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Summary: Madly Morbid and Sadistically Savouring
Review: Amazing. Simply amazing. Everyone should own this book. Actually, a great many people would probably hate this book. Buy this book only if you think that dead baby jokes are funny. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Edward Gorey is a frickin genius.
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Summary: Wowwy Wow Wow Wow
Review: Amazing. Simply amazing. Everyone should own this book. Actually, a great many people would probably hate this book. Buy this book only if you think that dead baby jokes are funny. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Edward Gorey is a frickin genius.
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Summary: A collection of black comedies done in the finest form.
Review: Anoyone who watches PBS's "Mystery!" just for the opening title needs to read this book and probaly already has. As for the rest of you, it is a worthy read in any contex. The words are often halarious and the drawings are deeply detailed and beautiful. Gorey is very dark in both his art and in his words, but even through this haze he has a light-hartedness that shines through. It's not a deep read, but it is well worth it. If Poe could have drawn, this would be him
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Summary: Best of Gorey
Review: Black comedy at its darkest, wittiest, and oddest. Gorey is an acquired taste - but definitely worth a look. This is a compilation of many of his most famous works, as cleverly illustrated as written
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Summary: Always entertaining and Delightfully macabre.
Review: Edward Gorey is a talented artist whose gothic style goes hand in hand with his simple, yet delightfully written prose. I first read this book in High School and searched for it years later when I saw Gorey's artwork at the beginning of PBS' "Mystery." This book is a literary treasure. Some stories are amusing. Some are tear-jerkers. Some are downright horrifying. All are wonderfully illustrated and delightfully entertaining.
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Summary: Always entertaining and Delightfully macabre.
Review: Edward Gorey is a talented artist whose gothic style goes hand in hand with his simple, yet delightfully written prose. I first read this book in High School and searched for it years later when I saw Gorey's artwork at the beginning of PBS' "Mystery." This book is a literary treasure. Some stories are amusing. Some are tear-jerkers. Some are downright horrifying. All are wonderfully illustrated and delightfully entertaining.
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Summary: No-nonsense verse, a very necessary composition
Review: Edward Gorey was a master of the macabre. Seemingly inappropriate, always bizarre, Mr. Gorey walked the taboo tightrope in his stories and illustrations. Here are fifteen such delightfully atrocious tales, compiled for the convenience of his very demented fans (including yours truly). First is "The Unstrung Harp" about a befuddled and (in appearance) paranoid writer who trudges through his maddening existence, as so many a writer inevitably will. The casual reader might find this tale odd, but anyone who has ever taken to writing seriously will feel nothing but empathy. Has one of the greatest ending lines of any story I've ever read. Next is "The Listing Attic", a series of devilish ryhmes with correlating illustrations. Many of these are horrible in design yet strangely you'll find yourself laughing at the unfortunate mishaps that fall upon the characters. Now, on to "The Doubtful Guest" about a mysterious penguin-like creature that arrives at a residence only to act in a seemingly irrational way, doing things for inexplicable reasons. Personally I think this is nothing more than a metaphor for the unexpected in life and how it's more irrational for people to waste time trying to make sense out of these things. But that's just me. "The Object Lesson" is just plain confusing, as if Mr. Gorey was just penning random thoughts and then illustrating them. Definitely weird. "The Bug Book" is pretty childish in design and, to me, not particuarly noteworthy. "The Fatal Lozenge" is another series of ryhmes, although the level of morbidity and violence is pretty much maxed out. Reading these you won't find yourself able to laugh, only maybe able to produce a nervous twitter as you ponder how very real these situations could be. "The Hapless Child" is nothing short of a masterpiece, evoking every emotion from love to terror this tragedy should have a place in American high school curriculum, but alas public education systems in this nation would rather not deal with horrible reality. "The Curious Sofa" is an attack on preconceived notions of sexual morality, being pornographic only in suggestion the point is that if someone who considered him/herself to be in the right in his/her sexual ideals he/she wouldn't understand the innuendo of the words and illustrations. A very interesting piece. "The Willowdale Handcar" is a story I didn't like. "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" has to be my favorite Edward Gorey piece, a sinister telling of the Alphabet with a small child meeting its demise for each letter, kind of an anti-Alligators All Around. I have a separate review posted for this story as it is deserving of the title of literature. "The Insect God" is another disturbing work involving intelligent, and apparently religious, giant sized bugs. "The West Wing" is a series of illustrations that force the reader to create his/her own captions for what is depicted. "The Wuggly Ump" is a silly song about a very hungry monster. "The Sinking Spell" is another tale of an unexpected visitor, a creature on an indecipherable journey. Last, is "The Remembered Visit" about a woman who can't forget the odd travels of her youth or her meeting of a once famous man. That's it, the coffee table book to beat all coffee table books, the ultimate conversation piece. But, then again, everything Edward Gorey did was worthy of conversation.
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Summary: Gorey has friends
Review: Gorey is an excellent artist of morbid tales. He ranks up there with Tim Burton. I recommend them both very much.
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Summary: excellent bed-time reading
Review: gorey's beautifully detailed pen-and-ink drawings give us worlds where children are kidnapped by insects, victorian characters die of ennui and the terror of three bogglingly heartless tourists strikes us as a pyramid of cannon balls. children always meet hideous fates, adults are typically buffoons, demons lurk darkly in tiny details. all these wonderfully creepy visions make me sad i don't have children to read amphigorey to as bedtime stories.
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Summary: humourous!
Review: i bought and read this book many years before, recently i picked it up and read it again, and still found it very interesting. His works can put a stone on your heart but full of critical sense of humour. His worldview and style set up a magical link between the present and the gothic time. What can i say? I am obsessed with his philosophy and books......
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