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Neil Gaiman's work is so hit or miss with me; the heck of it is that I can't really tell a miss until it's all over.
This is the second audiobook I've heard this week with a passive narrator as the point of view character. This one is a 7 year old boy (except for the frame story where he's grown to his 40s). So the fact that there's a 40 year old version of him takes away all the suspense about what's going to happen with him and Ursula. There is a lot of heavy, heady description, and a lot of po ...more
This is the second audiobook I've heard this week with a passive narrator as the point of view character. This one is a 7 year old boy (except for the frame story where he's grown to his 40s). So the fact that there's a 40 year old version of him takes away all the suspense about what's going to happen with him and Ursula. There is a lot of heavy, heady description, and a lot of po ...more
*Edit*: Rereading this was an entirely different experience and much much more depressing.
I will argue with you for hours to defend reader's rights to love or hate any book that they want. In Reader's Advisory we stay away from describing "good" books or "well written" books. But for some reason, I feel like I had the wrong reaction to this. I wanted to like it, but it was just....ok. There are some great things. The main character is well developed - flawed and weird but still likable. He is th ...more
I will argue with you for hours to defend reader's rights to love or hate any book that they want. In Reader's Advisory we stay away from describing "good" books or "well written" books. But for some reason, I feel like I had the wrong reaction to this. I wanted to like it, but it was just....ok. There are some great things. The main character is well developed - flawed and weird but still likable. He is th ...more
Fantastic.
"I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world." ...more
"I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world." ...more
I definitely went into this with a chip on my shoulder, but Gaiman charmed my pants off again. He also is, admittedly, a pretty good audiobook narrator. (More later, hopefully.)
Dec 07, 2013
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