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This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level.
Book Description
From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children -- misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings -- hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway).
Customer Reviews:
very weir look inside Tim Burton's mind.......2007-08-16
I bought this as a gift for my wife, who is a big Tim Burton fan. It went over great! The book is nicely printed hardcover, making a good gift presentation. The illustrations and poetry are sometimes disturbing, but that was to be expected.
A book of NOT SO CURIOUS curiosities.......2007-06-28
Frankly, I didn't find this book to be very creative or interesting. Many of the vignettes are much too short to evoke any humor or feelings. The author seems to have glanced at his surroundings and made a boy or girl character out of things ranging from stains to matches and then proceeded to make up obvious stories about them. (Surprise, surprise, the match girl was "hot" and burned up her stick lover.) The three stars is for the illustrations and the melancholy concept.
Darkly entertaining.......2007-03-18
Melancholy is the right word for the mood of this little book! The drawings and the rhymes are so simple, yet they evoke such emotion - I was horrified in a gleeful sort of way - 'uh oh, I can't believe where this is heading' - it's so grim and sad, yet I found myself laughing out loud. Definitely for those with a certain sense of humour.
My 1st time.......2007-03-09
This book is my first time with Tim Burton's poetry.
I must say that is strange but very good!
The Melancholy Death of Oster Bay : and Other Stories.......2007-03-08
Tim Burton is a master at what he does. This is a cute book of short stories and poems, which are slightly creepy and incredibly clever. I loved it.
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This sexy, funny novel, first published as an electronic book, proves there's still room in the Florida caper genre for a newcomer. Jane Ellen Ashley is a gorgeous blue-eyed oyster shucker who's on the run because she believes she caused the accidental drowning of a prominent Senator's slightly inebriated son. And Happy Harry Harper is a down-on-his-luck English professor who's also fleeing a Caribbean island because he thinks he's wanted for a murder he may or may not have committed. When two seasick mobsters offer him money to sail their boat back to Miami and transport a coffin they swear holds the body of a Honduran national hero whose family wants to bury him in their adopted land, it looks like the answer to Harry's prayers. How Jane Ellen and Harry manage to evade their pursuers, find each other, and save the pristine fishing grounds of her beloved Apalichola Bay makes for one of the wittiest romps through territory previously claimed by plenty of other writers from Carl Hiaasen to Dave Barry. Oyster Blues is a side-splitting debut from a writer to watch. --Jane Adams
Book Description
"Happy" Harry Harper is anything but. He has to get off a Caribbean island quick before someone nails him for a murder that may or may not be his doing. Desperate, he takes a job from two mob goons to sail their boat to Miami with a coffin -- the contents of which are dubious at best.
Then he meets Jane Ellen Ashley, a blazing blue-eyed oyster shucker (who also might have accidentally killed somebody), and the trouble really rolls in. They've just stumbled onto a big-money scam involving some very dangerous people -- which puts them on the endangered species list.
Now, they're both on the run from...well, pretty much everyone. And while Harry wants to make Jane his catch of the day, Jane wants to save her beloved Apalachicola Bay -- and both of them want to avoid a fatal case of the...Oyster Blues
Customer Reviews:
Because there is no zero.......2005-06-23
Comparing this book to Hiaasen, Leonard, Dorsey, or Barry is like comparing Shakespeare to comic books. It's a sacrilege. I was suckered into buying it because of all the hype about what a funny Florida crime romp it was. What a terrible disappointment I suffered. While the story sounds promising, the writer has a tendency to go off on tangents that are just plain boring. I really didn't care enough about a chicken carcass being thrown overboard and sinking to the bottom of the ocean to read about it for three pages. Every situation is explained to absolute death, and I found myself yawning endlessly until I finally, joyously, reached the end. I recoiled in horror when I saw a new book by the same author in bookstores. Reading this one was enough to put me off this writer forever, and warn everyone I can reach! I am absolutely stunned that people liked it. Whoever compared this drivel to Hiaasen, Leonard, Dorsey, or Barry should be sued for libel.
