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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this story especially when it came out in a graphic novel of the same title (loved the illustration of the Silver City). Is it possible to kill or murder an angel? If yes, then how was it done? If yes, then what is the reason for it? If yes, then will God punish the evildoer? The story is an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52445913">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Murder Mysteries is metafiction in the form of a graphic novel. It's short, only 64 pages long, and easily read over a lingering cup of coffee. It's two stories, both told as flashbacks, one of a man who ten years earlier spent the night talking to a homeless man on a trip to Los Angeles, and then t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59971073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure if this is supposed to be &quot;canon&quot; within Gaiman's greater Sandman universe (which seems to cross over at times with the overarching DC Comics universe), but it certainly would fit.  This is the story of the first murder, which takes place in heaven during the design and constr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17199428">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was given to me after a discussion of Steven Burst's, <em>To Reign in Hell</em>.  Although applicable to the conversation I truly wish I had read this graphic novel prior to Hill &amp; Rodriquez's work.  It simply fell flat in contrast.  I was jerked from the narrative several times by editing mistakes/gram...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52258281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So... unsettling, really. It's also beautiful, and intricately woven, but them I am a sucker for stories dealing with the Fall--the events leading to Lucifer's turning away from/ being ejected from Heaven. Which is exactly what this is, framed within a very painful modern-day story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned? Not to read any more Neil Gaiman - not for a while anyway.<br/>I've been reading these reviews which leads me to believe that maybe someone missed the biggest mystery.  Can yew say, <em>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd</em>?  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to know that it was originally a radio play; even Better! colour gradation put to its best use. <br/><br/><br/>Has some brilliant lines like:<br/><br/><br/>Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3861865">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite short stories in Graphic Novel form. Beautiful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[By far one of my favorite stories ever.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pictures are good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to the audio version of this on a trip to North Carolina in the middle of the night. My cousin asked me to help him move his girlfriend and this was one of his selections for us to listen to as we drove down there.<br/><br/>Definitely a gripping story that I enjoyed listening to. Genera...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37530026">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful, wonderful story about angels and death and possibly crazy people.  It reminds me of both classic Noir stories and Paradise Lost all at the same time.  I have only read this once, but I have the audio book on my MP3 player at all times.  A delicious, sad, scary story that makes me think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27857607">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[what is so incredible about Gaiman's work, and this piece in particular, is how strangely one is left upon reading that sensation of truth. It is as if there is a nugget of fact to Gaiman's fiction, and, however briefly, one knows the tale to be real. That is the glory of gaiman. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gaiman takes on the fall of Lucifer with the amazing art of P Craig Russell and some of the best use of color I've seen in a while.  The ambiguous ending keeps this from being a true classic but the first 7/8s is Gaiman at his best.]]></body>
    
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