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The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House (The Sandman #2)
by
Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author),
Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , Chris Bachalo , Michael Zulli , Steve Parkhouse , Clive Barker
New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision.
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Paperback, 240 pages
Published
October 19th 2010
by DC / Vertigo
(first published June 1st 1990)
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I used to stubbornly think that graphic novels had no intellectual merits other than for amateur entertainment (I know, pedestal). This series not only blew me away visually, but caused me to see graphic novels in a new light. Everyone should read this series.
Here's what i want to say, but someone else said it first and better than i could:
"Erudite, allusive, complex and ambitious, SANDMAN is undoubtedly the finest writing the mainstream comic book industry has ever seen. It dares to tell the st...more
Here's what i want to say, but someone else said it first and better than i could:
"Erudite, allusive, complex and ambitious, SANDMAN is undoubtedly the finest writing the mainstream comic book industry has ever seen. It dares to tell the st...more
Well, I must say right now that this is currently my favorite Sandman book. I read Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturns and really liked it, but there is a part in the middle of it that just didn't grab me. That cannot be said for "The Doll's House". I was hooked from page one, and only got more drawn into the book as it went. Even when there is a side story in the middle of the book, I was still fascinated by the tale. In fact I would say my favorite part of the book is the side story in the middle....more
Hmmm... I'm not sure what to say. I was about to give it only two stars, but I liked the ending.
If you're a fan of these series, you might be thinking, "Three stars?!! Only three stars?!! How could you???"
It's probably just me. I am not a comics fan, and I am still trying to appreciate this genre.
Still, I find this volume more interesting than the first, and I like the illustrations a lot.
But I was often troubled by the darkness, weirdness, and morbidity of the stories.
The Doll's House contains...more
If you're a fan of these series, you might be thinking, "Three stars?!! Only three stars?!! How could you???"
It's probably just me. I am not a comics fan, and I am still trying to appreciate this genre.
Still, I find this volume more interesting than the first, and I like the illustrations a lot.
But I was often troubled by the darkness, weirdness, and morbidity of the stories.
The Doll's House contains...more
While Morpheus starred in the forefront in Preludes and Nocturnes, he takes a backseat in The Doll’s House. Here, mortals—the Walkers—fueled the story.
The Doll’s House treads on the similar path as Preludes and Nocturnes. In the first volume, Morpheus has to find important talismans; in the second volume Morpheus has to seek for dreams that have escaped his realm and morphed into human forms in the wake of the chaotic events in P&N. We get introduced to Rose Walker, a dream vortex that was f...more
The Doll’s House treads on the similar path as Preludes and Nocturnes. In the first volume, Morpheus has to find important talismans; in the second volume Morpheus has to seek for dreams that have escaped his realm and morphed into human forms in the wake of the chaotic events in P&N. We get introduced to Rose Walker, a dream vortex that was f...more
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Gaiman grows the universe of the Sandman in the second volume, The Doll's House. Collecting Sandman issues 9-16, Dream resumes picking up his life and kingdom, attempting to recover several of the nightmares who left his kingdom during his absence - Brute, Glob, and the Corinthian. During his searching, Dream discovers another vortex in the dream-world, this one being a young girl named Rose Walker.[return][return]Rose is looking for her younger brother, Jed, who she hasn't seen for many years....more
Gaiman has clearly found his footing with this volume and story arc. There is much to like in this volume. The characters of Desire and Gilbert are wonderful creations. Ken and Barbie are just creepily terrifying.
I found though, with this volume, that I was more drawn to the breather/break stories that were not part of the main arc. In general, folklore is a story type the always calls to me, so I got very wrapped up in the intro story "Tales in the Sand." And I love the touch that this is the...more
I found though, with this volume, that I was more drawn to the breather/break stories that were not part of the main arc. In general, folklore is a story type the always calls to me, so I got very wrapped up in the intro story "Tales in the Sand." And I love the touch that this is the...more
short review : WOW !!!
long form : The Sandman series gains in confidence and daring, leaves behind most of the influences from the original DC comic and takes flight on its own with the second volume. The eight issue story arc opens with Tales in the Sand : a look at the distant past of the Endless entity known as Dream. Like one of the Greek gods, he falls in love with a mortal - Nada, the queen of a prosperous African tribe. Their union is doomed, and all that remains is a cautionary tale ab...more
The second volume of the Sandman is a much more concentrated effort. It is a continuation of the storyline begun in volume 1, with some of the characters returning. It is also the first hint that there is a bigger story hidden here, concerning the other Endless.
