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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59748669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fortunately, I checked this book out from the library at the same time as I checked out <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://booksareking.blogspot.com/2009/03/sandman-preludes-and-nocturnes.html">Preludes and Nocturnes</a>. had I not done that, I would have never read this one, I enjoyed this one considerably more than the other. There are a couple things I'm going to chalk such like up to. First, the stories...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47713353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Endless Nights was written years after the Sandman series ended - Gaiman returns his characters and provides a story for each of the 7 Endless. <br/><br/>I liked some stories better than others, and for the first time, I think my 4th star in my rating for this book is solely because of the artwork...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64224079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40374561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58220548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    I was sad that there were no more Sandmans, so I was excited to finally get this from the library. Then I was sad again because these tales--each involving one of the Endless--do not have the quality of earlier stories. They are okay, but for some reason the artists drew a lot of bare-breasted w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73108456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first graphic novel. Not my first Gaiman, but my first book where the images and text lock together in collusion and combat to create a different medium altogether. <br/><br/>It was tough going at first and the book has accrued some fines. But once I let myself relax (and as someone wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53452273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story cycle, each of the stories featuring one of the seven Endless, magical/mythical beings from Gaiman's earlier and much acclaimed Sandman series.  The story cycle is presented in the structure of a graphic novel, though very different artists, inkers, and illustrators collaborate with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56316237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Endless Nights is an interesting collection of stories about the Endless, each with different art styles and different ways of telling the stories. Desire's has very sensual, &quot;pretty&quot; art, while Delirium's story is all over the place.<br/><br/>It's a very interesting novel. We get to see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43904429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19180323">
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    <body><![CDATA[Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is held up by a lot of people to be the greatest example of comics as literature ever written.  I don't know if that's quite accurate, but it does show a lot of what comics are capable of as literature.<br/><br/>That being said, this book specifically is Gaiman revisit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19180323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10503197">
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    <body><![CDATA[A new collection of stories about the Endless, this time there's one tale for every member of the Endless family.  Overall the stories are well told, and the illustration approaches artwork that you'd normally see in a gallery.<br/><br/>Death and Venice - tells the story of a mercenary who's visit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10503197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38131327">
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    <body><![CDATA[Gaiman revists the Endless of his Sandman series which ended in 1997. This one was published in 2003 but my library just got a hard cover copy.<br/><br/>NOTE: I was just so mad to find in this book are just stories that have already appeared in the old works NOT NEW stories. Guess I should read th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38131327">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great read.  My favorite chapter is number 4:  The Fifteen Portraits of Despair.  The vignettes here are universal and touching.  To back up the stories, the illustrations are abstract paintings that reveal new dimensions every time the reader looks at them.  I appreciated the variety in illustrat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54183375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I mistakenly picked this up, thinking it was the first book in the Sandman series of graphic novels. Instead, it has a short story from each of the seven Endless, from varying time periods within the actual storyline. It was written after Preludes and Nocturnes, but it still gave me a nice intro int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61522976">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[About a third of the stories were just too ... schizophrenic for my tastes.  Also--and this is probably a silly complaint--but I keep expecting a <em>graphic novel</em> to live up to its name and really be a novel, rather than a collection of novellas.  Does this exist?  Or is the genre too influenced by its...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58960411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the very last sandman book that i know of....well, no, i think there are a coupe others, but this is really the last one that gaiman wrote.....maybe i'm wrong though.....oh well.....<br/><br/>i really liked how each of the endless got their own story here.....nice....plus, the art was just amazing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44791587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully illustrated and giving many colorfully complex characters, these stories reflect on all of the sandman's characters including the beloved Death, Delirium, and many more all interweaved together. A must read for the Gaiman fans and those just discovering his genius.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elegantly illustrated stories; a good introduction or supplement to the Sandman series.<br/><br/>Each of the Endless (Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Destruction, and Delight/Delirium) has a story in this book.  They are all beautifully illustrated (although I wonder if the artistic effort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19420991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great idea to have different artists work on each of the stories - I loved seeing their unique realizations of the recurring characters.<br/><br/>I didn't like the Despair story and I didn't understand the Delirium story, but had a great time with the rest.  That Neil Gaiman sure has a top-flight ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51448740">more...</a>]]></body>
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