Comedy with a plot.......2005-05-30
The Florida crazy novel moves from the Keys, up the coast to the big bend. I am not sure if the panhandle can sustain the required level of craziness found in Key West, but after all there are enough islands in the area and with Talahassee and Gainsville nearby a big enough supply of characters to render up rogues and clowns. There is a strong whiff of Dorsey here, but with a bit more plot and maybe not as much bitterness. I guess this style of novel will be around until all of Florida is walled, like Key West in the last fifteen years, by seasonal condos for the rich and beautiful. While the main plot is the ecological disaster of a foreign species in the Bay (see Hall and White) the ultimate goal is real estate speculation. Not so far from reality when one considers the half million run up in asking price for fish shacks on Cedar Key or St George over ten years and the exile of locals up the rivers.
Some of the language games are a lot of fun. "Quiet " Quinones who cannot shut up except when El Jeffe commands "Quiet!" or the supposed murder victim: "Champion Rooster." The Cuban coffee shops, the Miami street scenes and mangrove vets all give a picture of the multi cultural Florida that has to stimulate wit. Not a serious book, but fit for an afternoon or two on a beach chair.
A Riotous Romp.......2004-07-22
Reading a book this funny, this slyly plotted, this salty and satiric, this madcap and quirky, this irreverent, this outrageously uplifting -- well, hell, if it ain't a crime, then it sure ought to be required reading for anyone suffering the blues, "the oyster blues," that is (smile).
Since others have summarized so well here, I'll simply say I finished the book and then started reading it again. It's that good and that much fun. You'll relish that the a***oles get their due, that the guy gets the girl, that a treasure of a bay along the forgotten coast of Florida is preserved, that sometimes life works out just fine.
Give yourself a treat. Read this book. It goes down as easy as cotton candy with the taste of finely broiled shrimp. Move over Dorsey, Leonard, and Hiaasen. If you don't, McClelland will simply elbow his way in (which I think he's already done).
Another Trip to the Sunshine State.......2004-03-29
So I'm a sucker for this Florida stuff. It seems every month or so I run into another author taking on the wild and wacky turf of the Sunshine State. The latest find was Michael McClelland's Oyster Blues. This is a tale of near murders, dirty politics, not so bright mobsters and of course a couple of clueless lovesick bookworms who stumble onto a conspiracy. Nothing groundbreaking here, but a lot of wacky, off the wall charm. McClelland creates some fun and memorable, though utterly unbelievable, characters and puts them in a clever and enjoyable plot to make a fun read. My only qualm is I think at points McClelland may have tried too hard to insert some wackiness in his book. At one point Jane, the female lead, comes off as way to naive when answering some basic medical questions for a girl as well read as herself, yet later in the book figures out the entire conspiracy based on an obscure reference to a specific fish.
The inevitable comparisons will come so, no this book is not up to par with Hiaasen at his best, or even Tim Dorsey, but the potential is absolutely there. For a first time novelist, this was a first rate entry into an ever growing genre.
oyster blues should be a movie!.......2004-03-04
a friend traded this with me for the last juror.i couldn't put it down! delightful, different, and touching.
Book Description
With comparisons to Flaubert, Chekhov, and Faulkner, O. Henry Award-winner John Biguenet earned wide acclaim for his debut short-story collection, The Torturer's Apprentice. In his astonishing first novel, Oyster, he demonstrates the same mastery of craft and rigor of vision that led critics across the country to join Robert Olen Butler in praising this "important new writer."
Set on the Louisiana coast in 1957, Oyster recounts the engrossing tale of a deadly rivalry between two families. To avoid ruin after years of declining oyster crops, Felix and Mathilde Petitjean offer their young daughter, Therese, in marriage to 52-year-old Horse Bruneau, who holds the papers on their boat and house. Bruneau has spent his life as Felix's rival for both the Petitjeans' century-old oyster beds and, as we learn, Mathilde. But as Therese explains to Horse one night as they float in a pirogue alone in the marsh, "I don't get bought for the price of no damn boat."
