![]() ![]() ![]() What happens when the curious and up-for-something-ANYthing-different Coraline goes through? We have young Coraline (“Don’t call me Caroline!”) whose family moves into a new flat that is completely and unutterably boring… except for that doorway that’s locked… and then opens up to a bit of a brick wall… It’s just that, well, I think kids (P’raps the older ones?) will like it more than grownups will as there aren’t as many layers added within this one to reveal a glorious fully-flowered gem of a book. Oh what they’re missing as the man hits every note, every pregnant pause, every sassy comment just perfectly. Of COURSE his narration is wonderful: Gaiman NOT doing Gaiman? Sacrilege!!! I can only feel the utmost pity for non-English speakers who have to listen to this audiobook as narrated in their native Italian, or Spanish, or whatever. ![]() No, no, no! Please don’t get me wrong: On a bad day, his writing farrrrr surpasses what mere mortals, struggling authors, put out on their very best days.Īnd so we have this audiobook. ![]() Naturally then, I was a bit disappointed with Coraline. So since then, any audiobook by him just haaaaas to reach the heights he set with that book. What an absolutely stellar audiobook: Such a story, so well-written, and Gaiman’s narration, naturally, added so much. I dunno it seems like, to me, everything always comes back to Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane. ![]()
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