Coraline

Coraline is one of my all time favorite books, that I not only re-read multiple times but also gift friends who love unusual themes! The author's imagination takes you through the struggles of a young girl who copes up with her busy parents and the need to entertain herself, some weird neighbors, later a surreal world with an incredible villain. The entire narrative is spellbinding and it kept me hooked till the very end. Only a talented writer can efficiently mingle humor, fear, emotions and surrealism all in one story so seamlessly. This is the kind of book that kids as well as quirky adults would enjoy immensely!

I didn't know a kid's book could be this scary. But I do get scared easily. Loved it! Just a question though Spoiler below*** Wonder how the hand escaped from the other side of the door. I remember Coraline immediately closed the door after coming to her real home. And locked the door as well. If the hand knows some other hidden passage- why can't the other mom use it?

Clear print for old and young to read.Could do with lower price.

I really liked this book and hope Neil gaimen writes more books like this enjoyed this book. Regards Anuradha Sharma

An amazing book that blew me away. The best thing about it is that it's words are so graphic that you cannot but picture it beautifully I front of your eyes..... Go for it... Fall time is the best to be reading it...

Nobody can drench a book in creepy, dank atmosphere like Neil Gaiman -- and it doesn't matter if it's a kid's book. "Coraline" is no exception to Gaiman's track record. It's a haunting little dark fairy tale full of decayed apartments, dancing rats and eerie soulless doppelgangers, as well as a gutsy heroine who finds herself in this ominous "other" world -- exactly the kind of creepy story kids love. Newly moved into an aged apartment, Coraline (not "Caroline" is bored. Her parents are too busy to do anything with her, and her neighbors are either insane or boring. It's the sort of relentlessly dull world that any little girl would want to escape from -- until Coraline does. She encounters a formerly bricked-up door that leads into an apartment in another world, which looks eerily like her own. In fact, it's so similar that she has a taloned, button-eyed "other mother" and matching "other father," as well as a chorus of singing, dancing rats and magical toys. At first Coraline is fascinated by the other world, especially since her other parents are very attentive. Then she finds her real parents sealed inside a mirror. With the help of a sarcastic cat, Coraline ventures back into the other world. But with her parents and a trio of dead children held hostage, Coraline's only hope is to gamble with her own freedom -- and she'll be trapped forever if she fails. Without Neil Gaiman's touch, "Coraline" would just be another story about a kid who learns to appreciate her parents. But he infuses this story with a dark fairy-tale vibe -- decayed apartments, dead children in a mirror, beetles, disembodied hands, monsters that cling to the wall with souls in their grip, and rats that sing about how "we were here before you rose, we will be here when you fall." That dark, cobwebby atmosphere clings to the increasingly nightmarish plot, as Coraline navigates a world where the other mother has every advantage. And Gaiman's wordcraft is exquisitely horrible -- the other mother's hands are compared to spiders, her hair to undersea tentacles. And the fate of the other father is a magnificently ghastly thing. He even infuses poetry into the horror ("A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten"), and a fair amount of macabre humour ("I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" "Oh yes. I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back"). Coraline herself is a wonderful little heroine -- strong, sensible, self-sufficient but still fairly freaked out about what is happening around her. The sarcastic cat is a wonderful counterpoint. And the other mother is the stuff of nightmares -- she's utterly inhuman and merciless -- who "wants something to love. Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well." Neil Gaiman creates eerie, slightly warped worlds like nobody else, and he does an exquisitely horrible job in "Coraline." Just never go through the door.

Ok

Everything was nice, expect when I got the book it had foldings in the front cover and also at the back. Expect this I think the book is perfect anyways, but still not worth it for ₹631.

Excelente producto le gusto mucho a mi hija el tamaño es ideal ya que lo va a ocupar en la escuela lo recomendamos al 100%

