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Coraline Audiobook is a dark fantasy children’s story by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins.
This book was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers.
Plot Summary
In Coraline’s family’s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it’s different…
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom. But there’s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Neil Gaiman – Coraline Audiobook Reviews
Coraline, not Caroline, thank you, the little female who was small for her age, and determined herself in darkest risk used to be the problem of Neil Gaiman’s 2002 publication, which was in Gaiman’s own words “refreshingly creepy.”
Gaiman stated that he started writing the audiobook for his younger daughter Holly round the time they moved to America but, unintentionally, wrote it very slowly, “one phrase at a time” and hence stretched out the task for years. Refreshingly creepy is maybe the exceptional way to describe this young grownup work that additionally has darker elements, references to myth and the occult that will probably fly over the heads of younger listeners. Older listeners will find Coraline living down the road from Charles Addams’s location and additionally outdoor neighbors of Ray Bradbury’s The October Country folks.
“There was a tiny doubt inner her, like a maggot in an apple core.”
But Gaiman’s Coraline in no way achieves the campy enjoyable of Addams or Bradbury, leaning alternatively towards a Tim Burtonesque darkness that is charming in its very own way. (Though the 2009 movie was once directed via Burton collaborator Henry Selick).
Gaiman masterfully blends haunting elements of midnight thriller with his own inimitable fashion of writing, to create a placing for Coraline Audiobook Mp3 to explore. Coraline’s plucky little girl, written soberly for a barely greater mature reader, struggles perfectly with the arcane machinations of the other mother.
“It doth not hurt,” whispered one faint voice.
Finally, Gaiman’s unique capability to craft a sepulchral area of interest that is akin to Lovecraft however greater playful reminds the reader of his high-quality work The Graveyard Audiobook. An amazing introduction to his canon, this is also a must-listen for a Gaiman fan.
Who doesn’t like a freaky middle-grade audiobook to snack on (at nighttime) ever as soon as and a while? I was in the mood for something freakish and gothic. I obtained it. (Plus, writing research for middle-grade audiobooks. I am a writer, after all.)
So between taking notes about fashion and description and length of MG audiobooks, I loved the story immensely. A lot of a lot, okay? It’s written in such a simple way. It possibly mentions about three or 4 times how Coraline is sincerely feeling. The relaxation is a fact. This happened, and then that happened, and then right here let’s describe the disembodied hand with red fingernails – okay, then this happened. That is epic storytelling. Who can manipulate to sound freaky and creepy besides without a doubt telling the reader to have crept? Neil Gaiman, apparently.
The storyline is simple and delicious. It narrates Coraline’s instead boring existence in her new condo (in England too, I like English audiobooks a lot) and then goes on to describe what occurs when she goes through the door. There’s a talking and sarcastic cat (it almost makes me like cats, and I’m very antagonistic to the vast creatures). There are marbles. There are teenagers except souls locked in closets. Good stuff.
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Neil Gaiman – Coraline is now available in audible format, almost 3 hrs and 35 mins, the narration by himself is so enticing that you get hooked instantly.