The spiraling violence of Oyster and the seething passions behind it drive an unpredictable tale of murder and revenge in which two women and the men who desire them play out a drama as elemental and inexorable as a Greek tragedy.
Customer Reviews:
Blood on the Bayou.......2006-12-03
Biguenet does a good job of taking us into the world of Louisiana oystermen (and women). As a Louisianan, the story made me wonder how much different or more difficult it is now to make a living as an oysterman, with the bayous disappearing and the lifestyle of the Cajuns being slowly squeezed out of existence. The in-book review likened "Oyster" to a Greek tragedy and I can see why, as power and revenge are played out among the characters. Be very careful of whose lives you try to control.
A Good Story Told Well.......2004-12-18
This review is for the first Ecco Paperback edition published in 2003, 291 pages. Ecco Press is an imprint of HarperCollins.
OYSTER by John Biguenet is the story of two rival families, the Bruneau's and the Petitjean's, who have the largest oyster leases in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Fifty-two year old Darryl Bruneau holds loans on Felix Petitjean's home and boat. Felix is on the verge of default. To avoid losing everything, Felix agrees to give Darryl his eighteen-year old daughter, Therese.
Oops, Therese has other ideas. She tells Darryl, "I don't get bought for the price on no damn boat." In one of the most engaging first chapters I've ever read, Therese irrevocably upsets her daddy's plans. Go to the bookstore and read the first seven pages of OYSTER by John Biguenet; I'll wager that you buy the book.
With masterful dialogue and just enough sensory detail, John Biguenet captures the sounds and feel of the oysterman's plight in the fall of 1957. There are some rough passages, like Mrs. Petitjean's confession to Therese, and occasionally Biguenet goes head hopping with omniscient POV, but he never forgets that it's all about story. This is a good story told well.
Downhill all the way.......2003-12-05
*Oyster* by John Biguenet begins so beautifully that it's a pity how far it bogs down as the story winds on. Initially, a wonderful, exotic ambience and a shocking deed capture the reader -- but once's s/he's captured, the reader is tortured with prose that grows ever more labored and didactic. Explaining the technical aspects of fishing-boat engines in the context of crime doesn't make them more interesting. And, having one character tell another how oystermen find their beds by checking trees on the bank doesn't make that exciting, either. These kinds of details can be lively and add to a book's power, but they have to be handled wisely.
At the end, the author's need to tie up all loose ends results in nearly a grade-schooler's obviousness and dull simplicity. What a pity! Perhaps this is the result of a first attempt to move from short stories into full-novel format. Biguenet has a gift, and it shows up early in this book, but it's betrayed by the rest. I wanted to continue to feel that bayou water on my skin as I read, but instead I felt a kind of irritation of the brain.
A page-turner.......2003-08-20
I don't often find a book I am reluctant to put down, but this one kept me going, even with the predictability of plot. The characters are realistic and believable. One sympathizes with them, in spite of their faults and cruelty. I was disappointed in Mathilde's overly long confession to her daughter of a youthful love affair. Why was she compelled to tell all on the night of her son's funeral when she had kept it a secret for two decades? The dialogue was true, catching the cadence and syntax of the Cajuns. Setting was done extremely well, and not overdone. Imagery borders on the poetic. Biguenet is a good writer, and we expect him to get better as time goes on.
Faulkner?? Not quite.......2003-07-15
How anyone who has read Faulkner can compare this book to his works is beyond comprehension to me. This book was average at best--certainly nothing approaching a classic. The protagonist is a cold-blooded murderer--yet this fact doesn't seem to bother anyone--least of all the author. The worst part of this novel was the amateurish gimmick of having Therese's mother tell her whole life story to her daughter over hot chocolate one night. Much easier than trying to weave those facts into an actual plot I guess. This book was a waste of my time.
