Andrew✌️’s Comments (group member since May 11, 2013)

Andrew✌️’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I read this book and I found this very disturbing, also if for me this is one of the best works of Neil Gaiman. In first for the wonderful artwork that give to the reader a good range of emotions. Also the story, a voyage throught the past of a man and the horror that hides. A great work!

I'm reading this book and some stories remember me the series "The Twilight Zone". I like it very much, but I'm late.

I was a little disappointed by "The Monarch of glen". I like shadow and the the environment of the Gods, but the story it seems to me a little weak.
I think all stories in this collection should be read more times to be understood, because one time is not enough.

I never read nothing of this series. But after read the first, knowing Gaiman style, I am confident that I would like read the others.

Karen wrote: "I'm getting back to this now and just read "The problem of Susan"
It makes me want to go back and read the Narnia books!

I also really liked "locks". I guess I'm hitting a fairy tale patch in this..."

"The problem of Susan" surprised me. At first because I didn't remember what happened to Susan in Narnia Chronicles. And because the role of Aslan in this case left me perplexed. I liked also the story 'How Do you Think it Feels?' and 'Goliath'. Overall a very good collection of stories.

I hadn't fully understood the story "Closing Time", so thank you Karen. I liked instead very much the story of "Sherlock Holmes" (view spoiler)[Original is the inversion of the parties with Holmes and Watson who are the bad guys and not the investigators (hide spoiler)] and "October in the Chair", very creepy. The story "Bitter Grounds" seems a little confused, but a second reading it's required to fully iunderstand.
Unfortunately, the poems aren't my prefered part.

I'm in, too. I started this book yesterday.

I started this book today, in the ebook version. It's much lighter than American Gods, with less hidden meanings and references to legends and characters, at least until now. I read only the first three chapters.

Sarah wrote: "Jason Momoa who played Drago in Game of Thrones. OMG - What a hunk of burning love. I personally did not picture Shadow as so sexy. This would be so cool if it was made into a series on JOB. One re..."

With all due respect to Momoa, I think Dominic Purcell, quoted in the article, would be more suitable like Shadow.

I don't think Hopkins has the air of a cheater. Instead Malcom McDowell would be perfect.

I've just finished and found it fabulous. Anyone who has read mainly books like Stardust, Coraline or "The Graveyard Book", it might be a little confused by the change of style. It 's definitely a book for adults, for the language and some situations, decidedly raw. I like the fact that there are stories within the main story, help to describe the various deities. I didn't find it heavy at all, although expectations might lead one to think of a book more "Fantasy".

I am in. I had finished the previous book, so I started a few days before.

Karen wrote: "I'm with you Andrew. I did the same and really didn't like how significantly the ending was changed"

Perhaps to ensure an happy ending. The novel ended with a bit of sadness.

Yesterday I watched the movie and although I liked it, I couldn't help but compare every event that happened in the book, noting any differences or lack of it. Overall I liked it, apart from the final entirely rebuilt. Maybe I would have enjoyed more if I hadn't read the book.

Chapter 3-6

This part, with the journey of Tristan in the world of Faery, remember me "Alice in Wonderland". The star, for one reason or another, seem to gather around herself all the characters in a continuous research that brings their road to cross. The lords of Stormhold to devote their lives to the conquest of power, even against their own brothers, finding no peace even after death. It 's true, there are so many side stories that cross the main one, like so many fairy tales in the story.
In addition, the behavior of Tristran toward the star is selfish in the beginning, just to win Victoria seems willing to do everything. But I don't think will last.

Chapter 7-10 - The End

The encounter with the flying ship is a real gem, and also the ending that seems to caplete all the stories to perfection. The finish is a little bitter, going beyond the happy ending and showing the natural evolution of human life and the passage of time on the protagonists (that remember me "The Lord of the Rings").
I had to look on the net to understand the meaning of the reference to "Court of Unseelie", I did not know. I must say that Stardust is closer to a fable of Neverwhere, but I prefer it.

Chapter 1 & 2

This is my fourth Gaiman's book. I see that I am not alone in finding a similarity with Neverwhere. Here there is a wall that divide our world from Faery's world rather than London Above and Below.
Here the contact between the two worlds is more similar to the old legends, where humans were visited by magical creatures, was born a chosen and at the right moment he start a search. All the life of Tristan seem to be in waiting of this.
What surprise me is the ease with which it is received in the village, as everyone seems to have forgotten its origins. But at the right moment they remember where his right place is. And the journey begins.
I've never seen the movie, but just finished the book, I will try to compare them.

I made a little mess and I read last month Neverwhere. Is it a problem if I'll read this month The Graveyard Book?

I started the book yesterday and I must say I love it. In addition to the style of Gaiman that I find fabulous, this story is amazing and the pages run one after the other.

I'm in, but I don't know what book to read this month. I haven't yet bought "Ocean at the End of the Lane", so I think I could read Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

I'll try to complete this challenge. For this month I choose Coraline, and then we will see.