Trigger Warning
Trigger Warnings, by Neil Gaiman
Blurb:Make sure you secure your own mask before reading. Before being transported to worlds filled with witches, watchers and big black bees, with deathless Kin and pirate girls, with things that prowl in the darkness beyond the circle fire, to find the Shadder lurking at your journey's end. But then what happens? There's always something waiting for you. There's always more. Just keep turning the pages. TRIGGER WARNING is a cornucopia of storytelling: horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry. It will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places. I'll admit, I picked this book up because I fell in love with the cover. I've only read one other book by Neil Gaiman, Stardust, though I have a few others on my TBR list and I'm not a huge fan of short-stories if I'm honest, however, for the most part I enjoyed this book.It's a nice collection of short stories, most of which I enjoyed, though some more than others. I have to say they go better nearer the end, not to say the first half was bad, they just didn't hold my attention all that much. That said, there was only one story in this collection that I didn't like and which I didn't finish reading, 'Nothing O'Clock' - I'm not a fan of Doctor Who at all and just couldn't bring myself to continued reading further than the first few pages. On the other hand, my favourites were 'Down to a Sunless Sea', 'The Return of the Thin White Duke', 'Feminine Endings', which actually creeped me out in a subtle way, 'The Sleeper and the Spindle', 'Witch Work', and 'Black Dog'. The latter was a short story about Shadow from the 'American Gods' book, which I haven't yet read, but after reading 'Black Dog' it's been bumped to the top of my TBR list! All in all, I enjoyed Neil Gaiman's style of writing and the subtle twists in his stories and will definitely be reading more of his books.My favourite quotes from 'Trigger Warning':" 'If you had fought like a man, you would not have died like a dog.' ""I was not doing the right thing. I was doing the only thing.""Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor for ever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, than to have lived, ...""You matter, Shadow, and you must not meet your death here."
Blurb:Make sure you secure your own mask before reading. Before being transported to worlds filled with witches, watchers and big black bees, with deathless Kin and pirate girls, with things that prowl in the darkness beyond the circle fire, to find the Shadder lurking at your journey's end. But then what happens? There's always something waiting for you. There's always more. Just keep turning the pages. TRIGGER WARNING is a cornucopia of storytelling: horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry. It will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places. I'll admit, I picked this book up because I fell in love with the cover. I've only read one other book by Neil Gaiman, Stardust, though I have a few others on my TBR list and I'm not a huge fan of short-stories if I'm honest, however, for the most part I enjoyed this book.It's a nice collection of short stories, most of which I enjoyed, though some more than others. I have to say they go better nearer the end, not to say the first half was bad, they just didn't hold my attention all that much. That said, there was only one story in this collection that I didn't like and which I didn't finish reading, 'Nothing O'Clock' - I'm not a fan of Doctor Who at all and just couldn't bring myself to continued reading further than the first few pages. On the other hand, my favourites were 'Down to a Sunless Sea', 'The Return of the Thin White Duke', 'Feminine Endings', which actually creeped me out in a subtle way, 'The Sleeper and the Spindle', 'Witch Work', and 'Black Dog'. The latter was a short story about Shadow from the 'American Gods' book, which I haven't yet read, but after reading 'Black Dog' it's been bumped to the top of my TBR list! All in all, I enjoyed Neil Gaiman's style of writing and the subtle twists in his stories and will definitely be reading more of his books.My favourite quotes from 'Trigger Warning':" 'If you had fought like a man, you would not have died like a dog.' ""I was not doing the right thing. I was doing the only thing.""Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor for ever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, than to have lived, ...""You matter, Shadow, and you must not meet your death here."
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