The Sandman: Endless Nights (The Sandman #12)

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The Sandman: Endless Nights (The Sandman #12)

by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), Barron Storey (Illustrator), Bill Sienkiewicz (Illustrator), Glenn Fabry (Illustrator), Dave McKean (Illustrator), P. Craig Russell (Illustrator), Milo Manara (Illustrator), Miguelanxo Prado (Illustrator) , more…

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Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series by Neil Caiman, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction are seven brothers and sisters who each lord o...more

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Published September 1st 2004 by Vertigo (first published 2003)

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Feb 05, 2008 Trebro rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Singer-songwriter Fish has a line about returning to your past. When asked, as he often is at concerts, to play one of the seminal songs from his former band Marillion, he responds, "I'm not playing fucking Grendel!" His point is that to try and relive the past like that would make no sense--he can't sing it the way he used to, the meaning's not there. It would be nostalgic at best, off-key at worst. Trying to relive something you did years ago and have moved on from is not the best plan.

Which b...more Singer-songwriter Fish has a line about returning to your past. When asked, as he often is at concerts, to play one of the seminal songs from his former band Marillion, he responds, "I'm not playing fucking Grendel!" His point is that to try and relive the past like that would make no sense--he can't sing it the way he used to, the meaning's not there. It would be nostalgic at best, off-key at worst. Trying to relive something you did years ago and have moved on from is not the best plan.

Which brings me to this graphic novel. Gaiman got his name writing an amazing series called Sandman that was already unraveling a bit by the end. He'd simply said all he wanted to do, and to make sure he was done, he destroyed his work ala the way Shakespeare destroyed his in the Tempest. He even gives us one last hurrah by linking the two together. It's a great idea. It was a great way to go out.

But fans clamor for more. They always do. No one knows when to "close the book and gracefully decline" if I may borrow yet another musical reference. We've got Indiana Jones and the Nursing Home of Doom on deck and I just saw an ad for an all-new Rambo--still starring Stallone! If you want further proof that going back and doing more is a bad idea, I have two words for you: Phantom Menace.

Gaiman tries his best to work some old magic in this one, but it's clear his attention is elsewhere. Death's story, brilliantly illustrated by P. Craig Russell, almost captures what used to be, but the ending twists what looked interesting into a simple "a killer justifies his life" plot line. There's some great ideas and Death as always steals the show, but it feels like it was rushed.

Desire's story is by far the best of the collection. Folklore, myth, and tales of olden times given a modern perspective weave together as a woman uses the power of Desire to get what she wants--at a terrible cost. These are themes that feature prominently in Gaiman's prose and his current film work, and it's obvious he's very engaged in this one. The Artwork, just a bit out of focus in many ways, captures how we see something when we desire it. This was my favorite, and it would have made a great one-shot.

Dream, the character most closely associated with Gaiman, gets rather shorted here, as his story features an ensemble cast. This is a story from the past, when Dream was more apt to love. The Endless meet up with the stars to plan the future. Dream brings his girlfriend, a young from from a planet we'll hear more about in other times. Meanwhile, Despair woos a red sun into tragic plots, and Desire does what he does best. I'm a bit surprised Gaiman tries to link the Endless to the DC universe Canon--he even mentions in the first trade of Sandman that when he tried to do that, he felt he failed. This is a story designed to show why some of the things happened the way they did in the series, and I'm not sure that was needed. It's a very clever tale, however. Yet it's not a real story about Dream.

Despair's chapter is very rough, as expected,. As experimental graphic work goes, I'm sure it's good, but not really my taste.

Delirium has gone a bit mad, even for her, and it's up to a few who think like she does to save her. Bill Sienkiewicz does the art duties here and his half normal art, half odd graphical work serves the story well. None of this story makes sense, but that's to be expected. It sets up the Destruction tale in the next story, where a woman goes to excavate the future--and finds some things man would be better off not knowing. Can Delirium--who's more her usual self here--and Destruction convince this archaeologist-for-hire that preservation is not always what it's cracked up to be? Again, like the Death story, I feel that this plot has been done too many times to make it worthy of what used to be written in Sandman.

