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The Graveyard Book
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bookshelves: mark-harmon, and-so-this-is-grad-school, death-is-not-the-end
Aug 02, 2009
bookshelves: mark-harmon, and-so-this-is-grad-school, death-is-not-the-end
and that's me finishing my last book for this class. and i managed to read it the same day i watched coraline, so i'm a little gaimaned out right now. this book was enjoyable - it is a little episodic-with-overarching-storyline number about a child living in a graveyard with the dead after a man slaughters his family with a knife. typical newbery-award fare. there are a few very memorable scenes, and i think i developed a crush on silas, but i have too much of a headache now for anything else. maybe more?
okay - now my class is officially over and i don't have a headache. this is what i learned in class today: 1) no one writes fantasy novels for adults anymore. 2) young boys won't want to read this book because it starts out with a graphic murder, and little boys don't like that because it's too much like a slasher film. 3) there aren't any other books that take place in a graveyard with characters who are both living and dead. 4) with this book, neil gaiman is trying to jump on the graphic novel bandwagon. in short - there are some stupid stupid motherfuckers in my class. i just sit there silently, and draw pictures of samuel pepys. and i didn't even get my paper back today as promised. i hate waiting for grades.
okay - now my class is officially over and i don't have a headache. this is what i learned in class today: 1) no one writes fantasy novels for adults anymore. 2) young boys won't want to read this book because it starts out with a graphic murder, and little boys don't like that because it's too much like a slasher film. 3) there aren't any other books that take place in a graveyard with characters who are both living and dead. 4) with this book, neil gaiman is trying to jump on the graphic novel bandwagon. in short - there are some stupid stupid motherfuckers in my class. i just sit there silently, and draw pictures of samuel pepys. and i didn't even get my paper back today as promised. i hate waiting for grades.
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Aug 04, 2009 08:05PM
Reading your extended review I was thinking I wish we had a picture of high socks, just to give the other readers of your review an image of what the 'man' who said that boys don't like books with graphic murders in them looks like.
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he looks like a gary larsen character, crossed with a marshmallow.
i guess that's pretty accurate. that description makes it sound like your trying to jump on the graphic novel bandwagon....
i just sit there silently, and draw pictures of samuel pepysthis makes me love you.
looking back now that the class is over, i can laugh, but honestly, i fear for the future of libraries if that is who will be in charge.
is this going to be where i come in to get your samuel pepys drawing on to the internet? were you also drawing a ghost graduating from library school today?
lets see... yup - graduating ghost, bossy turnip, this looks like a vagina, but it might be something else... oh! a drawing of high-socks (he of "boys dont like slasher films" fame) some cherries... hahhaha mary louisa molesworth... i dont scan... who scans?? (im not much of an artist, btw - it looks more like grace zabriskie than pepys)
I was off my drawing game tonight. I only drew myself sneezing, and a dolphin laying in shit.
I think connor can scan. I can try to take pictures with a camera and then put them up.
will make this west-coast retard very happy. easy, easy...
i can also just draw you your own custom-made design. hand-numbered and everything.
i'm over the east coast west coast thing, now i'm just insanely jealous that you've read the new ellroy novel.
scan!(can't you contact the rep, greg, and have him send you an ARC?)
it will take a village but it will get done.
i can also just draw you your own custom-made design. hand-numbered and everything.i want a picture of morrissey.
on fire.
not, as in, 'hairdresser on fire'...
but, like, up in flames, burning alive.
yeah?
High socks needs to meet a few boys, methinks.
I want a snail that looks like me.
our buyer called the random house guy to get a one for himself and one for me after i saw you had a copy, but i haven't gotten my hands on it yet.
yes to both of your drawings.
I want you to tell me when your birthday is again. It is soon.
it is the 23rd. i dont remember yours either. sadface
karen wrote: "yes to both of your drawings."
It will be a goodreads gallery showing!
It will be a goodreads gallery showing!
Mine was yesterday. You missed it.
Not really. Mine is in autumn. vagueface
jen can be so cruel. all i want is to shower her with prezzies...
Oh. Well, then, for my birthday, November 16, you can send me your cat.
You can draw me a picture of your cat saving the world. Maggie saves the Day, again!
okay i have the montambo and brian pictures ready. i just need to find a way to make them go on the computer.
I can lend you my camera at work on tuesday and you can take the pictures.
okay - the pictures have been taken. i hope you guys understand that these are just glorified class-doodles - i am no artist. but i colored these so they would show up better. greg will slap them on the computer tomorrow.
hmm. he was supposed to put them up. lets bother him until he does it.
they will be up in a few moments, right now the sock monsters are going up.
oh good - my monsters!
I'm not sure which one I like best. The fire has its charms, to be sure, but it is hard to go up against a snail like that.
i make better monsters than drawings.
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they're really cool. you even included the gladiolas!
is the other one a snailtambo?
it's really scary and cute.
Yay! I love Snailme!
Ditto to comment 47.
I noticed the gladiolas, too!
Ditto to comment 47.
I noticed the gladiolas, too!
if you want the originals, they are yours. the moma hasnt returned my calls...
