The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 4/5 cats
and that’s me finishing my last book for this class. and i managed to read it the same day i watched coraline, so i’m a little gaimaned out right now. this book was enjoyable—it is a little episodic-with-overarching-storyline number about a child living in a graveyard with the dead after a man slaughters his family with a knife. typical newbery-award fare. there are a few very memorable scenes, and i think i developed a crush on silas, but i have too much of a headache now for anything else. maybe more?
okay—now my class is officially over and i don’t have a headache. this is what i learned in class today: 1) no one writes fantasy novels for adults anymore. 2) young boys won’t want to read this book because it starts out with a graphic murder, and little boys don’t like that because it’s too much like a slasher film. 3) there aren’t any other books that take place in a graveyard with characters who are both living and dead. 4) with this book, neil gaiman is trying to jump on the graphic novel bandwagon. in short—there are some stupid stupid motherfuckers in my class. i just sit there silently, and draw pictures of samuel pepys. and i didn’t even get my paper back today as promised. i hate waiting for grades.
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