The Graveyard Book

Another fantastic book. I loved it! A great read or listen!

I aways love his books. Fantasy. Mischief. Wonderful listen. I wish there was more!

I enjoyed this book immensely to my surprise. The adventure of it and the writing style kept me coming back. The only real violence was in the first chapter ( with characters I wasn’t engaged with), so a book with no sex and violence had to have a great story. I know it was written for teens but at 72, I’d follow Bod out of that graveyard if I could.

I enjoyed the story and Gaiman's reading of it is fantastic. Treat yourself and listen to this audio version!

A well imagined, enjoyable and entertaining tale, worth the time to listen even as a 68-year-old man.

I like it okay enough, but it's not my favourite Neil Gaiman book. But it's absolutely worth reading.

What a perfect spooky book. Nobody Owens I hope you enjoy all.

I love that this book started with a knife. I was hooked from that opening. A fascinating tale.

It is a wonderful story, I love it.
The character is a very likable boy that goes through a very fun and entertaining adventure. It was a charming and soft paced story with an ending I enjoyed and gave me a sense of completion. The audiobook was great and the narrator told the story smoothly.
Thank you for having this lovely story available.

One of my all time favourite books. I highly recommend it.

A lovely little story; I truly enjoyed the journey. Usually, I like to listen to an audiobook along with a paper copy to fiction- but this one was easy to follow without a paper copy.

Great book. Loved it. Wonderful characters. Very enjoyable to listen to

Best narration I have heard on an audio book yet! Fun story with surprising twists!

I so enjoyed the author narrating the book. I plan on reading or listening to more of his books.

“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands."

This was another great book written and narrator by Neil Gaiman. It is a great world in and out of a graveyard.

The writing was amazing, the plot unique and the narration by the author outstanding.

Great book I enjoyed listening to every minute of it

A touching story with a lovable group of characters in a creepy, yet quaint graveyard. I’ll remember Bod and his friends for a good long while, and keep them close to my heart.

macabre & yet delightful. Puts life &death in perspective

I?ll never think of a ?jack of all trades? the same. Adorable story! Bod is one of those character that will be missed.

I'm not really sure how to review this and it took me two days to mark this a "read" just because I was trying to think of a worthy review. No such luck; this is the best I've got.

I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. I did like it a lot.

As I read the first few pages I was wondering why everyone had such a hard-on for Neil Gaiman's writing, because I didn't like what I was reading. But later I had to attribute that to the fact that I had just finished a very sad book and the opening pages of this book were also sad. However, as I read on, I stopped being sad and became intrigued. This book literally takes place in a graveyard. It was interesting watching Bod grow from a precocious toddler into a determined young man. The people he met and the adventures he went on were exciting.

I think the only complaint I can give is that I didn't love it like I thought I would, but that could have more to do with me than the book itself. Sometimes when things get built up so big, they're almost too big, and it sets us up for disappointment. So many people have told me how wonder Neil Gaiman's books are and most reviews I've read on his work is excellent, but it always boils down to personal preference and you headspace when reading something. Peraphs if I had read this prior to the other book or a few months from now I would have had a different feeling. Perhaps not.

I can say that I did enjoy reading this book and I do look forward to reading other works by Mr Gaiman.

Wonderful book. Story full of imagination and love how Neil Gaiman read it with fun character voices.

I have been a comic book geek for as long as I can remember and one of the names constantly batted around in that genre is Neil Gaiman because of his successful "Sandman" series for DC Comics. I finally felt that it was time to read a book that he has written, so I picked up "The Graveyard Book" from Bracken Library on Ball State University campus. The book is truly a gem in their collection.

The book centers on a boy that lives in a graveyard. The story progresses in a fantastical manner that keeps the reader engaged. Never have I felt so invested in a story as this one. Almost every single moment that you are reading you wonder what will happen next in the story. For a book to keep you so well gripped throughout shows how well the book is plotted out. The written word is simplistic in nature, but each one seems like it was plucked out of a hat with care. You want to keep reading this book and that is when you know a book is truly genious!

Very entertaining and Gaiman done great justice to the characters

My first encounter with Neil Gaiman was several years ago in his Sandman graphic novel series... I started the first one, got too scared and had to put it down. Last year I was reintroduced to his work The Ocean at the End of the Lane in a book club and could not put it down. I heard that The Graveyard Book had a similar tone, so I got it from the library. And it's true!I didn't want this book to end. It's telling is sweet and sad and a little bit dark. It reminded me a little of Grimm's Fairy Tales in its nonchalant approach to murder. Though I didn't find it as compelling the whole way through as The Ocean (I think because it is a children's/tween aged book and I'm 35) but I really enjoyed the read. The characters are explored beautifully and plot is developed thoughtfully, the story is believable while still being obviously fantastical.I read this book for this years book bingo square entitled "a retelling of a classic" because the story is intended to pay homage to Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book". It truly is a coming of age tale, and like Mowgli struggles between the wild and the tame, Bod struggles with his 'gift' of straddling the border between the living and the dead. The reason is very similar, I think, in the living and the tame both lack the wisdom of surrender inherent to the wild and the dead. The depth of this perspective is vital to true happiness in life and bares repeating over and over. I hope the generations exposed to The Graveyard Book gain wisdom from this book and are enticed to read the Jungle Book over again as adults.I'm giving this book four stars because while it opened my mind and deepened my sense of living life, I don't know that I would read it over. I would definitely recommend it to others though!

I loved listening to this book. The characters were so diverse and lovable. I found it hard to stop listening. I thought the ending was sad but also happy. I’ve become a loyal fan of Neil Gaiman

i love it, just how the way the story goes and the character in it

What a poetically beautiful tale. The best Neil Gaiman book I’ve experienced to date. I love other of his works but this was just wow. Even though it’s available to me free through my Scribd subscription I plan on purchasing the Audible version of this novel. I will listen to it over & over again throughout the coming years. With so many books to read, only a few fall into that rare category of “must read/listen to, again (& again)”.

Gaiman’s performance was outstanding. He easily gave the characters distinct & credible voices. What an exceptionally talented man. I cried as the novel came to a close. The characters became very real to me and I miss them already. Bravo, Mr. Gaiman.

The Graveyard Book was like a darker combination of Harry Potter and the Jungle Book. A coming of age story where a small boy Nobody Owens finds himself orphaned and being raised by a graveyard full of ghosts and 1 possible vampire (this is never really made clear) while being hunted by an assassin with a keen sense of smell. I was not a big fan of the way the book was written, meaning each chapter was in itself a short story that followed the same general timeline. Also, I wished he would have spent more time with the ghosts themselves, I would have liked to have learned more about each of them. Overall though, I loved the story and can't wait to dive into another of Gaiman's books.