the melancholy death of oyster boy and other stories review

This collection of weird and wonderful stories was written by Tim Burton (apart from the title story) who was the genius behind a nightmare before Christmas (one of the best films I have ever seen) and several other great and not so great films (I’m looking at you corpse bride) and in this book he shows again why all of his films have a breathtakingly dark sense of imagination and humour.
First off I will clear one thing up, I am a Tim Burton fan boy through and through every one of his films I have loved and this book received the same amount of excitement when I spotted it as a American may have when they see a hamburger (also I know that is a stereotype and that there are lots of healthy and sane Americans you just cant see them round the bulk of the obese ones) so that is why for the first paragraph I will rave about the book then I will try to make some bad points.
This book is a collection of short poems about people who are a bit “odd” to put it lightly, I shant ruin any of them but trust me when I say that if you saw one of them in the street you would cross the road (and in the case of the Americans gun them down with a glock in one hand and a milkshake in the other). A great thing about the book is that apart from having poems witch are wickedly dark (and I mean dark) there are also some great pictures to go with them and if you have ever seen a nightmare before Christmas then you will recognise the distinct art work of Tim Burton. The advantage to this is that when you are sitting reading the book people that look over your should (the nosy sods!) will look at the pictures and will say things like “what on earth has that man got on his head!” or “are you right in the head?” instead of things like “ha are you to stupid to read a book with out pictures” etc. in fact when I was sitting in my living room at least two people stopped what they where doing and looked at the book for five minutes and then wondered of in a strange trance (then again I do know some weird people).
Ok now I must name a few bad point (as is said in the reviewers charter just below “thou shalt not take in with the devils of gamespy”) so here we go bad points………hmmm bad points…….this is harder than I thought….here’s one and it is so stupid that the fact I am actually pointing it out proves just how good this is, the book is not child friendly I know that that is a stupid complaint but it is the only one I can think of. Also it is a pretty stupid compliant, after all the title alone should put of all but the most stupid parent and if you are thick enough to by this then chances are your children will probably all be to busy popping out the next generation of inbreed hicks.

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