True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
by:
David Almond (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670919055 (0670919055)
Publish date: September 1st 2011
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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 ...
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...
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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