Book Review: The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy
Trip Start
Jul 19, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 31, 2009
Bangkok,
Thailand
Friday, August 1, 2008
The HMV store in Hong Kong have a small book section. They seem to fill it with those books that are considered the "cool reads" at any given time. A couple of years ago I spotted this book and recalled a very good review that I had read about it. I liked Tim Burton movies and thought he had a different outlook than most directors, so I was curious what he would do in a book of short stories.
In summary, what a huge disappointment. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! It is not a collection of short stories; it is 113 pages of very poor poems interspersed with doodles, sorry illustrations, by the author. The poems are poor, the doodles are poor and the book took less than 40 minutes to get from front to back. Not the most satisfying of holiday reads
Book reviewed
.I will leave you with an example of one of the openings, and then I'll move on to something more useful than spending my time writing about this bad bad effort.
Page 85
"The park was empty except for a squirrel,
and a birthday party for a Mexican girl"
Oh, and in case you didn't realize, that was suppose to rhyme! Shocker.
1 out of 5
Comments
My Rhyming Skills - 4.5 stars!!
Hoo-hoo, my rhyming skills are better than. And to think how much I was maligned in the past for my rhyming skills...
Re: My Rhyming Skills - 4.5 stars!!
Now don't get too confident, Tim Burton messed up his rhyming in one book, you have messed up your rhyming over many many months ;-)