However, I find this second volume only fractionally more interesting than the first. Again, there is the magic number of three (three entities that have gone missing from Dream's realm - to be compared to the three artefacts that were st...more
However, I find this second volume only fractionally more interesting than the first. Again, there is the magic number of three (three entities that have gone missing from Dream's realm - to be compared to the three artefacts that were st...more
Sogno ritorna nel suo regno dopo quasi un secolo di prigionia. Molte cose però sono fuori posto. Alcuni incubi sono fuggiti: la coppia di canaglie Brute e Glob e il più gentile Paradiso dei Marinai, un vero e proprio luogo delle Terre del Sogno che sceglie di incarnarsi in una persona, lo scrittore Chesterton, per camminare un po’ tra i mortali.
Tra loro si aggira anche una delle creature più spaventose inventate da Gaiman: il Corinzio, un serial killer con bocche affollate di denti aguzzi al po...more
Tra loro si aggira anche una delle creature più spaventose inventate da Gaiman: il Corinzio, un serial killer con bocche affollate di denti aguzzi al po...more
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This one was a quicker read for me than Vol. 1, though I can't fully attest that the reason is due to the content since I had some time/laziness issues while reading the first volume.
The first issue in the volume isn't connected to the overall arc; it tells the story of how Dream falls in love with a human tribal queen, Nada, as relayed by a tribal elder to a young man in a coming-of-age ritual. Another issue is also unrelated to the storyline; it details how Dream granted a human immortality....more
The first issue in the volume isn't connected to the overall arc; it tells the story of how Dream falls in love with a human tribal queen, Nada, as relayed by a tribal elder to a young man in a coming-of-age ritual. Another issue is also unrelated to the storyline; it details how Dream granted a human immortality....more
Aug 30, 2012
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This is a much darker, closer to horror, type of graphic novel than I would usually read. There is such violence in the book, sadistic murder, rape, portrayals of evil, and I would usually stop reading. There is too much real violence in the world to make sport of it in literature, and I am always suspicious of rape within literature, especially rape written by men. It is too often gratuitous and not true, too quickly recovered from, too quickly brushed off, and too often used as a short cut of...more
What does a conference of serial killers have in common with escaped dreams, and a girl who is looking for her brother? Nothing, or (if you're Neil Gaiman), everything. In the Doll's House, Dream begins to rebuild his kingdom, seeking down four missing major arcana (dreams) and dealing with the threat of a dream vortex. In this book, you start to see Gaiman's consummate talent as a storyteller emerge. Multiple threads rise out of a seemingly simple story of a girl looking for her lost brother, a...more
Mar 14, 2012
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6 stars!!!
After reading Neil Gaiman’s first graphic novel in the “Sandman” series “Preludes and Nocturnes,” I just had to read more from this fantastic series and lo and behold, I have just picked up the second volume of the “Sandman” series, “The Doll’s House!” “The Doll’s House” is just as dark and gritty as the first volume and this will be a volume that fans will cherished for many years!
After the events of “Preludes and Nocturnes,” Dream (known as “The Sandman” or Morpheus) goes back and t...more
After reading Neil Gaiman’s first graphic novel in the “Sandman” series “Preludes and Nocturnes,” I just had to read more from this fantastic series and lo and behold, I have just picked up the second volume of the “Sandman” series, “The Doll’s House!” “The Doll’s House” is just as dark and gritty as the first volume and this will be a volume that fans will cherished for many years!
After the events of “Preludes and Nocturnes,” Dream (known as “The Sandman” or Morpheus) goes back and t...more
This book includes #8 ("The Sound of Her Wings"), which was also reprinted in The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes. It's a good issue, but I begrudge paying for the same thing twice, and it takes up extra space on my shelf. Still, I think that's mainly a product of its time. When these TPBs came out, it wasn't standard practice to reprint an entire series in paperbacks (certainly not 6 months after the issues came out); my editions don't have numbers on the spines, so the publishers proba...more
The Sandman has returned to his country of dreams, but his long absence is still showing -- he's gotten his magical items back, but not all of his followers. "The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House" picks up some threads from the first collection of Sandman stories, and while the story is often confusing and scattered, Neil Gaiman's writing is a glittering jewel of sadness, horror and beauty.
