Pre-Owned The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean (Hardcover) by David Almond

from Ma_Washigeri

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...

from krau0098

I have read a number of David Almond books and really enjoyed them. My favorite of his is The Skellig, but I also really enjoyed Heaven Eyes. I was excited to get this book for review, until I started reading it and realized the whole book is written phonetically and is very hard to read. Billy D...

from Ma_Washigeri

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...

from blakefraina

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean is presented as the journal of a boy who's been shut away from a post-apocalyptic world his entire life. He lives blissfully unaware of the wholesale destruction and unending war that exists just beyond the threshold of the one little room he's been forced ...

from jennybeast

One of those books with creative spelling from a self-taught narrator. I kept waiting for things to happen -- for there to be a journey other than the internal one, for there to an adventure, or an unexpected twist. It's not that kind of book, and I found it rather boring in a literary fiction so...