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You won't find Outer Maroo on any map, and the people who live there intend to keep it that way. In Janette Turner Hospital's extraordinary new novel Oyster, this bleak, drought-stricken town in the Australian outback is home to a scant handful of religious fundamentalists and rowdy, gun-toting opal miners. United by their dislike for taxmen, the government, and "foreigners," the inhabitants have managed to keep their town's underground riches a secret from the world--until the day when a bloody, raving, but "quite strikingly beautiful" man staggers in from the desert and changes everything: "Then Oyster came, and quite soon after, jeeps began to announce themselves in small red clouds. There were campers and squatters, and they kept arriving as the zeros on the calendar got closer; or at any rate that was the connection that Oyster himself made, and the newcomers shared his belief, and so disposed themselves for a certain kind of future, now upon us."
In the weeks to come, the charismatic Oyster draws young drifters to his commune outside town, Oyster's Reef, where they become little more than slave labor in the Reef's opal fields. Seduced by his apocalyptic rhetoric or corrupted by his money, the town enters into a strange complicity with the mysterious guru, and anyone who dares to question the arrangement--including a local schoolteacher--conveniently disappears. Eventually, town and cult alike perish in a bloody firestorm that recalls events in Waco, Texas. Throughout, Turner Hospital expertly evokes the desert's shifting dreamscape, a land of pitiless light and heat where the atmosphere itself conspires to create illusion; narrated by a shifting cast of characters, moving back and forth in time, this eerie, hypnotic book often seems much the same way.
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Outer Maroo, Australia. Population 87. Here two opposing cultures - the fiercely individualistic bush folk and the church-going fundamentalists - used to co-exist peaceably. Until valuable opal reefs are discovered and lust, greed, and bigotry sweep through the dusty uncharted town.
Customer Reviews:
Horrific or Sublime.......2004-11-14
OYSTER is a literary tale about the fictional town of Outer Maroo in the bush outback of Queensland, Australia. The 87 residents of Outer Maroo don't want "foreigners," a term that applies to anyone not already in Outer Maroo, because they have something to hide: the ghastly happenings thirteen months ago at Oyster Reef, a religious commune.
There are no oysters on Oyster Reef. Oyster is the name the cult leader gave to his self. There are opals there, though. Oyster Reef is not a reef. It is way out in the outback beyond the end of the rail line, off the map. To get there, you'll need a four-wheel drive, extra petrol tanks, spare vehicle parts and a driver who knows the bush country. Foreigners can't buy round trip tickets, however.
The story begins when two foreigners, one from Melbourne and another from Boston, arrive in Outer Maroo, at high noon on Monday, looking for their young loved ones who were mesmerized by Oyster. From there, the author cleverly interweaves story and back-story, gradually untangles her characters and ultimately unravels Outer Maroo itself, all in a week's time.
OYSTER is the best work of literary fiction I can recall reading, and is more engaging than most of the genre and commercial fiction I've read. The prose crackles, the characters are vivid, the pace is precise and there are tasteful flavors of suspense, mystery, sci-fi and spice.
Janet Turner Hospital was born and raised on the steamy coast of Queensland. She knows the terrain, and the lingo too. Oops, there's a little problem there. Even if you're a reader adept at sliding over unknown words and pressing on, you still might feel you missed the lay of the land. I catalogued 46 words peculiar to Australia, New Zealand or Great Britain. Does your Ute have a roo bar or a bull bar? Did you ever go noodling through mullock or potch? You would know that a Jackamara woman would be tough, wise and ironic if you've read Mudrooroo, an aboriginal novelist. Did you ever eat barbequed jumbuck, charred goanna strips, fried emu eggs, or fire-toasted damper? That's all tucker. At least you should know about bora rings and corroborees that those Wankumara do (a.k.a. Wanggumara, Murii) and bore-water too.
There are fine threads about mirages and powerlessness in OYSTER, but the tightrope is cult religion, which stretches from the likes of Jonestown and Waco to Oyster Reef. Janet Turner Hospital writes succinctly. Religion, like sex, can be horrific or sublime.