Last is Destiny, who mostly gets a character description. This is a shame, because I think there could have been a great story about how Destiny, like Gaiman, knows all, and choses that which he opts to share, just as a writer chooses what to write. This is what I mean when I said I don't think his heart was completely into the writing--none of the stories really push the boundaries the way that Gaiman does when he's in his stride.

These are nice tales of the Endless for those who wanted more. But they're just that--more. They aren't the type of writing that makes a person who doesn't normally read "edgy" comics sit up and take notice the way that Sandman changed how I read comics. This is an encore from a man who's doing other things. Because he's so good at writing, they are still good stories. They just aren't what I've come to expect from Gaiman, and I don't think that was his fault. He felt it was time to write more Endless stories. I think he may have stretched that desire a bit too thin here. If we get more Endless, I'd prefer it to be in the form of a one-shot, so that the best idea is what we get. I'd love to read more, too--but only if it really needs to be said. (Library, 01/08)

Trebby's Take: Not as satisfying as I'd hoped. Still worth reading, but please don't make this your introduction to Sandman.(less)

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Mar 31, 2013 Nicole Bunge rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I know these are classics, and it's sacrilege to criticize them, but part of the reason I never read them is because I don't like the art style(s). I love Gaiman as an author. I started out with his short stories and novels though, and any time something is held up as 'you HAVE to read this' - especially because I like gothic, ooky-spooky stuff and mythic/fairy tale literature.

But as a feminist (or more accurately, a post-feminist) I'm still disturbed by the amount of T&A in this volume. An...more

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Mar 08, 2013 Ronyell rated it 5 of 5 stars

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4.5 stars!

After reading almost all of Neil Gaiman’s fantastic run on the “Sandman” series (to the point where I called the year 2012 “The Year of the Sandman” since I had spent the year reading the Sandman comics), I wanted to read Neil Gaiman’s latest story on the “Sandman” series, “The Sandman: Endless Nights,” even though The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake was actually considered the final story arc in the “Sandman” series. “The Sandman: Endless Nights,” which is also a Bram Stoker Award winner...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Malxox ♥ rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Okay so I borrowed this from my friend because we did our 9th grade project/final on it, and I was the only one of the four of us that hadn't read it and really had no idea what was going on (lol :p). I have my own little reviw for each story really, so ... here ya go :)

Death: ★★★★
Death was a very interesting chapter, I'm not going to lie, I really did enjoy it. Only ... I didn't quiet understand it at some points, only towards the middle-ish did I really get the reason for switching between on...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Celeste rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: all-time-favorites

A friend of mine gave me this book for my birthday in 2002 and I've been recommending it to people ever since; and I'm constantly getting more out of it every time I read it.

Anyone interested in religion would love this book for its depiction of archetypes, time, emotion and the combination therein. If you're familiar with tribal and eastern religions you can see a lot of their influences in Gaiman's Endless. The Endless are personifications, crystallized aspects of humans and existence as a col...more

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Oct 28, 2011 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars

Review from my blog:http://rosesandvellum.blogspot.com/

It is impossible to really do justice to this surreal graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman. A collection of stories with characters that touch your heart, and storylines that blow your mind, the books could be said to revolve around the lord of dreams, also know as Morpheus, The Sandman, etc. one of the seven brothers and sisters known as The Endless, that were there at the beginning of things. But it's not really just about him. It's about s...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Airiz C rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Endless Nights is a sevenfold compilation of stories featuring each of the Endless, set in various times ranging from when the solar system is not yet a system in itself to the period after Lord Morpheus’ downfall. I enjoyed it for the most part, but some tales didn’t quite quench my thirst for a satisfying treat concomitant to the phenomenal ten-volume series.

SPOILERS ABOUND. The first installment, “Death and Venice,” is divided into two narratives: one about a kingdom in Venice whose duke made...more Endless Nights is a sevenfold compilation of stories featuring each of the Endless, set in various times ranging from when the solar system is not yet a system in itself to the period after Lord Morpheus’ downfall. I enjoyed it for the most part, but some tales didn’t quite quench my thirst for a satisfying treat concomitant to the phenomenal ten-volume series.