Die Novelle lässt sich sehr schnell lesen. Ich selbst bin schon recht langsam beim lesen und kein guter Englischsprecher, daher hab ich für die Novelle etwa 5 h gebraucht (es sollte aber durchaus schneller gehen). Die Geschichte kannte ich schon zuvor aus dem gleichnamigen Film, wobei der Verlauf im Buch stringenter ist und etwas weniger umfasst als der Film Coraline, wobei mir das Buch etwas besser gefällt als der Film von der Geschichte her. Hier wurde bereits resümiert, dass die Geschichte vorhersehbar sei und etwas abgegriffen. Zu Beginn mag dies auch so stimmen, aber sobald die andere Mutter ihr wahres Gesicht zeigt, finde ich die Geschichte schon originell und spannend. Für ein eigentlich an Kinder gerichtete Lektüre finde ich das Buch schon sehr reflektierend, wobei es ein wenig schon an einen Bildungsroman erinnert. Ich finde sehr gut, dass die Hauptperson Coraline (nicht Caroline) kein typisches Mädchen im Sinne einer pinken Lilifee-Generation, sondern ein wahrhaftiges Kind mit seinen guten (Neugier, Aufmerksamkeit und Mut) und schlechten Eigenschaften (Ungeduld, Blauäugigkeit und eine gewisse Selbstbezogenheit) darstellt. Sehr schön ist, dass Coraline zum Ende mit immer schärferen Sinnen und Verstand agiert, um sich und ihre Eltern zu retten. Ich hab schon in manchen Rezensionen gehört, Coraline sei wie "Alice im Wunderland", was ich deutlich verneinen würde: Während Alice zufällig in eine einfach existente Parallelwelt eintaucht, die sich zwar manchmal an ihr stört und ihr auch gefährlich werden kann, aber dennoch für sich selbst da ist, wird Coraline in eine für sie geschaffene Parallelwelt geführt, die ihr zwar sehr vertraut erscheint, die aber auch nur für Coraline geschaffen wurde (sehr erhellend hierzu ist der Gang mit der Katze vom Haus weg). Ich denke, dass diese Geschichte mit ihrem Grusel, ihrer Skurrilität und ihren Entwicklungstendenzen des Hauptcharakters für den Leser eine angenehme Erfahrung darstellt. Lesenswert!

Coraline and her parents have moved in to a new flat, and things seem wonderful. But, Coraline's parents are too busy for her, so she goes exploring. As she does so, she finds that the new flat has twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Of those fourteen doors, thirteen open and can be passed through. The fourteenth, though, when Coraline's mother unlocks and opens the door, has only a brick wall behind it. Or does it? Because when Coraline unlocks and opens the fourteenth door, there isn't a brick wall there. Instead, she discovers another flat - which looks exactly like her own. At first, the other flat is really nice. The food there is much better, and her bedroom has a toy box with windup toys that are great fun. There's also another mother and another father. And they want Coraline to become their other daughter. But, in order to do so, Coraline would have to change. And that's where the trouble begins. I must confess that I am not one to read scary stories. If I do, I do so during the daytime, with all the lights on in the house. You can never be sure when the scary monsters will come out, after all. As such, I have not read many books by Mr. Gaiman. This is only the third, the first two being Odd and the Frost Giants and Norse Mythology - neither one of which falls into the category of scary story. As I had heard many good things about Coraline, and it's written for readers aged 9 and up, I thought it would be a safe enough option for me. I loved it. It did still scare me (I freely admit to being an adult scaredy cat), but I continued listening. As Coraline puts it, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave." For Coraline, I was brave. I should first point out that I listened to the audiobook, which was narrated by Mr. Gaiman himself. I am often leery of author-read audiobooks because, while they may be wizards with the written word, narrating involves an entirely different skill-set, and many authors just don't have it. Neil Gaiman does. His narration absolutely pulled me right into the story from the very beginning, and his knowledge of the story and the characters meant that he knew exactly what to emphasize and where to add tension to make the audiobook a truly great experience. From the beginning, when Coraline has to entertain herself because her parents don't have time for her to the end when Coraline finally ... no, I shouldn't say that. I don't want to give away spoilers. Anyway, from the beginning to the end, Gaiman weaves a tale that is fantastical, suspenseful, and wonderful. I loved the running - not really a joke or a gag, so much as a continuation of incompetency, so we'll go with that - the running incompetency of the other residents in Coraline's building being unable to say her name correctly; they keep calling her Caroline, even after she has corrected them...multiple times. Beyond the human characters - and I'm including other mother and other father in that category despite their being ... not really human - are the animal characters with which Coraline interacts multiple times. The rats. Oh. My. God. The rats. They sang. And I'm not talking about pretty little songs written by Disney musicians that will make you feel all happy and light. Oh, no. These rats sang songs that were dark and creepy and just... *shivers*. But, also... I loved those rats. I don't know why. There might be something wrong with me. But I thought they were great characters, and that's not even considering the old man who trains them. Then there's the cat. That cat is perfect, as anyone who has ever been owned by a cat can attest. In addition to all the great characters of both the creepy and non-creepy variety, Gaiman also weaves some wonderful themes in the story about love, family, fear, and bravery. As such, despite the creepiness of this story, I suspect that will become one of those stories that I revisit around Halloween each year, whether that's as a reread or a relisten. What about you? Will you also take a chance on this story? I vote for yes, but you obviously have the deciding vote...

I recommend getting it I loved the movie so much but I knew that there was a original version of coraline and wanted to read it the only problem I have is that it took forever to come to my house but I think because of the crazy weather I’ve recently dealt with which hasn’t got anything to do with buying this book

A very nice and detailed book, great read, not too different