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  <title><![CDATA[Death: the High Cost of Living]]></title>
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  <default_description>From the pages of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN comes the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. 
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[This graphic novel seems to me to be all too typical of Gaiman’s work.  It’s slick, but there’s not really terribly much to it.  There are good ideas but he doesn’t do much with them.  It’s not that it’s bad, it isn’t.  It’s just not as good as you’d hoped it would be after reading...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19422710">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up at the library after hearing Neil Gaiman speak at a local college. He was asked a question about Tori Amos and the character of Death in the Sandman DC comics series. <br/><br/>I didn't really understand the question at the time, not having read any of the series, but Tori Amos wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60152915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9484027">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christina Stind]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Death</em> and <em>Sandman</em> was my introduction to the world of graphic novels and - well, it's pretty much the only graphic novels I've read... But they're amazing!<br/>Love Death - love the fact that she gets to live once every hundred years and then uses it to the fullest - to eat hot dogs and appels othe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9484027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66768404">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only thing I like more than Dream, is Death. Hmm, maybe I should explain the context of that statement.  Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book series (which is profoundly good - read it right the fuck now) centers around a family of immortal beings called The Endless.  The Endless are not gods - they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66768404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75365305">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not gonna lie -- I'm a bit disappointed with Neil Gaiman as of late.  Maybe because the first exposure I had to him was in the movie &quot;Stardust&quot; and I thought that flick was just absolutely fantastic on so many levels -- but so far his books have yet to really impress me.  I mean Corali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75365305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54562850">
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  <read_at>Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gaiman's character Death is not the Grim Reaper all are accustomed of hearing, it may seem that the flapping cloak and menacing-looking scythe are all bad press. Gaiman didn't want a Death that agonized over her role, or who took a morbid delight in her job, or who simply didn't care. He wanted a De...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54562850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6361229">
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    <body><![CDATA[creepy but annoying and excessively teenagerish. also seems dated.]]></body>
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    <review id="43904436">
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    <body><![CDATA[Death: The High Cost of Living is a short and sweet little comic, featuring Death as she appears in The Sandman, but as the star. None of the other Endless appear, instead it follows Death during her one day in a hundred years of being a mortal. It's a pretty simple little story: it's interesting be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43904436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56473149">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jess]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one of the first volleys of courtship across my bow from my beloved when he was still in New Zealand and I was still in America. I hadn't read The Sandman yet, but I'd paged through this in a comic book store and was blown away, and had told him so. He, working in a comic book store in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56473149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76126878">
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    <body><![CDATA[Once every hundred years Death must spend a day as a human girl.  Death has always been  one of my favorite Sandman characters and I am happy that she scored her own book.  Death meets a boy named Sexton who is contemplating suicide, he basically feels life is too boring to live.  Death (as Didi) is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76126878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50589772">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rachel C.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been hearing Neil Gaiman's name *everywhere* - he just won a Newbery Medal and Coraline is based a novel of his.  Plus, my brother is a big fan.  I thought I'd check him out.<br/><br/>Gaiman's Death is a great character and the story certainly does not lack for interesting developments, but I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50589772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18872362">
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    <name><![CDATA[Todd]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this. I enjoyed it four-stars-worth. But it only gets three because, had I read it on another day, I would have found it unsatisfactory. This is because there's not much by way of dramatic tension or plotting. Indeed, the plot seems like a bit of an afterthought. Some of the tropes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18872362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54248808">
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed this one, though it was shorter than I would've liked and the storyline to be a little longer, but she is only there for one day. The intro from Tori Amos I didn't like as it was kinda rambling. I thought it was interesting how the boy, Sexton, is contemplating suicide at the beginning of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54248808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10092825">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jedidiah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ehh, it's okay. It's really the first thing of Gaiman's I've read that I didn't like all that much. The story seems incomplete and mostly unrealized, like it could have used a few more issues to be told, and kind of...well...pointless. Not that pointless plots are always bad, but this story desperat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10092825">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38294112">
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    <body><![CDATA[this was in fact my first sandman book!<br/>read it ages ago in high school from the library<br/>i recently bought it's sequel so i guess it's time for a re-read<br/>funny how i only noticed recently that it's drawn by a favourite of mine Chris Bachalo.<br/>he once did a steampunk comic, i wonde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38294112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[way better than Sandman. awesome intro by Tori Amos.<br/><br/>still a little disappointed in Neil Gaiman, but this book is an example of good imagination set to print. how wonderful it is to imagine death as a merry punk chick with an ankh around her neck.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely death gives us another teensy peek into the magical real world. My only criticism is the earnest and dated &quot;Death's Sex-Ed Crash Course&quot; at the end. Cool and earthy death earnestly explains what STDs are, and demonstrates how to roll a condom onto a banana. <br/>Um, odd. Like someb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33465651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The High Cost of Living is a story that just screams to be a movie.  It wouldn't be the typical comic book movie though.  There are no big explosions, there are no gratitious sex scenes, and the violence is minimal.  The High Cost of Living is a story that relies on story telling, not cheap tricks. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21120645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic Gaiman, though I haven't read it for a while.  The bit that sticks in my mind is when Death wonders aloud whether a hot dog's chemical aftertaste is the reason people eat them or just an added bonus.]]></body>
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