Among the current-day stories, we get some Dream backstory. As part of his coming-of-age ritual, a young b...more
Among the current-day stories, we get some Dream backstory. As part of his coming-of-age ritual, a young b...more
In the second installment of Gaiman's superb Sandman series, he continues to explore the intersection of reality and fantasy, challenging notions of 'certainty' and exposing them to mere constructs of our perception.
Morpheus, the king of the dream world, discovers that four of his subjects have disappeared during his incarceration. 3 of them are evil and one good. Out of them The Corinthian i found the most chilling. After his escape from the dreamworld, for forty years he has been roaming the l...more
Morpheus, the king of the dream world, discovers that four of his subjects have disappeared during his incarceration. 3 of them are evil and one good. Out of them The Corinthian i found the most chilling. After his escape from the dreamworld, for forty years he has been roaming the l...more
Pretty good graphic novel, the second I've ever read. I liked this book less well than the first in the Sandman series. The character I do like, though he's often rather cruel. He's an eternal, and they aren't cruel or kind, really, they just are, I guess. Much less cruel he is than his sister Death, I suppose. The ending was satisfying when the right thing seemed to happen.
I think the graphic novel format is not one that appeals to me much. For one thing, it's hard for me to tell in what order...more
I think the graphic novel format is not one that appeals to me much. For one thing, it's hard for me to tell in what order...more
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Has any comic book ever garnered such claim of being smart and deep? Well, very few comics accomplished that goal. One of them is Sandman; a series that blew everyone away for its sheer quality and approach to the fantasy genre.
In this story arc, our dreams now has a vortex. A vortex is a part of the human conscience in the dreamworld that can affect dreams by allowing the dreamer to see other dreams. This problem leads to a network of dreamers to combine together. Morpheus now has to kill her i...more
In this story arc, our dreams now has a vortex. A vortex is a part of the human conscience in the dreamworld that can affect dreams by allowing the dreamer to see other dreams. This problem leads to a network of dreamers to combine together. Morpheus now has to kill her i...more
I entered Neil Gaiman's world a skeptic, not knowing whether this genre would be a good match for me. I'm not your typical comic book kid, and my literary/cinematic leanings tend toward the original and quirky more than the dark and mystical. I was worried the Sandman series would be too gloomy, too violent, too uncomfortable. And somewhere in the back of my mind I'd gotten it confused and thought the series was about vampires, one of those trendy teen series that I've been eschewing for the pas...more
"L'Amore appartiene al Desiderio, e il Desiderio è sempre crudele"
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Parlare di "The Sandman" mi mette imbarazzo e non solo, perché di fronte ad un'opera mastodontica e superiore come questa non posso che sentirmi un mero ammasso di carne pensante per sbaglio, per una malata frizione casuale tra i miei neuroni.
La verità è che "The Sandman" è l'opera di un genio fuori dal comune, che non si può comprendere mai del tutto, nemmeno leggendolo mille volte. Per la profondità...more
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Sulla serie in generale:
Parlare di "The Sandman" mi mette imbarazzo e non solo, perché di fronte ad un'opera mastodontica e superiore come questa non posso che sentirmi un mero ammasso di carne pensante per sbaglio, per una malata frizione casuale tra i miei neuroni.
La verità è che "The Sandman" è l'opera di un genio fuori dal comune, che non si può comprendere mai del tutto, nemmeno leggendolo mille volte. Per la profondità...more
When I began reading this book I found it to be too quirky and disjointed, but at the end I had learned to love the quirks, and for the most part most of the disjointed parts tied together seamlessly. There are still some loose threads that left me irked (Sandman's child, and I had almost completely forgotten about the Patrick Nagel-looking Desire until she showed up on the last pages) but despite it all this was a gripping dreamscape with plenty of beautiful imagery and illustration.
