{"id":177,"date":"2008-08-15T22:59:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/15\/review-of-coraline-by-neil-gaiman\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:51:18","slug":"review-of-coraline-by-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Review of Coraline, by Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image229\" height=\"239\" alt=\"coraline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/coraline.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Coraline<\/em><\/p>\n<p>written and performed by Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p>with original music by The Gothic Archies<\/p>\n<p>HarperCollins, 2000.\u00a0 3 hours, 3 compact discs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coraline <\/em>is an exceedingly creepy story, in a delicious, shivery sort of way.\u00a0 (I recently read an author interview where he said that parents find the book more disturbing than kids do.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not surprised.)<\/p>\n<p>There is a door in Coraline&#8217;s apartment that leads to a brick wall.\u00a0 Once it led to another flat, but when the house was split into apartments, the door was bricked up.\u00a0 However, one day Coraline follows a shadow through that door.\u00a0 She finds there a woman who says she is Coraline&#8217;s other mother.\u00a0 She wants Coraline to stay with her forever, and has some wonderful inducements.\u00a0 But they turn out to be less and less wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone on the other side has black buttons where their eyes should be.\u00a0 Things look normal, but turn out to be seriously disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>And leaving the other flat is not as easy as entering.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Gaiman&#8217;s performance of this story is wonderful, enhanced by the incredibly creepy songs of The Gothic Archies.\u00a0 I chose this book to listen to on our trip to Florida because I thought my 14-year-old son would enjoy it, too.\u00a0 I do think I found the story creepier than he did.\u00a0 But tremendously well-written and well performed.<\/p>\n<p>Not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061660167\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/coraline.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/coraline.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coraline written and performed by Neil Gaiman with original music by The Gothic Archies HarperCollins, 2000.\u00a0 3 hours, 3 compact discs. Coraline is an exceedingly creepy story, in a delicious, shivery sort of way.\u00a0 (I recently read an author interview where he said that parents find the book more disturbing than kids do.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}