Last night, I finished Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It was a good book. I think that I was a little disappointed with the ending. There were definitely some discrepancies between the book and the movie. For example, there wasn't a friend Coraline's age in the book, and there wasn't a doll that the other mother sent into Coraline's world to spy on her. I think the ending may have been a little more climactic in the movie, but I can't remember. Overall, it is a good book. Although, it didn't actually pass my first page test. Despite that, I kept reading, because I really wanted to see how the story played out in the book. Coraline is such a wonderfully strange and eerie story. I struggled to embrace the deceptively simple narration in the book, but it is a children's short novel. That said, I do think that the simple narrative ends up being a powerful asset to telling the story. The narration is simple and innocent, which ultimately, allows for the story to be so strange and eerie.
More ideas for my story...they came to me while I was shaving before work one afternoon. The king and queen wear porcelain masks. It is rumored that they are even more beautiful than their daughter, and that people would be driven mad by their beauty. The dragon first, then the witch. This'll build up the tension more. I think I mentioned this: witches abhor beauty.
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