Coraline: The Graphic Novel
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
Traveling to TOC, 7/21/13.
ghir, I brought home too many of your books from our lunch at Cafe Taj Mahal today! :p
Thanks..
Thanks..
This edition is beautifully illustrated, but somehow a bit too prosaic for me. The other mother is scarier in my head and on the movie screen, and the whimsy of the story got rather submerged in the everyday reality of the images on the page.
Still, Gaiman's story hasn't lost its appeal for me.
Here's another copy on my shelf.
Still, Gaiman's story hasn't lost its appeal for me.
Here's another copy on my shelf.
Coraline's next adventure is a trip to New Hampshire in GoryDetails's graphic novel shrinking bookbox.
I'd seen the 2009 film but hadn't read the book, so I'm glad to have a crack at this adaptation. (I adore P. Craig Russell's artwork, so perhaps I'll like this better than hyphen8 did!)
Later: While I did like Russell's illustrations more than the grotesqueries of the film, I admit that they resulted in a less-scary story - though the understated weirdness of this version had its own creepily effective moments. (And I loved all of the cat's scenes!) Coraline seemed less of a child-with-too-busy-parents here and more a child who couldn't readily amuse herself very well, something that perhaps reduced my sympathy for her a wee bit - but some of the lines of dialogue here were priceless, and overall I enjoyed the story.
Later: While I did like Russell's illustrations more than the grotesqueries of the film, I admit that they resulted in a less-scary story - though the understated weirdness of this version had its own creepily effective moments. (And I loved all of the cat's scenes!) Coraline seemed less of a child-with-too-busy-parents here and more a child who couldn't readily amuse herself very well, something that perhaps reduced my sympathy for her a wee bit - but some of the lines of dialogue here were priceless, and overall I enjoyed the story.
Journal Entry 6 by 
GoryDetails
at Brew'd Awakening Coffeehaus in Lowell, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, October 29, 2013
GoryDetails at Brew'd Awakening Coffeehaus in Lowell, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (10/29/2013 UTC) at Brew'd Awakening Coffeehaus in Lowell, Massachusetts USA
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I plan to leave this book on the book-swap shelf inside Brew'd Awakening at around 1 or so; hope the finder enjoys it!
*** Released as part of the 2013 Halloween Spooktacular release challenge, for the bats on the cover. ***
*** Released as part of the 2013 Movie release challenge. ***
*** Released as part of the 2013 Halloween Spooktacular release challenge, for the bats on the cover. ***
*** Released as part of the 2013 Movie release challenge. ***
Picked it up from Brew'd Awakening in Lowell, MA was just sitting on the bookshelf there. I loved other graphic novels I've read, and I've read the book and seen the movie, so i was interested to check out this version of the story. :) will update once I get a chance to read it.
I think the illustrations were a bit lacking - but was decent time killer
Journal Entry 9 by DanBasil at Hot Topic - Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted, Ohio USA on Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (11/20/2013 UTC) at Hot Topic - Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted, Ohio USA
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Handed off to clerk to pass along