SPOILERS ABOUND. The first installment, “Death and Venice,” is divided into two narratives: one about a kingdom in Venice whose duke made it so—with magic of some sort—that neither time nor death would touch everyone inside their gates; and one about a pessimistic soldier who comes home to Italy to visit the island where he meets a pretty gothette when he was a boy. You guessed it right—the girl is Death. The stories converge when Sergei, the soldier, meets Death again outside the gates of the said kingdom. I wouldn’t say anything anymore about what happens, but you know how it goes—when Death reaches her hand out to you, it only means you’re on your way to your final destination. This is quite a bizarre tale where our favorite demise-anthropomorph takes a backseat. I have mixed feelings about the story as a whole, but I certainly love the highlights of the soldier’s thoughts. It’s as if I can feel the emptiness he is experiencing. P.Craig Russell wows me again with his patented artistic prowess.

“What I’ve Tasted of Desire” comes next, and from the title itself you already know which of the Endless this is about. I commend the artist because every single panel is a magnificent painting, though I have to admit I have to read this away from my parents or my sister for they might think I’m reading a pornographic comic from the olden times. Haha! Milo Manara is one heck of a good illustrator, I tell you. Anyway, the story’s about a maiden who is transformed by Desire into the ultimate seductress. When her husband is killed, she takes revenge against the murderers by using her most powerful weapon: lust.

Next is “The Heart of a Star,” which tells yet another failed love story of our late Sandman. I sort of enjoyed this one because it explains a few things, particularly about the origins of enmity between Dream and Desire that is ever-apparent in the previous graphic novels. It as well provides a few glimpses to the earliest set of Endless when Delirium is still the cute Delight, and when the first Despair is shown, squat and ugly as the Despair we met in the series but with red tattoos all over her body (and can we say less taciturn?). The setting is in a parliament of stars where we see living suns of different planets in their anthropomorphic forms: Sol (of our very own Earth), Rao (of Superman’s Krypton), and Sto-Oa (of the Green Lantern’s Oa). I guess this is where Gaiman first applied the idea of star in human form, the same concept of his novel Stardust.

What I loved the most in this compendium is “Fifteen Portraits of Despair”. There are no long storylines or foretastes of history about this Endless; instead there are fifteen vignettes about people whose hearts were snagged by the hook of Despair. Artists Barron Storey and Dave McKean joined forces to make “beautifully grotesque” (the most fitting description I could give) pieces of art that feature some characters in the micro-fictions and Despair herself. “Less is more”, they always say, and I love how Gaiman can tell the best of stories with just a few set of words. Each tale is disheartening indeed.

“Going Inside” features Delirium. Take this as an admonition: I almost had a headache deciphering what the new characters are talking about in the first few pages. I only realized that that’s how everything should be, because they are actually mentally challenged people and I’ve just been inside their heads. Well, what do I say? Bravo, Gaiman…that’s one heck of a mindf**k. Here Dream--the new one--recruits five nutcases to help find Delirium, who is lost and hurt inside her own realm. Dream and the others (Barnabas and Matthew) can’t go deep inside Del’s realm because no one ever gets out with his or her sanity intact. Coupled with the marvelous art that complements the crazy tone of the story perfectly, I guess this issue achieved its main purpose. Also, I’ll just say that Matthew is as funny as ever! One line and I cracked up. No pun intended.

The penultimate story is “Destruction on the Peninsula”. It’s about an archeologist who dreams of the end of the world, and then works at a mysterious site where artifacts from the future can be extracted. Destruction plays a minor role. In this story he is sort of baby-sitting his little sister Delirium. I’m not sure where in t The Sandman's timeline this fits, but I have a wild guess it’s when Delight transfigures into Delirium for the first time. It has an interesting premise, but I’m not totally pulled in by the story.

