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Being Dead | 
 enlarge | Author: Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher: Magic Carpet Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 327830
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0152049126
EAN: 9780152049126
ASIN: 0152049126
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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Condition: Some wear on cover and pages, ex-library, some stamps and stickers on book, some spine creases, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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A sixteen-year-old will give anything to be with her true love--even though he died two hundred years ago. . . . A sopping-wet little dead girl stalks a teen who had nothing to do with her death--honest! . . . A heartless man dances with his wife--after she's passed away.
From the hilarious to the horrific, master storyteller Vivian Vande Velde explores the world of the dead--and the undead--in this surprisingly moving collection of unnerving tales.
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 Interesting Plot Twists; Dark but Funny June 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My favorite story in here was the title one: Being Dead. The one about dancing just struck me as too much like Poe's the Raven. Although dark like any of Vivian Vande Velde's works, this one wasn't particularly scary. I guess if I were 10 I might be creeped out, but I doubt it. The back of the book made it sound like the stories would keep one up at night. Maybe we're all just jaded these days. In any case, the books a ridiculously easy read and a nice way to spend an afternoon. I might even venture to guess that there's some re-readibility in a few of the stories.
Being Dead November 29, 2006
Do you enjoy feeling invisible fingers tickling their way up your spine? Or perhaps you like shivering in fright as beads of cold sweat trickle down your temples. Being Dead by renowned fantasy author Vivian Vande Velde will surely have you cowering beneath your bedcovers while you are reading any one of the seven stories in this anthology.
Being Dead opens with an odd tale. It tells the story of Brenda--a regular teenager who has problems with her little brother, parents, and the new town she's just moved in to. But when she meets a ghost, her life takes a turn for the worse. Each of the six stories after Brenda's tale all happen in their own particular setting, and themes range from love at first sight to bitter sorrow to false courage. Although I had trouble sleeping after I had finished the book, I still enjoyed it immensely.
Vivian Vande Velde's style varies from genre to genre, and from theme to theme. Even then, she continues to evaluate the setting her characters exist in and begins to form a particular voice from there. One can hear the distinctive tough-guy drawl of a Big Apple newsboy in the 1920s very well; the whisper of a dying girl in our present era is articulated just as carefully. Her writing is easy to digest and she does not overload on description like some authors of fantasy do.
I would recommend this book to an audience of an adolescent age. Adults may find the stories a trifle because most of the stories in Being Dead are about middle-to-high school age kids. I would rate this book four stars, omitting the last star because all of the seven tales seem empty in their depth and moral.
A Chilling Collection of Stories January 15, 2006
Being Dead by Vivian Vande Velde is a book that left me quite unsure of what to expect when I picked it up the other day. It had a couple of interesting reviews on the front and back stating how scary the stories were and claiming that they would keep you restless for several nights at a time. After reading the first story, Drop by Drop, I was blown away at how amazingly unexpected the ending was and how likeable Brenda (the main character) was. The story itself is about a girl (Brenda) moving into an old house in Upstate, New York and discovering that the little girl who haunts her isn't all she's cracked up to be. The other stories in the book were amazing, too, but I felt that none of them really were comparable to Drop by Drop.
I reccomend this book to readers of all ages, preferably those who, like me, were in dire need of a spooky tale to tell their friends at an upcoming sleepover. Enjoy!
Creepy! November 23, 2005
In the novel, Being Dead by Vivian Vande Velde, there are three short stories. I thought all three were pretty scary, and like the cover of the book says, "It will make you sleep with the lights on." It was that scary. I thought out of the three stories the first story, Drop by Drop was the most shocking. Normally I am not scared by ghost stories, but this one scared me. Moving into the new house with her family, Brenda being a teenager does not want to move in the first place. Then the scary things start happening to her, like the spooky phone call with no reply, then the little girl screaming, "Help me!", also when she finds the human hand in her back yard pond. The part that scared me the most was when Brenda was in the bath tub and her family went out for pizza in town so she was all alone, then she feels a drop on her arm. Five minutes later she realizes that drop was a blood drop, only to look up and see the dead girl standing over her! That was pretty creepy. If you are looking for a book that will make you have to sleep with the lights on, then this is the right book for you. Take my advice and read it!
Hope this helps,
Kristi
Shanghai
 Not that creepy October 27, 2004
While this book was interesting, it wasn't actually as scary or as 'creepy' as it has been made out to be.
If you're looking for a scary book, look elsewhere.
~Atalanta
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