M is for Magic
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 | Product Details: Paperback 272 pages Release Date: 03 March 2008 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 0747595682 Rating:   Sales Rank: 13578 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: Over-hyped (01 January 2009)After Stardust (a film that sounds awful but is actually very good) I was given this book to try. It is written by Neil Gaiman, who the Times newspaper said was the best thing since J.K. Rowling. Well I have to say I was fairly dissapointed. Some are good and well thought out but others are deadpan, middle of the road and to put it into one word: Boring. Mediocre. Not what I was expecting at all. I think that he can only be brilliant when he has a team of other writers behind him. Thanks for reading my review. I hope this has helped. Not many new stories (21 October 2007)Most of these short stories are found in Neil Gaiman's other anthologies: 'Smoke and Mirrors' and 'Fragile Things', so expect nothing new except for the first and last story, if you already have these 2 books. If you haven't, then this is probably a good way begin. Whilst the stries themselves are exceptional, for this book itself, if it wasnt for the addition of 2 new stories, I may have given it 3 stars, as you are better off sticking to the other anothologies. Courtesy of Teens Read Too (20 August 2007)M IS FOR MAGIC is a collection of eleven short stories. This book was geared for elementary/middle school but I thought that I couldn't read many of the stories aloud in my classroom because some of the themes are pretty adult. I liked many of the stories, especially THE WITCH'S HEADSTONE. This was a story about a real boy who was living in a graveyard and being raised by ghosts. He decides to do a very kind thing for a ghost who didn't get a gravestone and the story follows the adventure that goes with that decision. I also enjoyed THE CASE OF FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS. It was a detective story set with nursery rhyme characters. The detective needs to solve the mystery of who killed Humpty Dumpty. It is told with attitude and is very funny. There are also stories that are scary or just plain creepy. The story about the jack-in-the-box just gave me chills. So if you want to read some good, strange stories that only take about an hour to read, check this book out. Reviewed by: Marta Morrison | |
