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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean - Community Reviews back

by David Almond
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A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it 9 years ago
I don't really want to start this review by talking about the phonetic spelling, but it so colors the whole reading experience that I feel I really must get it out of the way.The whole book is written phonetically, and inconsistently phonetically (sometimes one is spelled "won," sometimes 1"). That ...
Music, Books and Tea
Music, Books and Tea rated it 11 years ago
This review was first posted on Music, Books and Tea.I’m going to be honest with you, when I picked up Billy Dean I expected it to a kind of Sweeny Todd like story, thanks to the scissors on the front cover. What I received instead was something totally different, but definitely in a good way.The fi...
To Shoot or Not to Shoot
To Shoot or Not to Shoot rated it 12 years ago
Another which should have 3.5 stars. I did enjoy it very much but my attention wandered towards the end so I can't quite give it 4. The curious spelling gave me no trouble but offered an odd conflict between the words on the page which gained an interesting oddity - and the words heard in my head, w...
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