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    <body><![CDATA[Okay. This was a good one. I read the entire sandman series-all 75 issues-- in about a week, because I pirated them in .cbr format off the web because my college library doesn't have them.<br/>At any rate, I liked it, overall. Most of the art, particularly in the beginning, was absolutely terrible....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21703147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am finally getting around to reading these after saying that I would for years. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going through the series again, I'll just encapsulate it here rather than comment on each volume individually.  It's good.  I tend to get a bit prickly about Neil Gaiman, not because I don't like him, but because there is this contingent that seems to be convinced he's the greatest writer the en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50158774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though it eventually grew on me, and fit the dark depravity of the storyline, I really, REALLY wish the art was better. I mean, yikes. Interesting story which at first repused me, then drew me in. It's a dark look into psyche and meaning, but is not without a glimmer of optimism, which I think is th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62483639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[อ่านเล่มหนึ่งแล้วยังไม่ติด<br/><br/>ตัวเนื้อเรื่องและคาร์แรคเตอร์ของตัว sandman เองนั้นสนุกและน่าสนใจ แต่ว่ามีปั...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74593509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Obviously Gaiman is struggling with his voice and ideas here of how to do this comic and character. But there are flashes of brilliance. This was not the first time I tried to read this book, but it was the first time I succeeded, and I'm glad. My husband always told me that I had to read this volum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43008303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this title up at the suggestion of a few friends because I've found myself interested in Gaiman's writing of late. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ejwise.livejournal.com/122645.html">ejwise</a> said:<blockquote>Gaiman, for the unitiated, is best known for his Sandman comic book series -- or for the more sophisticated, a graphic novel series. (It was serialized before it wa...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47713287">more...</a>]]></body>
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