d NPL |d TEF |d EHH |d LMR |d CDX |d PAU |d CPE |d UWC |d IXA |d EDK |d UPP |d MUS |d CQU |d SGB |d JCL |d PFO |d OCLCQ |d IAI |d OCLCA |d OCLCQ |d BDX |d LF3 |d TXBXL |d CNGNQ |d KCP |d CZL |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d CGN |d MQ9 |d SAP |d OCLCO |d GZN |d IGA |d TXNVM |d TXNPS |d DDD |d SFR |d JHWCP |d CHILD |d OCLCQ |d WLU |d OCLCO |d AZZPT |d TXKIL |d IIB |d TAW |d IUK |d TXJAS |d QNC |d OCLCQ |d KFH |d OCLCQ |d FWR |d TXLAG |d NZLEP |d OCLCQ |d LJ8 |d CPO |d OCLCO |d XFF |d BVI |d LMJ |d LKC |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d JX9 |d OCLCO |d BYV |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d GAT |d OCLCO |d OKA |d OCLCO |d IPU |d GAVCL |d CRH |d OCLCO |d CSY |d OCLCO |d CPO |d VSI |d XMC |d TDL |d WKM |d GWC |d GYG |d OCLCO |d MIR |d OCLCO |d HNQ |d OCLCO |d MDO |d KUK |d ELZ |d OCLCO |d KP2 |d OCL |d OCLCO |d HEV Graveyards have always been a point of interest for me–their ominous feel, their fearful history–but I feel as though The Graveyard Book completely missed an opportunity to really develop and give backstory to the graveyard that Bod found himself in. I also feel as though my reasons for disliking this novel stem back to its failed attempt at setting inspirations. I highly doubt that I will ever be doing this again after the impression this novel left on me. Coraline, the novel written by the same author, continues to be my favourite film and novel–if not actual thin–on the planet, and though I had delved into Gaiman’s adult novels (American Gods, The Ocean at the End of the Lane) I had never felt the need to explore his young adult/children books. One of the main reasons I feel I didn’t enjoy this book is the fact that I had extremely high expectations for it. I don’t know whether I had set my expectations too high when I purchased the book, but all hopes and aspirations were crumbled by uninteresting characters, bland dialogue and boring plot development. One of the most central reasons for this was that the novel wasn’t actually a novel at all, but rather a collection of short stories that occurred with Nobody throughout his life. The Graveyard Book chronicles his life throughout the graveyard and the places in its vicinity, and was a novel that succeeded Gaiman’s 2002 novel Coraline, which was adapted for television just a year after the release of The Graveyard Book. ![]() The novel follows Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens through his experiences of living with a cohort of ghouls and ghosts within a cemetery. The Graveyard Book, published in 2008, is a work of Neil Gaiman’s that instantly appeals to readers of the macabre and strange.
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