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The Doll's House is the second in Gaiman's Sandman series, after Preludes and Nocturnes, and I must say I am now hooked. I did enjoy the first novel, but I didn't feel that burning need to read the second - the true mark that I am not totally in love with a series. The Doll's House, on the other hand, I was sad to finish, and I'm already planning on heading to Barnes and Noble to pick up the next two graphic novels in the series...probably today.
Many times when I read something I deem creepy, it...more
Many times when I read something I deem creepy, it...more
Stories involving gods and/or immortals can be hit or miss. This series features a group of people called the Endless (e.g. Destiny, Death, Desire), who exist even longer than gods because either they do not need belief to sustain them, or because it's impossible for people not to believe in them.
Dream (a.k.a. the Sandman) was locked up for a bunch of years, and is trying to clean up the mess in this series. This particular volume involves him trying to capture some loose citizens of his world,...more
Dream (a.k.a. the Sandman) was locked up for a bunch of years, and is trying to clean up the mess in this series. This particular volume involves him trying to capture some loose citizens of his world,...more
I'm tempted to tag this with 'gouge-my-eyes-out' simply because of the Corinthian.
Although I'd heard about the Cereal Convention several years ago (thank you, internet), I liked reading about it and all the different characters that appeared throughout. I liked the subtle hints to their motives- Dog Soup, for instance. I would have liked a longer backstory on the killers, but I understand that it would have deviated from the main story and there wouldn't have been much point to it.
I also liked...more
Although I'd heard about the Cereal Convention several years ago (thank you, internet), I liked reading about it and all the different characters that appeared throughout. I liked the subtle hints to their motives- Dog Soup, for instance. I would have liked a longer backstory on the killers, but I understand that it would have deviated from the main story and there wouldn't have been much point to it.
I also liked...more
Mar 19, 2013
Paul Nelson
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First issue kicks off with Dream falling in love with a mortal queen named Nada; and she also falls in love with him. Dream is one of the Endless and Nada knows that they can never be together and she refuses to marry him, Dream sentences Nada to hell and her kingdom is ruined. This is one of several stories within the main story, each taking you into Dreams head a little at a time.
The main story thread starts in the second issue with a girl Rose Walker, who is the granddaughter of Unity Kincaid...more
The main story thread starts in the second issue with a girl Rose Walker, who is the granddaughter of Unity Kincaid...more
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Mám ráda komixy a myslím, že "něco" už jsem si přečetla. S trochou nadsázky ale můžu říct, že až dneska jsem viděla pořádný komix... :D
Neil Gaiman je skvělý autor - to vím. Ale až teď, po přečtení Domečku pro panenky si úplně uvědomuju, jak nekonečnou, bohatou a úžasnou ten muž má fatazii. x)) A dokonce i ty kresby, které se mi z počátku nelíbily, jsem si zamilovala... :D Sandman je příběh (pardon - soubor příběhů, kterou se prolíná křehká dějová linie), který mě strhl, který má svou netušenou h...more
Neil Gaiman je skvělý autor - to vím. Ale až teď, po přečtení Domečku pro panenky si úplně uvědomuju, jak nekonečnou, bohatou a úžasnou ten muž má fatazii. x)) A dokonce i ty kresby, které se mi z počátku nelíbily, jsem si zamilovala... :D Sandman je příběh (pardon - soubor příběhů, kterou se prolíná křehká dějová linie), který mě strhl, který má svou netušenou h...more
The Doll's House has solidified Neil Gaiman's position as ruler of the fantasy realm in my opinion. It is disturbing and intriguing and I loved it even more than Volume 1! This second installment expands on the story of Dream and his struggle to take back his realm after many years of imprisonment. It's darker, creepier and sort of romantic. Is it weird that I may be in love with a character in a graphic novel? Dream is the perfect mysterious stranger--the man that haunts your dreams.
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Jun 02, 2009
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Reprints The Sandman #9-16 (earlier editions include issue #8). The Sandman works to rebuild the Dreaming and is faced with the surfacing of a Vortex in Rose Walker. This collection of the Sandman begins to show why The Sandman was a unique comic. Characters in The Sandman that could easily be written off as one dimensional, are given depth as the Sandman's effects on the world become evident. In this story Rose Walker, the granddaughter of Unity Kincaid (a minor victim of the sleeping sickness...more
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“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to desire, and desire is always cruel”
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“The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
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