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  • Wonderful book for kids and adults!

    

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• ― GeekGirl said on Oct 8, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • A Child's Book?

  • Not in my home! However, I loved it. I think, it was inappropriate for my sons.

    

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  • Warmed up to the Newberry Winner

  • I have to say to begin with that I just don't care for the fantasy genre, but by the end of the story I had warmed up to this little book. The premise is that a young boy's family is savagely murdered by an intruder. The boy ("Bod" for "Nobody") is taken in by the residents of a graveyard when he fo ... Continue

    I have to say to begin with that I just don't care for the fantasy genre, but by the end of the story I had warmed up to this little book. The premise is that a young boy's family is savagely murdered by an intruder. The boy ("Bod" for "Nobody") is taken in by the residents of a graveyard when he fortuitously crawls out of his crib, as precocious toddlers in stories are wont to do. There is sophisticated humor "It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise a child..it will take a graveyard." There is a lot of symbolism, allusions to vampires and werewolves and evil. The action gets fast and furious (and really scary!) in the last chapters as "Bod" the young man confronts the ancient brotherhood responsible for the deaths of his family. But again there is comic relief and I laughed out loud when Bod's friend Scarlett, facing down death in the graveyard says to herself: "if I get out of this alive, I'm going to force her to get me a phone. It's ridiculous. I'm the only person in my year who doesn't have her own phone, practically." In the end, after Bod has done away with all the bad guys, he grows up and leaves the graveyard. He wants to "see the world...get into trouble...get out of trouble...leave no path untaken." By the end of the story, dear readers, you will have no doubt that Bod will do all that and more!

    

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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustration of award-winning Dave McKean.

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