Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)

by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)

published	October 1st 2007 by Harper Perennial
first published	2006
binding	Paperback
isbn	0061252026 (isbn13: 9780061252020)
pages	416
description	A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night. . . . In a Hugo Award-win...more [close] A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night. . . . In a Hugo Award-winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England. . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams—and nightmares. . . . These marvelous creations and more showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brilliance—as well as the terrifyingly dark and entertaining sense of humor—of the incomparable Neil Gaiman. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most original writers of our time. [close]
date added	05-12-07 edit book

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Jake

Jake rated it:

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06/05/08

Continuing in my quest to work through a book by each of my favorite authors, I moved on to Fragile Things, the latest collection of short stories from Neil Gaiman. While there are a few older works of Gaiman’s I haven’t gotten around to reading, I figured this one was new and fresh, and so I should give it a shot. I’ve also been wanting to do some short story writing of my own, and figured this would be a good way to explore that particular medium a bit more.

Technically, Fragile Things ...more

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Jesse

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05/11/08

Read in March, 2008

Every so often, I am consumed with the desire to revisit those nerd days, or nerd-reading days, not kidding ourselves about our dialectical relation to nerdiness today, and devour some...well, what I used to be nerdishly clear about reading was science fantasy, which was sort of a specialized subset of both genres: barbarians vs. ray guns, that sort of thing. (From what I can tell now, the present-day analogue is these 9-book, 900-page-novel series people keep writing, which surely has some Inte...more Every so often, I am consumed with the desire to revisit those nerd days, or nerd-reading days, not kidding ourselves about our dialectical relation to nerdiness today, and devour some...well, what I used to be nerdishly clear about reading was science fantasy, which was sort of a specialized subset of both genres: barbarians vs. ray guns, that sort of thing. (From what I can tell now, the present-day analogue is these 9-book, 900-page-novel series people keep writing, which surely has some Internet-age atavism to it.) I recall liking L. Sprague de Camp a lot, though I think I could name maybe one of his books now. Am not sure that any other genre is any less boundary-policing (cozy mysteries, historicals, hard-boiled, procedurals; or the various declensions of the romance novel, all distinguished by explicitness), so maybe it's the nerdish fervor you see here about what goes, and doesn't go, in which category that's distinctive.

Anyway, so I saw the latest Neil Gaiman collection, Fragile Things, I think first when we were stuck at JFK for like 4 hours, and thought, hey, that looks like fun. Had heard he was good but never really investigated. S. noted that he has one of the all-time worst names to have in middle school, though maybe marginally less so in England. (Whereas if he'd been Neil Poof...) Made me wonder about the whole chicken-and-egg aspect, since the kind of writer you're going to get laughed at for carrying around in middle school has precisely the sort of name that's going to get laughed at in middle school. Maybe there's some sort of genetic determinism at work. Nobody named Buffo McBully writes SF or whatever 12-year-old nerds read; nope, they're named Gaiman or Moorcock. Or Lovecraft. Seriously, it's like you're just not allowed to publish unless your name can be somehow rendered snickeringly sexual.

Soo...found a copy used, read it, and loved it. Gaiman's genius is to take one-liners as story ideas (dotty old bat finds Holy Grail, Sherlock Holmes vs. Lovecraft monsters, Grendel in the Scottish highlands, Snow White as a vampire [she does, after all, look pretty damn pale]) and really think them out past the gimmick; it's as if the idea of the backstory that could result, and the world it implies, entices him as much as the conceptual bridge built by x-plus-y. Not as easy as it looks, either: the first story in the collection, "A Study in Emerald," was for a Holmes-meets-Lovecraft anthology, which I duly got from the library, having spent considerable time in both vineyards. (Speaking of which: Cthulhu cakes exist and are on the web! If only one could bake a non-Euclidean pastry.) And his story stands out considerably there, too, since it's really the only one that goes anywhere beyond the narrative proposition, "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a giant cross-dimensional gibbering mind-sucking non-Euclidean entity!" Makes you realize how thin are the metaphorical resources HPL offers you, though Gaiman turns his baddies into the eternal Euro ruling class, which is a nice little inbred-royalty joke as well.

