Coraline

I am going to go ahead and post instead tonight.

What do you guys think about this book? Are you lovin' it or not? I'm not loving this book at all. Let's be honest here...the book is creepy. I think it's the pictures that get me, they look so weird and scray. It reminds me of those "scray ghost story" books that you would read as a little child. I was the child that read that book when it was complete daylight outside with friends, too creepy to read alone.
The whole book seems rather odd to me as well? The mice whisper and sing this creepy song? Who goes and talks to mice hiding under a bed? There is this part on page 31 when she is at "other mothers' house" and she is talking to the mice. She asks them if they can talk and what they do and in response they say this back to her:
"We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails and we have eyes
We were here before you fell
You will be here when we rise"

when i read that section it seemed as if the mice were preparing her because they were going to take over. Apparently they were just preparing for the circus they were going to perform. Yeah, that makes much more sense. Again..a very intresting and odd book.

I think the whole "other mothers' house" is creepy. Everything on that side of that other world is distorted and strange. For example, her parents have buttons for eyes. The plus side is her parents in that house ackwoledge her and feed her real food vs. her real parents who are always too busy to spend time with her and either can't cook or cook something that a child her age definately won't eat. They also pronouce her name the correct way.

This book seems like a dark attempt at something like The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
I can't say i would ever reccomend this book to anyone, and to be honest it has already gone in my "donate" area in my garage. I have a hard time doing illogical and creepy at the same time.