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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Coraline the graphic novel

I found this copy in our campus library; it's the graphic novel version. This is actually the first graphic novel I've read. The story itself is pretty creepy -- just thinking about the parents with black buttons for eyes is spooky, but seeing it on the page is downright gross. I'm not sure if reading it as a graphic novel is good or not, as you don't get to let your imagination make it scarier and grosser than the pictures in the novel. Now I want to read the "regular" version.

Coraline, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell, 2008, NY: Harper Collins
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