Also liked his first collection, and really loved Stardust, the movie, which has the whole Princess Bride snarky-fantasy thing going on. (Recommended it to several conveniently-located teenagers, at least one of whom pronounced it "pretty rad," in only a semi-ironic way.) Then, really getting into the spirit, read China Mieville's Un-Lun-Dun, which had gotten several positive reviews, and had quite a good time. The heroine's not who everyone thinks she's supposed to be, the invention is ceaseless and owes more to Lewis Carroll than JKR, and there's a neat environmentalist theme as well. (Plus some well-plotted visions of tolerance for the different, the creative, and the socially-constructed.) Which is of course what novels nerds like say, right?...less

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Tita

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07/30/07

Fragile Things ini kumpulan cerita yang nggak kalah menarik dari Smoke & Mirrors. Temanya meloncat2 dari satu ke yang lain, namun semuanya tetap pada satu garis fantasi, thriller, bahkan suspense, yang sering berbumbu humor. Berikut ini beberapa judul favorit saya dari buku tsb:

October in the Chair
Para dua belas bulan duduk bersama, melingkar mengitari api unggun. Oktober yang sedang mendapat giliran duduk di Kursi memimpin acara kumpul2 ini, di mana masing2 bulan boleh saling b...more

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Kristen

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04/24/08

Read in April, 2008

recommends it for: Anyone who ever wanted to be seen as gothic and mysterious, just once in their lives.

I owe Neil Gaiman a huge debt.
Not only for his exceptional contribution to literature, and the arts in general, over the last few years.
But for this reason: Reading "Fragile Things" has confirmed one of my greatest fears.

I don't like short story compilations.

It all started with Alice Munroe's "Hateship Loveship Friendship Courtship" or whatever it's called. I could not get through that book no matter how hard I tried. And I tried. Ever since then I have blamed...more I owe Neil Gaiman a huge debt.
Not only for his exceptional contribution to literature, and the arts in general, over the last few years.
But for this reason: Reading "Fragile Things" has confirmed one of my greatest fears.

I don't like short story compilations.

It all started with Alice Munroe's "Hateship Loveship Friendship Courtship" or whatever it's called. I could not get through that book no matter how hard I tried. And I tried. Ever since then I have blamed my dislike of story compliations of the author(s) But oh! How unfair I have apparently been.

Here is Neil Gaiman, an author I always respect even when not enamored with his work and the best I could do to describe the book to a friend was "Ehhhh, it was good. Long. Not like, long long, but, long like, it too me a LONG time to read. I don't know why."

But now I do.

The pleasure in reading, for me, has always come from a connection to a character. Not a connection where I felt similair traits were present, but a connection where said character was a conduit for me into the world of the book, a guide and a cheerleader to keep on with my path.

Gaiman's book is full of characters, but none of them last longer than their individual story. I would find myself invested in a world only to have it ripped away from me 15 pages later. It is no coincidence that the stories I enjoyed the most were the ones that used an established character: Susan Pevensie from the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis in "The Problem of Susan" and Shadow from Gaiman's own "American Gods."

That being said, I'm not sure Gaiman's style is as well suited for the format of short story. Gaiman is an author who plops his reader down into the world of the book with very little exposition given first. There is none of the comfortable easing into it that so many contemporary authors rely on to hook their audeince. It is one of the thinks that makes him so popular with a certain kind of reader. That assumption that his audience will figure it out, and when they do they'll be so excited that they will hardly be able to stop themselves from turning back and starting from the beginning with their new knowledge.

These stories once you find yourself, forgive the pun, on the same page with the action you are reading, seem to end almost too abruptly. There is very little time for the joy of discovery to sink in, before the story is coming to it's mysterious conclusion.

Still.

"Harlequinn's Valentine" is great fun and "October in the Chair" is a heartbreaking ghost story: literally. If you find that you enjoyed this book, I would point you towards "Coraline" "American Gods" or "Anansi Boys." It's rather like the appetizer vs. the entree. It depends on how much you want. ...less

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Scott

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01/15/08

Read in January, 2008

From FALKNER REVIEWS

In the introduction to the story called "Sunbird", Neil writes about a R.A. Lafferty, describing Lafferty's stories as 'unclassifiable and odd and imitable'.

The same could - and should - be said about Neil Gaiman.
"Fragile Things" is Gaiman's second collection of short fiction. How do you describe these stories? Perhaps 'fantasy' would cov...more From FALKNER REVIEWS

In the introduction to the story called "Sunbird", Neil writes about a R.A. Lafferty, describing Lafferty's stories as 'unclassifiable and odd and imitable'.

The same could - and should - be said about Neil Gaiman.
"Fragile Things" is Gaiman's second collection of short fiction. How do you describe these stories? Perhaps 'fantasy' would cover it all, but certainly not sufficiently. 'Speculative' is really the only label you can hang on each story and poem... and yet, each piece is so much more than just speculative. There's a heartbeat to Gaiman's work that for my money is unmatched in contemporary literature. There's an intimacy, especially with his short work, that seems to put the reader at ease even when the topic is unsettling. I believe I've written in the past about what I think of as Gaiman's 'conversational' prose - it sounds corny, but when you read stories like these, you honestly feel like he's right there next to you, making sure you hear every enunciation.

