Oh, don’t let Hamish eat the fruitcake, or he’ll be up all night with his tummy. You see, Caroline, Miss Spink said, getting Coraline’s name wrong, both myself and Miss Forcible were famous actresses, in our time. Once upon a time Miss Spink and Miss Forcible had been actresses, as Miss Spink told Coraline the first time she met her. They were both old and round, and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible lived in the flat below Coraline’s, on the ground floor. There were other people who lived in the old house. It was a very old house-it had an attic under the roof and a cellar under the ground and an overgrown garden with huge old trees in it.Ĭoraline’s family didn’t own all of the house-it was too big for that. Read moreĬORALINE DISCOVERED THE DOOR a little while after they moved into the house. I might take a look at some of his other stuff, but I wont rush out to do it. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, but Coraline remained too simple and too dark throughout.

It clumsily follows on the heals of the rereleases of C.S. It felt like the story wanted to be a more complex adult novel or a children's book with more illustrations.

At least the style and language of the story were clear.

The characters were dark as was the whole story wrapped within a story plot, but the ending was anticlimatic. Coraline is little like Van Allsburg's books like The Garden of Abdul Gasazi or The Mysteries of Harris Burdick but it isn't as inspired. I know people raved about Neil Gaimon's Coraline (especially people who loved the Sandman series-which I do like), but I didn't like it. After reading a highly praised 'comic' book that felt kind of flat, it's hard for me to jump on the comic book band wagon. Maybe that's because I didn't grow up reading them, or, maybe I'm just too uptight though, my fiance says I should try to read a few just for kicks.

Coraline by neil gaiman