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Summary: It Tickles...
Review: Is it wrong to find unusual deaths of young children, from A to Z, so amusing? All drawn in classic Gorey style, the children are shown mere moments before their somewhat outlandish deaths. A fun & brief coffee table book, my favourite is "N is for Neville who died of ennui" - the drawing is perfect!
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Summary: Lovely
Review: The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a delightful little book with horridly wonderful illustrations, and a neat little rhyming alphebet poem that will amuse you in spite of yourself, as long as you like twisted humor that is. It's a sturdy little hardcover book, I loved the cover illustration. The book IS very little, as an alphebet book it only contains 26 real pages (the listing is higher because every-other page is blank), so while it is a fun book, it is very short lived. I consider it worth it anyway, but I thought that the prospective buyer might like to be warned.
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Summary: T is for Titus who flew into bits.
Review: I discovered the twisted genius of Edward Gorey as a lad in rural Oregon. Some subversive, or uninformed, librarian in our small town had stocked the cartoon book section of the library with several Gorey books and I devoured each with fiendish glee!
Thus began my slow decent into the murky world of cynical humor. What a delicious trip it has been.
Mr Gorey also produced the opening credits for PBS' Mystery! series in the 1980's to my utter delight. I would often watch the credits only and skip the predictable british fare that followed.
The character referred to in my title is my favorite Gorey drawing. It shows our poor mr. Titus, a rather dull looking lad, holding a package that will, no doubt, bring about his rude demise. That is the genius of Gorey's works, so much is left to the imagination that it's like running a mental marathon! So few works of modern writing encourage your brain to "fill in the blanks". This is the stuff that will leave you begging for more.
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Summary: extremely funny and intellegent.
Review: If you liked the infamous "I Feel Sick" you should definately consider this hilarious epic. As some of the other reviews have stated, this is totally witty, mind stimulating, and edgy through and through.
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Summary: A lesson with laughter.
Review: When I was a boy, my mother read to me the short poem of Solomon Grundy. It went - Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on a Tuesday, Married On a Wednesday, Took ill on a Thursday, Worse on a Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on a Sunday. This is the end of Solomon Grundy. I don't remember how young I was, but I was startled by the short life of this Solomon Grundy character. It also made me wonder about death. Not in a depressive, fearful way, but in a curious way. Even though I wasn't intellectually tuned to metaphor , my unconscious understood that though we don't die in a week, we do die - whatever dieing meant to me in those days. It was a lesson. A lesson wrapped in a tale for the young at heart. Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies teaches us the same lesson, but it also contains the one ingredient we need to extinguish the fear of death ( for a time ). Humor. We see the calamity of it's characters and we laugh. But we laugh because we are kin to the absurdity. The greatest ill a parent can do to a child is to deceive that child from the truth. The Gashlycrumb Tinies allows us to tell the truth, one step at a time. Laughter and death, something we all have in common. Solomon Grundy or The Gashlycrumb Tinies - thanks Mom. Otto ...
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Summary: A Modern Morality Tale
Review: Terrific satire of the morality tales of days past. We laugh now, but books like this were actually read to young children to warn them of the woes of society and the wages of living like children. This books take up where those books left off and turns it up a notch. Very humorous rhymes and sometimes chilling drawings, but for the most part the situations are ridiculous enough to laugh at, particularily the child who dies of ennui. Edward Gorey's drawings call to mind the art of Charles Addams, though even darker if you can beleive that! If you enjoy dark satire then you will enjoy this book. If you find yourself to be extremely sensitive then don't even bother to pick it up.
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Summary: Morbidly Hysetrical
Review: I was really only aware of Gorey's work from the opening credits of PBS's MYSTERY series, but after ordering this book as a curiosity for my store..., I fell in love with Gorey's deliciously twisted sense of humor -- our customers did too. Over the past year, we have reordered the book - up to 10 copies deep each time - and it always sells out within 3 days! While never truly grotesque, this ABC picture book of small children succumbing to death by pick axe, well and murderers would by description offend most people. However, the humor is so irreverent and out of left field you'll most likely find yourself giggling, hoping no one will see you. You probably be embarrasssed to admit you like it, but at least you'll be howling when you do.
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Summary: freaky
Review: This is a great book, full of morbid humor and awesome pictures. The only thing that freaks me out is that the only child who is seen after death with an ax in her chest is Kate. Since that is my name, it's kind of scary, but the rest of the book is great. A hilarious book. Truly gorey.
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Summary: Dr. Suess it's not!
Review: No, you won't be reading this to your pre-schoolers (at least I won't be), and it does take a rather perverse sense of humour to appreciate this book, however it had me giggling all the way throught the ABC's.
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Summary: No, he's not British....
Review: ...but this book is done in an undeniably British style. It's really truly brilliant. The demises of these 26 toddlers are morbidly hysterical, and the art is truly wonderful. I believe my favorite of the demises was the child who "died of ennui". (Regretfully, I don't own this and can't remember his name.) This book is great for anyone with a decidedly macabre sense of humor.
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