Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of ...
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Feb 05, 2008
Trebro
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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 bes
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Jan 27, 2012
chi
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Endless Nights' glimpse into the lives of the other Endless that I've been longing for is less than satisfying. The stories, as usual, are well crafted but I think the same weakness crops up here as do the other Sandman collections that feature the stand-alone story collections (e.g. Dream Country, Fables & Reflections, et al): although they are good, they just aren't fantastic the way the main story circling about Dream is. Desire's story was downright disappointing, much to my dismay.
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Oct 28, 2011
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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. More...
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. More...
Jul 31, 2011
Airiz
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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 who More...
SPOILERS ABOUND. The first installment, “Death and Venice,” is divided into two narratives: one about a kingdom in Venice who More...
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Jun 21, 2011
Fox
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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 vo More...
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 vo More...
Jun 01, 2011
cindy
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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 thoug More...
So, you know I'm a newbie here, not knowing the artist and all - I always loved Gaiman's work thoug More...
Jan 18, 2010
Jonathan
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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 Tim More...
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 Tim More...
Jan 02, 2012
Meredith
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Nov 01, 2010
Gabriel
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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.
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This is NOT a novel. This is an anthology of short works.
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Nov 30, 2009
Emily
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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
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Aug 12, 2011
Lena
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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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The reason I couldn't give this book all 5 stars is because I expected a closing for More...
Mar 15, 2011
D.M.
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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 t More...
'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 t More...
Sep 13, 2010
Bryce
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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.
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Nov 16, 2010
Ivon
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Terima kasih banyak untuk kebaikan Qui (nama panggilan dari seseorang ber-nickname
Δx Δp ≥ ½ ħ <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1618324-x-p-htgkvkkviholmvobsvzighxofyyzmw</link> (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, E More...
Δx Δp ≥ ½ ħ <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1618324-x-p-htgkvkkviholmvobsvzighxofyyzmw</link> (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, E More...
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Jul 23, 2011
Claire
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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
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Jun 18, 2009
Megan
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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,
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Jan 20, 2010
Ken-ichi
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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
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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.
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In this volume, I particularly liked the choice of artists: the artwork More...
Jun 02, 2009
Eileen
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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
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Mar 21, 2010
Raj
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This is a collection of seven graphic stories, one about each of the Endless (Dream's family from the Sandman series). I really enjoyed this book. Each story "fit" very much into the character that was its focus ("15 Portraits of Dispair" was particularly odd). Chronologically, it went all over the place, from one story set billions of years in the past, to ones set after Sandman and it was nice to get a glimpse of Delight in one of them (pre-Delirium).
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May 12, 2010
Kat
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Gasps. Keels over. Reads again. Flips more.
This is the only Sandman my friend owns, as they're $20 a piece, thus it is the only one I've read.
Tomorrow I'm asking my English teacher for the rest.
Absolutely incredible. Some chapters are better than others, and with a mixture of artists it's full of different flavours. Each of the artists did spectacularly with their chapter, though I'll admit to not being fond of some of the art.
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This is the only Sandman my friend owns, as they're $20 a piece, thus it is the only one I've read.
Tomorrow I'm asking my English teacher for the rest.
Absolutely incredible. Some chapters are better than others, and with a mixture of artists it's full of different flavours. Each of the artists did spectacularly with their chapter, though I'll admit to not being fond of some of the art.
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Feb 02, 2012
Mark
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i had overlooked this book when it was released, discovering it now when a friend asked about the earlier volumes in the series. this volume visits each of the members of gaiman's pantheon the endless in a series of short pieces. the style, both in art and story, varies from familiar sandman dripping gothic charm to ragged experiment. i'm not terribly well versed in graphic novels or comics so i can make little comment about the artists except to say that all found plentiful shared ground wit
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Oct 01, 2009
Ryan
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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 women and sex scenes in many of the stories. Ok, fine, goes with the story somewhat, but, what, guys never get naked?
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Anyway, there's also a story that goes beyond the limits of comic book a More...
Dec 16, 2009
Lizzie
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This is a really good idea for a story collection, so I'm really glad this exists as an addendum, or whatever it is. It would have been good to have had more of this through the rest of the series, actually. The rest of the Endless are at least as interesting as Dream, and often moreso.
Unfortunately the stories didn't really help with the feeling that some of them are underdeveloped, more concepts than characters. Destiny's chapter, for example -- what's the point? It's not parti More...
Unfortunately the stories didn't really help with the feeling that some of them are underdeveloped, more concepts than characters. Destiny's chapter, for example -- what's the point? It's not parti More...
Oct 04, 2010
Debbie
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Seven stories set in the Sandman universe--one for each of the siblings. All were wonderful, but Destruction's and Delirium's were my favorites. Destruction's because we don't see much of him in the regular series. He's left his post.
Delirium's because she is on of my favorites, and we get a glimpse of how she went from Delight to Delirium. We even get to see her as Delight in Desire's story.
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Delirium's because she is on of my favorites, and we get a glimpse of how she went from Delight to Delirium. We even get to see her as Delight in Desire's story.
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Aug 06, 2011
Federiken
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En principio, lo tuve que leer por medios non-sanctos, ya que me resultó imposible encontrar este libro en el mundo físico. Hasta llegué a decir acá mismo "Si algún lector quiere hacer un intercambio equivalente, tengo muchos órganos de lo más sanitos para poner sobre la mesa". Ahora que finalmente conseguí el libro físico (pagando bastante menos que un órgano, por suerte), me mandé a leer las historias que había dejado por imposibles en formato digital, y el resultado hasta ahora no b
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Mar 19, 2010
Jayme
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This was seven different short stories, one for each of the Endless characters. My favourite one was "Dream: The Heart of a Star". The art was gorgeous, totally dreamlike. I think I need to look that guy up and read more books with Miguelanxo Prado as the artist.
I didn't care for either Despair or Delirium's stories. With Despair, I get what Gaiman was going for, but I thought it came off weird and pretentious. Delirium, I liked the story, but hated the artwork, which made More...
I didn't care for either Despair or Delirium's stories. With Despair, I get what Gaiman was going for, but I thought it came off weird and pretentious. Delirium, I liked the story, but hated the artwork, which made More...
Aug 03, 2009
Scot
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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 cosmos-creator Gaiman across the course of the seven stories, featuring, in turn, insights into the Endless siblings Death, Desire, Dream, Despair, Delirium, Destruction, and Destiny.
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Jan 24, 2009
Nikki
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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, "pretty" art, while Delirium's story is all over the place.
It's a very interesting novel. We get to see Delight, and one of Dream's early relationships, and Death in her early years... It's not a groundbreaking volume, really -- we don't learn anything revolutionary about the characters, just read a fe More...
It's a very interesting novel. We get to see Delight, and one of Dream's early relationships, and Death in her early years... It's not a groundbreaking volume, really -- we don't learn anything revolutionary about the characters, just read a fe More...
Apr 02, 2008
Ryan
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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.
That being said, this book specifically is Gaiman revisiting his Endless series 10 years after it finished, providing defining moments in their own personal history, and many of which provide glimpses of who the Endless are and why they occupy the roles tha More...
That being said, this book specifically is Gaiman revisiting his Endless series 10 years after it finished, providing defining moments in their own personal history, and many of which provide glimpses of who the Endless are and why they occupy the roles tha More...