Oh, The Horror!.......2004-08-24
Near the end of the last century in a small Australian opal mining town named Outer Maroo, so obscure that it is not found on any map, Oyster, a mysterious religious cult figure, mesmerizes almost everyone in the community. (Only Susannah Rover, the teacher, and Charles Given of the Living Word Church and a few others were not drawn to him.) Obsessed with the idea that something of cosmic proportions will happen in 2000, many of the inhabitants of this little town at first buy into the sayings of this stranger, dressed all in white and with "limpid blue opalescent" eyes. He is a most persuasive speaker: for example, "I will make you a fisher of opal. . .if you follow me." Later two strangers arrive in the village, looking for a son and daughter, who have mysteriously disappeared and who (they believe) were under the spell of Oyster. While Ms. Hospital's gifts as a storyteller are magnificent, it's hard to know if she was influenced by say Jim Jones and Jonestown in 1978 when 913 of his followers apparently committed suicide or David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in 1993 when 80 or more people perished. There are certainly parallels to be drawn as Ms. Hospital's subject obviously is timely. We had Heaven's Gate in 1997 when Applewhite and over 30 of his followers committed mass suicides. A cult figure in Georgia was recently convicted of sex crimes against children, and other religious crazy groups-- I personally know of one in Florida-- pop up like dandelions in the spring. This book says so much about religious extremists, sexual depravity in the name of God, mob psychology, and the nature of evil-- and hope too but only in lower case letters. Ms. Hospital, however, is somewhere way past Joseph Conrad and Nathaniel Hawthorne, just to name two writers obsesssed with the darkness of the human heart.
The author tells a wonderful tale and is as good as any writer I can think of at building suspense and dropping clues along the way as the story builds to a devastating climax. Although her prose is dense and chock-full of Australian words and phrases, she is not a difficult read. She does beautiful and totally accurate things with words, making a verb out "trampoline", for example. Mercy Given, with a transparent name, describes saints in the DICTIONARY OF GREAT PAINTINGS OF THE WESTERN WORLD as "the people with golden saucers stuck to their heads." When one character smiles, his smile does not reach his eyes.
Someone writing for the OBSERVER noted that Ms. Hospital is "one of the best female novelists writing in English." I disagree. She is one of the best novelists writing in English.
Guilt, opals, armageddon & the Outback!.......2003-07-28
Set in Australia at the end of the 20th century, Oyster explores the hysteria & resulting consequences of end-of-the-world cultism. In hallucinatory prose, Janette Turner Hospital weaves flashbacks into the (almost) present-day story, as if one is drifting in and out of consciousness.
It is interesting to note that although Oyster is the name of the messianic cult figure who brings his followers to the (intentionally) forgotton mining town of Outer Maroo; he, as a character, does not figure too prominently in the story. Rather, it is the actions & reactions of the other characters to Oyster & his disciples that make up the main narrative.
It's a bit rough to get through, but some passages sparkle like the opals that the townsfolk & cult members mine.
Waste if time.......2003-05-27
This 400-page story of Oyster kept me hoping for more. More of a plot, more of a specific reason for reading on, more details regarding the missing characters. The meat of the story could have been distilled into 60 pages. The rest of the book involved the author expounding on character descriptions that became boring in their redundancy and predictability. Don't waste your time with this book.
Intriguing characters, intriguing plot.......2003-01-12
In reading an earlier work of Turner's, The Last Magician, I was only impressed with the skill of Turner's prose. The story and characters were hardly interesting. However, with this work, Turner established herself in my mind as a powerful writer. This is a story I found inviting on several layers. One, it's a story of how religion is often abused. Oyster is the self styled prophet who's taken root in Outer Marou. Two, it's a mystery. What happened to the children whom two individual parents come looking? Why does no mail leave Outer Marou nor the phone system work? Why can no one leave and what happens if they try? Three, it's a story of individualism vs the community.