Some of the highlights of this collection for me, personally, were "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" (which you don't have to be a writer to appreciate but it certainly helps), "Closing Time" (because I frequented taverns like that in my younger years and it was all very familiar), "The Problem of Susan" (because I've always wondered what became of her as well), "Instructions" (I wish very much that I had written that...), "How do you Think it Feels?" (this one... I don't know. I'm not sure I want to get too comfortable with why I liked it), "My Life" (reminds me of a Tom Waits song... something about dancing lessons.... maybe?), "Feeders and Eaters" (creeped me out), "The Day the Saucers Came" (all that's good and whimsical), "The Monarch of the Glen" (more Shadow, more Mr. Smith, more Mr. Alice - yay).

Just good, great stuff. The introductions to each piece give you some insight as to why, how, and where they were written. They let you ride shotgun with Neil's imagination, and that's a mighty fine place to be. As an aside, I put off reading each introduction until after I'd read the story they pertained to. I guess I'm a bit of a freakozoid about avoiding spoilers... to an extent.

A whiz-bang of a book. Absolutely wonderful....less

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Molly

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06/28/08

Read in June, 2008

Brief reactions to select favorite pieces:

A Study in Emerald (pp1-25) ~ Its sole apparent weakness—the danger of any piece of tribute: impossibility of capturing the precise style of the original—proves to be an absolute strength and to the benefit of the twist ending. Which indeed provides the greatest warmth to a Holmes' fan's heart.

The Problem of Susan (pp181-190) ~ The reason I picked up this book initially, and the first story I read: the only one out of sequence. ...more Brief reactions to select favorite pieces:

A Study in Emerald (pp1-25) ~ Its sole apparent weakness—the danger of any piece of tribute: impossibility of capturing the precise style of the original—proves to be an absolute strength and to the benefit of the twist ending. Which indeed provides the greatest warmth to a Holmes' fan's heart.

The Problem of Susan (pp181-190) ~ The reason I picked up this book initially, and the first story I read: the only one out of sequence. Not what I'd expected. For some reason had expected something more academic, not visceral, not explicit (in the sense of being quite open about who the main character is, though also sexually). Perhaps the real reactance to Lewis is precisely that, the twisting of the icons to something quite out of sync with the Christian models. Found it inexplicably unsatisfying on initial read, but it stuck with me, and I was compelled to reread it and it continues to stick.

Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot (pp209-217) ~ I recently picked up a [completely unrelated] book of "complete short stories of 55 words or less". I didn't read the whole thing because the few I scanned didn't do it for me. These fifteen disparate glimpses provided by Gaiman absolutely do it.

The Day the Saucers Came (pp271-272) ~ Anyone who doesn't think Gaiman has a sense of humor should check this poem out. It could be argued to either prove them wrong or right, I guess. I loved it.

The Monarch of the Glen (pp301-355) ~ Follow-up novella to American Gods. Probably wouldn't have liked it as much without having read American Gods and Keepsakes and Treasures (earlier this book pp113-131). Still, as Gaiman says, definitely nice to catch up with Shadow. Also, maintains the atmosphere and delicious elusiveness* of AG (*of anything too definitive?), nice playing with myth but in a way befittingly independent of AG. And having my one itch unsatisfied by AG being solid answers to my internal questions about Shadow, this story deals with them right up front without undo fuss or strain.

There are other pieces I enjoyed quite a lot, and there was nothing in here I wish I'd skipped....less

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Jenn

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03/06/08

bookshelves: fantasy, paranormal, read-in-2008, sci-fi

Read in February, 2008

This book is a mixed collection of short stories and poems by Neil Gaiman. It's an interesting mix. There were several stories that I liked, but just as many that I did not. Gaiman's style is lyric and descriptive, with lots of imagery and an emphasis on individual characters. Some of the stories felt more like ancedotes than short stories and some were satisfying little dips into other realities. It might be easiest for this to go over the high points, and the reason I'm giving it 4 stars:

A...more This book is a mixed collection of short stories and poems by Neil Gaiman. It's an interesting mix. There were several stories that I liked, but just as many that I did not. Gaiman's style is lyric and descriptive, with lots of imagery and an emphasis on individual characters. Some of the stories felt more like ancedotes than short stories and some were satisfying little dips into other realities. It might be easiest for this to go over the high points, and the reason I'm giving it 4 stars:

A Study In Emerald - this is the book opener and a good one. It's a Sherlock Holmes story set in an alternate reality Victorian London. Very well written. I particuarly liked how the title was pulled from the text and the delightful, playfull dialogue throughout.

