false 16793 53 <p> Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined. </p> <p> From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous—in pursuit of love and the utterly impossible. </p> 3166179 book 1998 Stardust total:20234|5:5777|4:8239|3:4953|2:1039|1:226| 20234 79004 27571 2416 4 67 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:32:05 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 07:26:10 -0700 2007
Damn you. Damn you straight to hell. You've written beautiful faerie stories in your plainspoken postmodern prose, and left my own projected frontiers woefully trodden. It has nothing to do with your brilliance. Had I been born before you I would most likely be the on...more...]]> 1 42 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 03 15:33:06 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 00:21:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 11 false false Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 09:58:48 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 20:50:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 8 false false Tue Aug 19 06:38:54 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 19 20:46:37 -0700 2009 Stardust adalah novel prekuel dari sebuah cerita yang mungkin tidak akan pernah dituliskannya. Oya? Sebuah prekuel? Wah... setelah selesai membacanya aku pikir Neil Gaiman perlu berpikir ulang untuk menuliskan kelanjutannya. Entahlah, mung...more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 15:22:54 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 22 05:19:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Oct 12 18:25:26 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 18:35:51 -0700 2008
Semalam aku pergi ke dunia fantasi. Dunia yang hanya ada dalam mimpi dan imaginasi. Peri, elf, penyihir serta makhluk makhluk dan tanaman aneh yang tak pernah kulihat sebelumnya. Tempat yang penuh dengan makhluk-makhluk ajaib, tempat-tempat eksotik dan benda benda unik. Sihir, pe...more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 19:38:56 -0800 2008 Mon May 05 19:17:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 12:09:01 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 13:22:43 -0700 2007
Gaiman does a great job of convincing readers that the world of Fairie could and does exist. And like all good fantasy, it's clear that the borders don't stop with his pages. Indeed, that the movie expands on aspects like the three witches...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 03:12:47 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 04:35:36 -0700 2007
It was an enjoyable read! A true fairy tale with all the wonder, adventure and magical creatures--and a lot of humor as well. The story tells about the faerie world which is only separated by a wall from the human wor...more...]]> 1 4 false false Thu Jun 19 08:17:31 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 08:24:51 -0700 2008
Why Gaiman is such a popular author amongst genrehounds will forever be a mystery to me.

He is a great comic book writer, but as a nove...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:40:57 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 14:42:15 -0800 2008 Stardust. This was truly a treat. It was also well-written enough that pretty much everything I've read since just seems like a pale imitation of good writing. I'm going to need to read a lot of crap over the ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 19:45:35 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 19:53:08 -0700 2007
I was lukewarm about the movie, which inspired me to re-read the book.

Two of the finest things in the book are the sense of Faerie's breadth and depth, of all the stories happ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 07:18:18 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 07:49:22 -0700 2007
I was, well, less than impressed. First off, the whole "Wall" thing was far too sim...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 07:26:31 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 18:58:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 18:04:06 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 19:41:06 -0800 2009
The story is basically about a young man who's obsessed over a girl in his village. She promises "...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 13:39:07 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:37:33 -0800 2009 Neil Gaiman until now? I'm utterly, totally, eternally in love with this book, and I'm glad that my introduction was narrated by the author. His narration - a bit wry, a lot affectionate - allowed me to do my part: to imagine the towns, the fores...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 20:33:06 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:26:35 -0700 2009
BUT - I was pleasantly surprised (though I shouldn't have been considering...more...]]> 1 5 false false Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 05:26:42 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 06:08:24 -0700 2008 but I was wrong.

In Gaiman's defence, this book was written in the style of an old adventure story or Grimm brother's ta...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 22:57:49 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 12:23:13 -0700 2008
I liked the book, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting. For that, ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 19:59:34 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 09:00:07 -0700 2008
That's because the things that I loved about the movie don't even appear in the book. The gay pirate? Not in the book. An awful lot of little details were missing. I won'...more...]]>