Book Log

[mikekn]

19. Coraline - Neil Gaiman [24 : 830/1534]
A creepy children's book from Neil Gaiman with a little art from Dave McKean. Also a very quick read :)

Maybe if I read all the childrens books on my list I can meet the goal for the year...

Comments

[moirla.livejournal.com]

heh, is that cheating?

I *loved* Coraline! aren't they making a movie? maybe I'm crazy...

[mikekn]

Nah, the goal has always been to reduce the number of unread books I own. So it doesn't matter which books get read, just that enough of them do :)

[beththeevilone.livejournal.com]

Well what children's books are on your list? I've read a fair bit of childrens or rather "Teen" books and some are nice quick fun reads.

[mikekn]

Right now I've got some Lloyd Alexander, Mark Crilley, and Tanith Lee. There might be a few "young adult" books in there somewhere too.

[moirla.livejournal.com]

Lloyd Alexander is one of the gods in my personal pantheon, I've been meaning to try out the stuff he's written other than Prydain. And I think I read a Tanith Lee book about a unicorn? It at least had a unicorn on the cover.

[moirla.livejournal.com]

oh, well then by all means :) I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia before I see the movie. I'm hoping it isn't like the time I refused to see Jurassic Park until I finished the book and spent the entire movie laughing :\.

[beththeevilone.livejournal.com]

Tanith Lee is the only author there I know. Some of her stuff is really good. Most of that has come from my book club so i don't remeber the titltes.

[mikekn]

I read the Prydain books many many years ago and then read the first two books of the Westmark series. But then other stuff got in the way and I never got to the third book. So, twenty years later, here I am :)

Tanith Lee does have a Unicorn series (Black Unicorn, Gold Unicorn, Red Unicorn).

[mikekn]

Lloyd Alexander wrote The Black Cauldron (among others), which Disney made into a movie back in 1985.

Mark Crilley used to do a comic called Akiko, and put out a few books with the same characters.

I'm a big fan of Tanith Lee (a quick count says I have over 75 of her books). Some of her very early work and now some of her recent stuff has been kids books or young adult. She's also got a bunch of sword and sorcery type stuff, and dark gothic stuff.

[rjsilverthorn.livejournal.com]

Well Disney made a movie, but it was a very loose adaptation of the book. It was also kind of odd since Black Cauldron wasn't even the first book of the series.

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

I dont consider a lot of the books "for kids", I consider them "clean enough to not be embarrassed to show a mom, but still worth reading".

I would love Alexander if not for the fact that my *very creepy* 6th grade teacher was the one who introduced him to us!

Narnia is, to me, the perfect book set. I loved them, I still love them, I cant not love them. Hope the movie doesnt suck, but with Tilda Swinton, I cant imagine it will be totally screwed up. Inspired casting, from what I see so far.

I havent been reading as much as I would like to, because I am afraid to run out of good books.

[mikekn]

Agreed. But it's something folks may have heard about even if they don't know the author.

[mikekn]

I've never actually read the Narnia books - I don't even own a copy (I've got some other C.S. Lewis stuff, but I've not read that either).

Even if I were to more then double my rate of reading, it would be ten years before I run out of good books in the house. And that's not even counting the good books I'd pick up during the ten years.

Movie Blechs

[gerdawr.livejournal.com]

It might be a combination of Book of Three (the first in the series) and Black Cauldron, but it was (in the style of Eisner Disney) a terribly loose adaptation, and on a whole not worth the rental fee.

I get the feeling it was a case of one person reading the book, describing it to the Disney crew, and someone else pressing for fluffy characters.

Down with the Evil Rat!