The Fairy Reel - A lyric poem that is one of my favorites.

The Monarch of the Glen - a short story that follow's Gaiman's character, Shadow, after the events of his book American Gods. I haven't read American Gods yet, and I was still on the fence about whether to bother with it. This short story has convinced me to give the book a try. Nice detail and good characterization.

Sunbird - A little off-kilter, this story about an epicurean society and their quest for the ultimate meal is fun, quirky and unexpected.

October in the chair - I liked this story of the 12 months sitting around sharing stories one night. They were interestingly portrayed and the story was intrigueing. It felt unfinished but I still liked it.

- this short story set in the Matrix-verse was also well down. I liked the main character and how the story trips along in unexpected ways, finally circling back to a satisfying conclusion.

The Problem of Susan - I actually didn't like this story, not in the end. It had a really promising beginning but then got lost in a thicket of symbolism and analogy that missed the mark. Gaimain's protagonist was strong and compelling and if it wasn't for the ending I'd have marked it as a favorite. The dream is too unclear and leaves too much to interpretation....less

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Ghibli

Ghibli rated it:

05/15/08

Read in May, 2008

Still reading it but slightly disappointed...

***

(not a typical review, just impressions :P)

Finally read it, it took an eternity. The reason may be that it had some low points in the middle. I didn't really understand how the ending of "Closing Time" works (ruined all for me) and why the story deserves an award. I didn't like the zombie story as well, and the vampire ones were too dark, pure despair without any meaning; kind of like life, actually, and I don't want life at i...more Still reading it but slightly disappointed...

***

(not a typical review, just impressions :P)

Finally read it, it took an eternity. The reason may be that it had some low points in the middle. I didn't really understand how the ending of "Closing Time" works (ruined all for me) and why the story deserves an award. I didn't like the zombie story as well, and the vampire ones were too dark, pure despair without any meaning; kind of like life, actually, and I don't want life at its darkest, I want some sun and fantasy as in Sunbird to make it bearable (escapism ftw!). One or two pieces really didn't make sense out of context (written to accompany music by Tori Amos - it says so in the introduction but I did not know that because I do not read introductions till I've read the thing, they tend to include spoilers; so I had to wander what I was reading and struggle to find some coherence). I particularly disliked "Feeders and Eaters", because it had this feeling of utter misery and nothing to reward me for enduring it; I was not surprised when the intro said it was an account of a nightmare. Dreams really don't work as stories, I agree with Mr. Gaiman on that :)

On the other hand, when it was good, it was good :)
The "Study in Emerald" is, of course, a masterpiece; I have not read anything by H. P. Lovecraft but the story made me understand him as if I know him (and put him much higher on the "to read" list). "Forbidden brides" is a witty joke that I really liked, "October in the chair" is very touching, "Sunbird" very Zelazny-ish (and that is high praise, in case you wander :P), "Goliath" has a true SF feel and great power. On the whole my impressions are positive; I think on a future re-reading I will like better even the pieces I did not like now. So, four stars from me :)

P.S. I think the hype around this book is a bit damaging. If I had not expected the oh-how-great work (all my friends recommended it), I might have liked better even the parts that I saw as weak....less

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Tadpole316

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06/10/08

bookshelves: 2008

Read in June, 2008

In the past I had given little thought to Neil Gaiman. In the early 1990's I had the opportunity to leaf through a couple of issues of 'Sandman'. I thought it was very intriguing, what little I could gather from jumping into a serial mid-stream, but I did not have the time or money to pursue it further. Since then I knew that he was out there doing his thing, and I was glad of it, which is the typical feeling that I get for an author whose name I recognize only from the bookstore shelf.

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Amy

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05/27/08

bookshelves: 2008, litfantasy, shortstories

Read in February, 2008

I worship Neil Gaiman, of course, for his Sandman comics cycle, a long masterpiece that I personally think he can never top. For some weird reason, the books I've read by him have not hooked me. I've tried Neverwhere, and what I remember from that are the spooky bad guys, who I know had odd and interesting names (although I can't tell you what they were at this momemnt) and some kind of floating flea market. And I read American Gods. That made such an impression that a couple of years later I to...more

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Johnsergeant

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01/21/08

bookshelves: audiblecom, audiobook

Read in January, 2008

just downloaded from audible.com

Program Type: Audiobook (Fiction); Unabridged
Narrator: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Audio, 2006
Length: 10 hours and 51 min.

Locus Award, Best Collection, 2007
Audie Award Finalist, Short Stories, Collections, 2007

Publisher's Summary
A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it.

