Would I survive living in a graveyard?

One cold foggy night, a silent murder happened in 33 Dunstan Road somewhere in the Old Town. Three people were killed. A man, a woman and a girl. At the time of the murder, in the attic of the house in 33 Dunstan Road, a little boy was unknowingly making the greatest escape of his life. Armed with just a rubber pacifier, the bored toodler who just learned how to walk, went out of the house and up the hill. Being silently chased by the watchful and talented murderer, that boy fund refuge in the most unusual and safe place in town - the graveyard.
And the adventure in the graveyard begins...

-My own introduction to The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

(Just trying to be like Gaiman... hehe...)

I'm really amazed by Neil Gaiman's imagination. Who? Yeah, who could think of writing a book about a boy living in a graveyard? I can't think of single sane person who could.

The story evolves around the orphaned boy appropriately name Nobody Owens (made me think that maybe Gaiman used the phrase "nobody owns" as basis for this...), Bod for short. Being given the Freedom of the Graveyard, Bod can talk and see the ghosts living in the graveyard. With ghost parents and a not-dead-and-not-alive person as a guardian, Bod's adventures in the graveyard is unexpected and at the same time sad. If your expecting to be scared while reading this then forget about it.

Being my first Gaiman book, I really don't know what to think of it aside from the fact that many people love it. Reading the first few pages of made it me realize that this is not your normal children's book with the almost perfect hero or heroine. Bod has issues he needs to deal with and lessons learned through hard experiences. It is a serious book with a wee bit of humor (really love the inscriptions on the gravestones!). This book is a fast and entertaining read. It made me think that living in the graveyard is really like living in the normal world.

I just thought that it should be a longer book, maybe a series. It is not detailed enough. I was actually curious on what the Honour Guard and the Jack of All Trades is all about. I think Gaiman should have delved deeper with the war of the Guards and the Jacks.

All in all, really enjoyed the book. I'll be buying more Gaiman books.

I'll leave the phrases or sentences that I love in the book....

"The treasures of ten thousand years ago were not the treasures of today" -Nobody Owens

"You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over." -Silas

"Of all the organs, the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste the sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue." -Nehemiah Trot (the poet)

"Dish best served cold. Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious" -Nehemiah Trot (the poet) on REVENGE

"It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you." -Silas