The last tale, “Endless Nights,” is of course about Destiny. No stories of any sort are told, but we are given a small tour to Destiny’s garden and a few information about the Cosmic Log. Very brief and interesting, I guess how this is done just fits Destiny. Whatever story we are going to be told, after all, is written on that mighty book chained to his wrist. :p

In general, this is a quite refreshing and pleasant read.
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Jun 21, 2011 Fox rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, graphic-novel, horror, mars-book, series, short-stories, 2011

It seems I am attempting to read every single book in the Sandman collection. We shall see how this plays out - I'm not quite certain that my library carries all of these side stories. Hell, I feel lucky to have gotten the ten main volumes of the comic from the library. Anyway, that is beside the point. Endless Nights.

Endless Nights is a side story, a volume of seven short stories, each corresponding to a different member of the Endless. In addition to being entertaining, the volume does answer...more

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Jun 01, 2011 cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-in-1-and-0, gn-sandman

Let start by apologizing to all graphic novels lovers, I'm sorry I never took GN seriosly as a form of reading materials, I always thought them like adult childish' book ;) (eventhough I read couple GN before, not Sandman). This novel proofed me WRONG! It has the complexity of a great novel, a solid storyline, and beside that all, I LOVED the graphics. It really set the tone and nuance.

So, you know I'm a newbie here, not knowing the artist and all - I always loved Gaiman's work though - but this...more

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Jan 18, 2010 Jonathan Gramann rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the series of graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (and much contributed to by artists, etc, whom I know nothing about.)

So far, this is the only graphic novel I have read, so I can't really tell you how it compares to other graphic novels, but the awards it has won probably testifies to its quality almost as well as I could. According to Wikipedia, it is the only comic book to ever win the World Fantasy Award and one of the few comic books to ever make it on the New York Times Bestselle...more

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Oct 15, 2012 Ideasmith rated it 5 of 5 stars

This standalone book could well serve as an introduction to the Sandman universe or simply be a collector's piece. Each story tells about one of the seven Endless siblings - Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium.

Some, like the ones on Death, Desire & Destruction feature them as characters appearing for a very short while in the tales. This is the style of several of the stories in the main Sandman books. The Dream chapter has an important plot turn in the larger Sandman nar...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Meredith rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, series

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Personal stories for each of the endless; each very telling and a welcome insight. Death: An American military man revisits Venice searching for Death, whom he met as a young boy, and they break the spell of a count seeking freedom from time. Desire: A young woman, in love with the village chief's son, meets Desire because she wants 'like a forrest fire.' After dismissing his increasing advances, she makes him publicly court her for three months before agreeing to marriage. When a band of men br...more Personal stories for each of the endless; each very telling and a welcome insight. Death: An American military man revisits Venice searching for Death, whom he met as a young boy, and they break the spell of a count seeking freedom from time. Desire: A young woman, in love with the village chief's son, meets Desire because she wants 'like a forrest fire.' After dismissing his increasing advances, she makes him publicly court her for three months before agreeing to marriage. When a band of men brandishing her husband's head arrive, intending her harm as well, she uses the art of desire to pit the men against each other and desire her until the men of her village return and slaughter them. Dream: A much appreciated look at the endless when they were new. Dream, at first, held Desire as his favorite sibling. Death was dark and serious. We get to see Delight, a talkative, excited red headed little girl. Most interestingly we get a brief glimpse of the original Despair; she discusses the art of despair and has peach skin covered with red lines and swirls. The short lived relationship between Killalla of the glow and Dream and a meeting to carve out the nature of the universe frames the story, and is told as a bedtime story from the sun to his daughter, the earth. Despair: This chapter is different from the others in that it consists of 15 unrelated short stories, all revolving around the concept of despair. Delirium: Delirium has retreated too far within herself, and five delusional people are called upon to bring her back to herself. One of the five, a girl who was healed, and prepared to move on. Destruction: Rachel, a woman who dreams about world destruction, is invited to an archaeological dig that unearth items from the potential future, and in turn meets Destruction and Delirium. A rare isotope is found, and the governments seizes and sells the land. Rachel quickly returns to the mainland, just in time to see the peninsula disappear in a flash of light; most likely a result of the bulldozers hitting a hunter-killer slug. Destiny: We visit him walking in his garden and learn the nature of his book.(less)

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Nov 01, 2010 Gabriel rated it 4 of 5 stars

After years of hearing "The Sandman" in the periphery of different conversations, I finally picked up a volume and checked it out. As a starter, Endless Nights (apparently the last collection written for the series?) worked well. I have a basic understanding of the characters as well as ideas for how the series itself must look. What was most interesting, though, was the disparity between each story.

