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Summary: Gorey Indeed
Review: I recommend this book to all who want a good laugh. I can't contain myself from laughing when I read this, and everybody that I have ever shown it to has loved it. What a great book! This book was my first exposure to Edward Gorey and I plan to buy more of his books in the future.
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Summary: Delightfully sick
Review: Not certain why this grisly little picture book is so appealing - perhaps it's the stark contrast between the usual cutesy alphabet picture books and the various ends that the children listed by their names meet. ""A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away." Those are only the first of this bizarrely-rhyming, darkly-illustrated little book. It's very short, but I found myself wishing that Mr. Gorey had gone on into numbers as well, perhaps into retellings of fairy tales. ;) If you are a reader who likes sweet, happy content, you will loathe this book utterly. If you don't mind a volume that is twisted and sick in a way that will make you laugh out loud, then by all means scootle to buy this!
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Summary: Ennui
Review: I didn't know what ennui was until I read "Gashlycrumb", but now I'm sure I have it! I saw this first in poster form and fell in Love. Don't get me wrong, I love kids, but don't we all need to bring our darkside into the light? I have several of Mr. Gorey's books and I'm amazed where I find his art. Did you know he illustrated the original "Addams Family"? From playbills to popular catalogs I have enjoyed his whimsical eeriness. From an era when impolite words were whispered Edward gorey screams of impoliteness without really offending. Is it your own jaded mind or is something really kinky going on and your missing out on all the fun(read the"couch" book)? He also illustrated T.S. Elliots "Cats" book that the never-ending musical is based on. In short, really talented guy.
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Summary: awesome, and a little masanthropic
Review: I just recently received THE GASHLYCRUMB TINIES, and it is in fact my first Edward Gorey book. I absolutely loved it. A warning for those people who love children: do not buy this book, you will be horrified and will "perish of fits", just like little Susan.
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Summary: Deadly amusing...
Review: It's morbid and sick, but you have to love anything that rhyms the word ennui. Everyone should own this book!
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Summary: Wonderfully Macabre
Review: If you enjoy black humor, you may enjoy this slim volume of rhymes and spindly characters. A great thing to break out by the fireside with intimates after a filling holiday meal. Even my grandmother enjoyed it.
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Summary: Humor and horror
Review: are the original Chang and Eng of literature, as (I think) Stephen King said. Why, I don't know. Maybe what's horrible in life is funny in fiction--the Three Stooges are funny on the screen but would be a castastrophe in life. And this book is certainly an example of such humor and horror. What happens to every child is simply ghastly. Yet you can't help but laugh. And it's even funnier because it rhymes! And Gorey's Gothic black-and-white drawings are gems; the expressions on the doomed children's faces...they're terrible, but you just can't help but laugh. And children, for some reason, just love this stuff. It certainly would be a good way to teach them the alphabet. Except, of course, for the fact any school that used this book would be under parental assault, not to mention lawsuits.
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Summary: for those few with a morbid sense of humor
Review: i am not a cold blooded murderess. i am a mere child with a morbid sense of humor. this exceptionally good story met my gorey standards.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: This is my favorite Edward Gorey volume. If you like this, you'll like Tim Burton's "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories."
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Summary: Horrifying and Amusing at Once
Review: This little tale goes thru the Alphabet by telling us how 26 little children met their doom. The gothic illustrations are terribly delightful and the prose is wickedly dark humor at its best.
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