Book Review | Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Graphic Novel)
Rating
3 stars – a slightly spooky tale of a girl who finds herself in another world
Coraline is about…
A young girl who goes exploring in her apartment and opens a door to another world where her ‘other mother’ tries to kidnap her and her parents.
I’ve heard fantastic things about this book over recent months and thought it would be a good opportunity for me to experience my first graphic novel – but I think it will unfortunately be my last. I just didn’t get it.
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The story is obviously told through illustrations as well as snippets of text but I think I’m a lover of words more than pictures and found the book lacking in atmosphere. Sure the illustrations of the ‘other parents’ and their world were slightly freaky looking but I think if I’d have read the ‘real version’ of this book I would probably have been more spooked. Luckily I’ve enjoyed Gaiman previously so this hasn’t put me off him as an author and I’m looking forward to The Graveyard Book.
The movie is due for release sometime soon and I believe they’re re-releasing the paperback version to tie- in; perhaps I’ll wait awhile and then give that one a try instead.
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I LOVED this book, but in general I love Neil Gaiman
I have not seen the graphic novel, I shall have to be on the look out!
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I haven’t read Coraline, but my boyfriend is an artist in the Comic book industry (works for DC). I loved Maus and Blankets and The Plain Janes (meant for teenage girls to read). Another one of my personal favorites? Astronauts of The Future. It was awesome. =0)
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One thing that I’ve noticed about graphic novels is that those adapted from books always seem to fall short of those that were originally designed to be graphic novels.
I read the original version of Coraline – and it was fantastic.
If you want to try a completely different type of graphic novel, I would recommend Maus to Art Spiegelman or Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.