In a novella set two years after the events of Am...more

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Amanda

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08/25/07

bookshelves: fantasy, good, horror, weird

Read in August, 2007

recommends it for: Fans of Gaiman/weirdness/short stories

Gaiman is a master of adult fairy tales. Though I love his writing overall, I'm not above saying that I'm not really a fan of some of his stuff. This book is a collection of short stories, and rather than being able to judge the whole book as a whole, I sort of have to think of each part separately.

Unfortunately, I have neither the time or the motivation to focus on each short story, so this review will be a little bit canned.

The stories in "Fragile Things" are perhaps not as...more

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Leah

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08/20/07

Read in August, 2007

recommends it for: Anyone looking for an engrossing read without the commitment of a full novel

I found this book while rummaging around looking for something to read. A happy coincidence given that I was planning a beach trip and wanted something a little 'lighter' to read between salt-water immersions. This was the perfect beach book. The stories are not light per se, but they are universally engrossing and their brevity keeps them from veering into tedium. All have an 'otherworldly' feel to them; some characters are fantastic inventions imbued with human emotions, whilst the humans...more

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Leslie

Leslie rated it:

04/30/08

Read in April, 2008

One of the things that Neil Gaiman does best is demonstrated quite clearly in this collection: he takes a situation that could be perfectly normal, and adds some surreal or creepy twist to it. One particularly good example of this is the story Pages From A Journal Found In A Shoebox Left In A Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Louisville, Kentucky - wherein the protagonist is looking for a mysterious woman named Scarlet, and every character we encounter through this prota...more

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Justin

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07/03/07

Read in June, 2007

recommends it for: Gaiman fans

Fragile Things is a book for Gaiman fans. His fantastical craft is apparent here in several of the stories, but are watered down by sub-par additions to the collection.

Fragile Things starts out strong with some of the best stories in the collection but wears thin. My favorite story was about a writer living in a fantasy world that thought his world mundane when written, so he decides to write about toasters and standard life... I can't do the story justice in my description but it truly is ...more

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Lily

Lily rated it:

06/23/08

Read in June, 2008

recommends it for: fans of sci-fi, fantasy, mythology, magical realism.

I don't really know where to begin, so I'll start with a disclaimer. I have an almost cultish obsession with Neil Gaiman's writing. So take anything I say with a grain of salt. Or maybe a whole salt lick.

That said, I greatly enjoyed this book. It's Gaiman at his best--a collection of short stories and poems, not an overblown novel. Each piece beautifully encapsulates a quirky idea that crossed Gaiman's mind.

For once in my life, I was disappointed with some of the stories. Having li...more

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Kristen

Kristen rated it:

03/23/08

bookshelves: fantasy, own

Read in October, 2007

recommends it for: Neil Gaiman fans, fantasy fans

Of all the stories/poems in here, there were only three that I really didn't get into. Ironically enough, they listed them in the description on the inside cover.

My favorites were:
October in the Chair - the months gather to tell stories. Each month has their own distinct personality.

Harlequin Valentine - creepy, but not to the point where I got grossed out.

The Problem of Susan - about Susan from the Narnia books, how the "disposal of Susan to be intensely...more

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Mary

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12/01/07

Read in November, 2007

recommends it for: everyone

Obviously, I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman and will pretty much enjoy anything that he writes. His short stories, though, have always been particular favorites of mine, because he captures the spirit of them so well. There are a lot of authors that do fair to middle short stories, and some who can't write them worth a crap, but even Gaiman's less awesome ones are ten times better than many others.

This collection contains some of my favorite Gaiman short stories, so it's always a pleasure to ...more

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Kim

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06/07/08

bookshelves: 08books, audio

Read in May, 2008

I have tried listening to audiobooks before and I've been very bad at it. I lose interest almost immediately and find my attention on everything but the book. I listened to this in short spurts in April and May while I was traveling and knitting a plain stockinette sock--finally, it seems that I can in fact enjoy an audiobook, as long as nothing else is trying to get my attention.

The stories are perfect Gaiman stories; very few of them didn't engage me. I think it helped a lot that Gaiman hi...more

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Erin

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12/05/07

Read in September, 2007

I'm fairly stingy about giving out 5 stars, but if you're a big fan of Gaiman they're hard to avoid.

Simply put, I find Gaiman to be a fantastic writer. His characters are unique but detailed enough that you get a sense of who they are, even in short bites like this one. Frequently you realize at the end of a story that he's just put a very offbeat twist on a familiar tale, which is a form of writing I find very compelling. It's hard to get something new out of old archetypes, after all.
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