Coraline

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and could not put it down. It's short, but incredibly good. Gaiman does a fantastic job with his descriptions and his wording. It kept me engaged the whole time. I was never bored and things progress at a relatively quick pace so I was always eager to read more! It was also very creepy. The book is way more creepier than the movie.

As a kid I was terrified of the movie but as much as I hate to say it I’ve grown such an appreciation for this story! The movie was good but the book was great!!

This book is a bit faster paced in comparison to the movie, which i absolutely love and can watch over and over again forever. I was afraid the book would be completely different and make me think differently of the movie (as a lot of book to movie adaptations have) but I love how much of the book made it into the movie.

Overall, a really great simple fast read, especially for a “kids” book, it does great to set a scene.

Yo soy súper fanatica de la película y tenía que leerme el libro En si me gusto, pero siento que todo iba muy rápido era como que no te dejaban procesar una cosa para lanzarte otra

"Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky." *** Revisiting a childhood story! I watched the movie a long time ago, so I was happy to find a secondhand copy of the book in the marketplace. 5 stars because I loved the movie and the book did not disappoint. Simple yet great storytelling by Gaiman; it was fun to imagine the events of the movie play out in my head whilst reading.

Delightfully dark story that reminds me that I need to read more children's literature as it is always a good investment, especially if it is as well-written as this book. I'd previously read (and immensely enjoyed) The Graveyard Book and this is of a similar vein. This is certainly worth coming back to for a re-read.

/3.5 ⭐️’s/ This book was good! I enjoyed it but for the first time I will say I liked the movie better. The movie felt more put together and the book felt overly descriptive which I didn’t enjoy sadly. But overall I still liked it and will buy the physical copy. I will say I missed Wybie and didn’t know he wasn’t a part of the actual story and was just made for the movie 😭.

It sucked

I always wanted to watch Coraline but I just couldn’t find it on any streaming platforms… so I bought the book and it was totally worth it. The story was amazing and thrilling through and through!!

id probably read this book whenever i miss my parents :"]

i used to be terrified of the movie and for no reason bc this is worst. i'm scary lol

Hui, krasses Kinderbuch

Neil Gaiman, I love you <3

So easy and terrifying and genuinely good

This was a fun and fast read! Would recommend if you liked other Neil Gaman's books.

Okay I loved this. Not as creepy as the film. But just as whimsical. I listened to the audiobook with Gaimen and he is a great narrator. I love Gaiman as a writer as this cemented that.

read this before going to bed for the last few days and i’d like to say that reading the book now was creepier than watching the movie when i was a kid,, neil gaiman u are a gem

A year ago my family went through a Coraline frenzy. With the film coming out my husband saw that I had a copy of Gaiman's book and decided to read it. He hadn't yet become a fan of the author's books so was reading it out of skepticism. When he loved it he lent the book to his family. When we got the book back he read it to our son (then six) who thought the Other Mother was the coolest book monster ever. After the book reading frenzy we rented the film which I loved. Although I adore most of the things by Gaiman that I've read, Coraline didn't wow me as much as it did the rest of my family. The film did, though. When we rented the film we didn't show it to either Sean or Harriet, feeling they were both too young for it. Sean though, having heard of the movie through friends at school pestered us to see it (for about six month). I decided to test his readiness by getting P. Craig Russell's adaptation of the novel as a graphic novel. I figured if he liked seeing the Other Mother in that form he could handle an animated version of her. Sean ended up reading the book in about a week. It was a hit and he showed it to his sister. Anyway before I returned the book to the library I read it to. I still prefer the film to either version of the book but I see it as a sliding scale. At one end is the book and at the other end is the film. Bridging the gap is the graphic novel. Now please don't get the wrong idea; Russell doesn't change the text of Gaiman's novel. He doesn't introduce characters like the film does. But his visuals are similar. The house looks a good deal like the Pink Lady in film and the location is once again moved from Britain to the United States. Since Sean ended loving the graphic novel and the original novel, we re-rented the movie and let him and Harriet see it. Although Harriet had a few hide behind the couch moments she stuck with hit through the end (about six times too) with her brother. Sean loved it, even the changes. Yesterday I saw the film on sale and bought a copy for our DVD collection. We've already watched our copy twice.

Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a book I meant to read at the start of the year. I loaned it to my family who also wanted to read it, thinking I could find a copy in my library. With the movie still relatively new, the book was always checked out. By the time I had the book back I had other things I was reading. Eight months passed before I finally got it read. With my husband and mother in law both having read it and loved it I came to the book with exceptionally high expectations. I had also read and loved a number of other Gaiman books this year. It has all the elements I normally enjoy: an adventure involving an old house, a secret door, "other" versions of characters, magic, danger, ghosts and so forth. But somehow it just didn't knock me over like The Graveyard Book did. Coraline and her parents have moved into an old house that like so many old homes in Britain has been divided into flats. It's summer but an unusually cool and rainy one and Coraline's parents are too busy to entertain her as she's cooped up inside. In exploring the house she comes to meet the other neighbors, none of whom can remember her name; they all call her Caroline. She also finds a locked door that leads to a brick wall. Locked or bricked doors are never an obstacle for long in this sort of book. Coraline does find her way to the other side of the door and encounters a magical but off putting interpretation of her own world, populated with "other" versions: Other Mother, Other Father, and Other Neighbors. Despite some alluring qualities to this other world, she quickly realizes she had best stick to her own world. CoralineAgain, trips through portals are ever that simple. Coraline like Richard Mayhew (of Gaiman's Neverwhere) finds that things are not right in her world and the only way to fix them is to go back. Coraline has a lot of similarities with the older Neverwhere. There are doors to places that most people don't know about and doors where doors shouldn't be. There are mice and rats who bring messages. There is an ordinary protagonist who must give up everything to be a hero. But there is something lacking in Coraline too. Although it is maybe a third the length of Neverwhere, it took me three times as long to read it. It did not hold my attention. I had to go back and re-read long sections to see what had just happened. Had I not been planning to see the film, I would have left the book unfinished. I did want to see the film, having listened to the haunting sound track by Bruno Coulais. The film is very different from the book; a new setting, scenes moved around and the back story flushed out. The narrator is replaced by a new character named Wybie who serves to turn much of the lengthy descriptions into dialogue. So the book moves from Britain to Ashland, Oregon and the time of year to winter. I liked the changes between book and film and plan to get a copy for my DVD collection.

A good all hallows-read by the creator himself.

honestly i had fun which is all that matters .. and it got me out of my months long reading slump so .. thank you coraline

i know i shouldn't compare but the movie goes harder

This makes a nice spooky tale for children and maybe I should rate the book according to that standard? Maybe, and i'd definitely recommend this book to my nieces and nephews. It has suspense, a moral lesson, adventure, mystery, and middle-grade appropriate horror which is pretty fun but not too much that you'd be scared to put this under your pillow. But aside from a subjective evaluation of how this book ticks boxes, i didn't feel anything strong when I read this. 3.5 lah.

What a quick and fun yet creepy read! I really enjoy it. Haven't read the book but now I really want to.