This is NOT a novel. This is an anthology of short works.

This is NOT a comic, but an exploration...more

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Nov 30, 2009 Emily rated it 5 of 5 stars

Ive always been an avid reader, but when I was 14 I was stuck in hospital for a while. I had many visitors and one was of my friend and her mom, who had a whole room of books by authors Id never heard of at the time. She braught me a bag full of books where the majority of them were by a guy named Niel Gaiman. There was Coraline, Neverwhere, Fragile Things and The Sandman: Endless Nights. Endless Nights was the very first Gaiman book I ever read and I loved it. Despite the fact I had no idea wha...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Lena Tumasyan rated it 4 of 5 stars

The first 4 stars I give to this book because of the Art. Every chapter was different and beuatiful in its own way. Even the really confusing collage style art for Delerium, which i had to reread about 3 times to completely understand (and i still think they might have had a few errors), I still enjoyed VERY much.I loved the curvy, sexy style of Desire. I loved the clean, cold style for Death. It was fantastic!

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Mar 15, 2011 D.M. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If this were an anthology of just the artists included, it would probably still merit 5 stars from me. Add to the high calibre of art in this volume that they're all illustrating new Neil Gaiman stories about Sandman's siblings The Endless, and it can hardly fail.
'Death and Venice' with P. Craig Russell is (of course) the Death story. His illustration is as beautiful as usual, though the colouring is appropriately more subtle than he had in the Sandman story 'Ramadan.' The story is one of the co...more If this were an anthology of just the artists included, it would probably still merit 5 stars from me. Add to the high calibre of art in this volume that they're all illustrating new Neil Gaiman stories about Sandman's siblings The Endless, and it can hardly fail.
'Death and Venice' with P. Craig Russell is (of course) the Death story. His illustration is as beautiful as usual, though the colouring is appropriately more subtle than he had in the Sandman story 'Ramadan.' The story is one of the couple better ones in the book, revolving around both an island where it's always the same day and a soldier who visited the island once as a child returning to try to meet the mysterious young woman he met there.
Milo Manara does the Desire story (who else could?), 'What I've Tasted of Desire.' It follows a young woman who becomes obsessed with the village 'tomcat,' and the lesson she learns from the titular Endless. It's another piece of petulantly beautiful women and scurrilous-looking men (in vivid watercolour and ink) from Manara, and the story is a fun one in the nameless-tribe kind of tradition of Sandman's 'The Hunt.'
I don't think I'd've ever guessed Miguelanxo Prado did 'The Heart of a Star,' the Dream piece here, even though I'm a fan of his work. It tells the earliest of all Endless stories, with the family attending an intergalactic conference before there was much life in the universe. The storyteller and its audience are a nice little hook at the end, too. Prado's art has rarely been more beautiful, and it lends an appropriately otherworldly feeling to this story.
Barron Storey's '15 Portraits of Despair' really could've gotten a book all their own. It's only through Dave McKean's clever arrangement that we're even given a glimpse into the TON of imagery he produced. Sadly, most of it has to be reproduced too small to really appreciate, but it's better than never seeing it at all. The story, such as it is, shifts between lyrical depictions of Despair and very short stories about how her presence is felt in the lives of people. It's a jarring, involving and slightly overwhelming piece.
Bill Sienkiewicz is a pretty natural choice for Delirium's story, 'Going Inside,' which depicts the very singular way in which Barnabas and 'Daniel' have decided to try to find a missing Delirium. The art looks, frankly, a little rushed, but still presents the same frenetic and dreamlike wonder many have been seeing in Sienkiewicz's work for decades. The story is a bit too clever for the art, and tends to get lost in the visuals, but they still just manage to work together. This is one of the weaker pieces in Endless Nights.
The weakest piece belongs (strangely enough) to the most physically powerful (looking, at least) member of The Endless. I suspect a large part of what's lacking in the Destruction story 'On the Peninsula' is due to the good-enough art by Glenn Fabry. I've never really liked Fabry's style, and putting him among such powers as those included here make it clear how absolutely outclassed he is in their company. His work here is as usual: comic-booky, stiff, with warped proportions and humans who are fairly hard to accept. The story is probably not a bad one, and it's certainly a good idea (a woman is brought to a peninsula where it seems they're digging up future artifacts; Destruction and Delirium 'happen' to be nearby), but Fabry really pulls it down.
The book ends with Frank Quitely's eponymous Destiny piece, 'Endless Nights.' As Gaiman says in his generous introduction, we knew Quitely was good, but who knew he was this good? His cheesy, slightly quavery style attains perfection here with a subtlety that's surprising but totally appropriate to the vague and musical text. The story isn't one so much as it is just some closing words on the nature of Destiny & The Endless.
This book is a wonderful little collection of some top-notch visual art, and an entertaining bit of storytelling. It is an absolute must-have for Sandman fans, and a safe bet for any international comic devotees.(less)