Beyond that, I found the characters appealing (though not all morally upstanding): Mercy, the young girl we see age during her lower teens who begins to think for herself ("She's addicted to tangents."); Miss Rover, the teacher who has a large influence on Mercy with her love of knowledge and encouragement, not to mention standing up to bibliolators; Oyster himself, the mad, intelligent prophet of Outer Marou; Old Silence, or Jess, the retired surveyor who keeps her thoughts to herself. And there are many others.
A story of cultish influence, fear, freethought, and faith. Turner has crafted an eery atmosphere set within an obscure Australian town for the reader to enjoy.
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A combination of a microfiltration-membrane bioreactor (MBR) and oyster-zeolite (OZ) packed-bed adsorption column was studied for the first time to evaluate the advanced tertiary treatment of nitrogen and phosphorous. The membrane module was submerged in the bioreactor and aeration was operated intermittently for an optimal wastewater treatment performance. Artificial wastewater with COD"c"r of 220 mg/L, total nitrogen (T-N) of 45 mg/L, and total phosphorous (T-P) of 6 mg/L was used in submerged MBR with MLSS of 4,000-5,000 mg/L. The experiments were performed during a 100-day period with periodic membrane washing. The results showed that COD"c"r could be effectively removed in the MBR alone with over 96% removal efficiency. However, T-N and T-P removal efficiency was slightly lower than expected with only the MBR. The permeate from MBR was then passed through the OZ column for tertiary nutrient removal. The final effluent analysis confirmed that nutrients can be additionally removed resulting in over 90% and 53% removal efficiencies for T-N and T-P, respectively. The results of this study suggest that the waste oyster shell can be effectively reclaimed as an adsorbent in advanced tertiary wastewater treatment processes in combination with a MBR.
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From the supplier: Some novels published under a 'young adult' banner are read by adults who recognize that some of the best new fiction is designated YA. Australian writer Sonya Hartnett's brilliant tale of a deviant, incestuous family, 'Sleeping Dogs,' is one such novel that calls for a new genre label.
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Title: The sand in the oyster.(some novels transcend 'young adult' classification)
Author: Patty Campbell
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The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1996
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: v72
Issue: n2
Page: p240(4)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Title: Vetting the verse novel.(The Sand in the Oyster)
Author: Patty Campbell
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The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 80
Issue: 5
Page: 611(6)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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In partnership with Tim Burton and Harper-Collins Publishing, Dark Horse has created a boxed set which includes the hardcover book, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (limited edition, new designed cover) along with an exclusive PVC figure of Voodoo Girl. A perfect companion to the nine figures released in the three Dark Horse Burton PVC sets, Voodoo Girl is unavailable in any format other than this package. Measuring 7" x 4" x 9 1/2", one side of the double-sided window box displays the book and the other the highly-detailed figure. A must-have for all Burton fans! Recommended for ages 8+
Customer Reviews:
Yikes!.......2006-06-21
Oh my goodness! I bought this book for a little 7 year old girl. She loves "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" - and she loves scary stories and such - so I thought this would be perfect. I gave one to my 11 year old too. Well - that was last Christmas - and just last night (it's now June) my 11 year old decided to read the book. This book is NOT appropriate for a 7 year old or even and 11 year old. There are blatant references to sex. How emabarressing! I have to apologize to the little girl's Mom. They probably read the book six months ago and thought I was a sick-o. So - just a warning - in case you think this is a great gift for a kid - it's not.
Tim Burton's Oyster Boy Book and Voodoo Girl Figure Boxed Set (Tim Burton's Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys).......2006-01-16
If you're a fan of Tim Burton, you'll love this book and the Tragic Toy that comes with it. Great enjoyment for "big kids".
oyster boy.......2006-01-16
The best book I have ever bought. I bring it with me where ever I go (yes that is how big of a fag I am). But it truly is a great book.
PIn Cushions for Presents.......2005-10-25
The Oyster Boy book is a wonderfully illustrated look into the mind of Tim Burton. The boxed set serves as the perfect gift, regardless of age, while the Voodoo Girl doll completes the orientation of the book: wild, imaginative, creative!
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