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Stardust

Neil Gaiman

Start date: March 15, 2018

Finish date: May 14, 2018

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Sep 25, 2009 Literary Ames rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: stage-and-screen, library-books, read-in-2009, male-authors, fantasy, young-adult, stand-alone, british

Now I love fairy tales, and I love fantasy, but Stardust I did not love. With all of the hype over this book and the movie - which I've yet to see - I expected to like Stardust instantly but that didn’t happen, and after the first fifty pages I was looking for the ending - an unusual thing for me.

Despite being all of 200 pages it has taken me three days to read from beginning to end, with only the last 70 pages flowing easily. The language appears to be written for children but then there are s ...more

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Oct 25, 2009 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

A sweet fairy tale, with just enough darkness that it isn't saccharine. A bit of romance, a bit of sarcasm, a bit of royal intrigue, and a changeling child who loses his heart to a fallen star. What could be more delightful?
Definitely in the same ballpark with The Princess Brideand The Last Unicorn. ...more

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Aug 01, 2009 JS rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

I was curious about the book because I'd seen the movie, which was... weird. I enjoyed the book overall. It was interesting to note the way that certain elements of the book were very Hollywood-ized for the movie. Particularly the action sequencing for resolution in the end and the completely random cross-dressing pirate. Yeah. I liked it fine, but it wasn't anything particularly special, and I liked Neverwhere better.

As with Neil Gaiman in general, there was a bit more sex and swearing than I w ...more

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