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Sep 13, 2010 Bryce Holt rated it 5 of 5 stars

Dark. Beautiful. Insane. Precious. I struggle for the right words to aptly describe this piece. Certainly not for everyone (particularly those more cheery people; were they to embark on the short story "Despair," I think it might just sour them forever), but equally one I very likely would suggest to those who are wanting to branch into another realm of fiction. The art is beautiful but it is the storytelling happening here which drives forward the piece.

I'll be the first to admit, after having...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Scott Lee rated it 3 of 5 stars

This one was interesting. It's a tack on after the Sandman series, although, after reading some of the disparate story of the month volumes it could easily be part of the series. Gaiman does a wonderful job of capturing each of the Endless, which is of course no surprise. I had read Death's story already, in the Absolute Death. It is interesting. I love the look on the Count's face when he turns to Death and says "I missed you." A neat moment. Despair's story is just creepy, but says some intere...more

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Nov 16, 2010 Ivon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-stories, 3rd-pov, 1st-pov, fantasy, graphic-novel

Terima kasih banyak untuk kebaikan Qui (nama panggilan dari seseorang ber-nickname
Δx Δp ≥ ½ ħ http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16... (don't ask, real name unknown)) karena telah menyempatkan diri meng-email kisah Endless Nights ini. Thanks, bro :).

Endless Nights adalah komik pelengkap kisah The Sandman, yang, officially, berakhir di komplikasi nomor 11 (The Wake). Masih dengan Neil Gaiman sebagai penulis ceritanya, Endless Nights berisikan tujuh chapter, dibagikan pas untuk setiap anggota kel...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Karissa rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a set of stories featuring the Endless. Each Endless gets its own story. Although I didn’t enjoy this as much as the rest of the Sandman series, it was still fun to revisit the series.

Each story features a different Endless. A wide variety of illustration styles are seen throughout and I enjoyed them all. Gaiman's writing continues to be spot on and really captures the mood of each of the Endless.

If you are a fan of the Sandman series this is a must read. The characters and their stories...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Ross rated it 4 of 5 stars

In the few Sandman Books that I've read so far (though it can more rightly be said that I've not read them as much as devoured them) I've found myself in awe of Lord Morpheus but not liking him that much as a person-or, rather, anthropomorphic entity.

Brooding. Aloof. Not people-friendly. You could easily get that impression of the Sandman from reading his series.

His brothers and sisters, however, are a lot easier to like, if not always to get along with. They just don't take things as seriously...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Claire rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, historical-fiction, read-in-2011, thought-provoking, very-very-strange, short-stories, favourite-series

This is probably a 4.5. The art in this was amazing. I was stunned and really tempted to buy it, but I doubt I'd ever re-read the stories so I probably won't. They artists really outdid themselves for this final, collaborative volume, and I pretty much every page was gorgeous. I can't decide which story illustrations I liked the best. Visually, Despair and Delirium's stories were most interesting and weird. The edgy, colourful, collage-style art seemed like like it too a lot of effort and a lot...more

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Nov 06, 2012 David Camp rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-from-library

I finished the whole Sandman series now. I know there are lots of spin-offs and tie-ins, but for now I'm done with it. This last book was a little hit and miss I thought, but I was so impressed with the series as a whole that I was always happy to get to know more about the characters and their world, even during the more uneven parts of the run. I'm still not a comics guy, but this helped remind me of something I always say about music: people who are being honest usually have type of music (or...more

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Jun 18, 2009 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, anthology, fantasy, fiction, gaiman, graphic-novel, own, paranormal, adult, teen, favorites

This volume has convinced me I need to go back and reread Sandman. It was a fun journey into a story featuring each of the Endless, but I really missed the scope and depth of storytelling in the main series. My favorite story here was Dream’s, although he’s kind of off to the sidelines during it. (And, dude, has there ever been a guy as unlucky in love as Dream? Kind of his fault too, though.) As usual I wasn’t Despair’s biggest fan, and I thought Destruction’s story could’ve used a little more,...more

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Nov 11, 2012 Delicious Strawberry rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel, neil-gaiman

Some of the 7 stories in this book are better than others. in a few of the stories, tidbits from the Sandman series are revealed, such as the mysterious lover of Morpheus mentioned once in Sandman vol 4 - revealed to be Killalla of the Glow, one of the original Green Lanterns, many eons ago - and also reveals a tempting tidbit in the past of Krypton.

I found Destruction's story to be a bit confusing but okay, but Delirium's story disappointed me very much. Delirium is usually presented as someone...more

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Feb 16, 2012 Lashawn rated it 4 of 5 stars

As someone who just recently (re)discovered the Sandman books, this was a wonderful coda to the series. The artwork for all the stories was gorgeous; and that says a lot, considering there were many Sandman books that I felt were drawn horribly. What stood out to me the most was the Desire and Despair stories. The other siblings have been explored so many times, I didn't get anything new (well, maybe Dream, but I'll get to that in a bit).

In Desire's story, I love how the main character breaks t...more

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Oct 21, 2012 Klytia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Una raccolta di racconti, un regalo di Gaiman per gli appassionati di Sadman che avevano visto concludersi l'amata serie al decimo volume.
L’episodio che ho preferito è quello dedicato a Sogno; l’idea di un universo con le stelle che si ritrovano in uno splendido palazzo per una riunione e di un giovane Sole che desidera riempire il suo spazio di vita e quindi di sogni, è poetica e suggestiva.
Per l’episodio dedicato a Desiderio, la scelta di Manara come illustratore è stata più che appropriata....more

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Jan 20, 2010 Ken-ichi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, escape, fantasy

Just reread this one after using it as a test case for work all day. These are all wonderful little tales, and some are real gems, particularly the stories about Desire and Dream, both of which have artwork that match and complement their stories. P. Craig Russell's work was actually a bit dissapointing, especially considering Ramadan is one of the best one-offs in the Sandman canon. Asside from the cheesy, superhero-esque color mixing, the art just feels a bit sloppy.

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Dec 18, 2008 Kettricken rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel

In this Sandman volume, published after the 10 Sandman books, we meet the seven Endless siblings again: Death, Desire, Dream, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny. Each of the chapters centres around one of the Endless. Gaiman as usual knows how to create short and interesting stories around each of them. He uses mythology and makes it his own in a very contemporary way. It's dark, intruiging and sometimes funny.
In this volume, I particularly liked the choice of artists: the artwork reall...more

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Jun 02, 2009 Eileen rated it 4 of 5 stars

I completed my Sandman odyssey with this graphic novel that had seven separate stories, each featuring a member of the Endless. I was really looking forward to reading this as for me, the best part about the Sandman series was the Endless siblings. While I didn't like all of the stories, there were definitely more hits than misses. I thought the stories that featured Death, Dream, Desire and Delirium were brilliant. The one with Despair I didn't really care about, while I thought the rest were o...more

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