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When I started reading this book, I found it rather boring because I like my books straightforward, no experiments with words or ideas etc. I like to know what I'm reading. It's just like with art - I like to know what I'm looking at. But I think that I made a huge mistake at the very beginning - I tried to find some sense in the book, to order the content neatly. With Gaiman, it's not possible. Though once I stopped doing that, I found the book surprisingly enjoyable.
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Jun 08, 2009
Joshua
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Neil Gaiman really knows how to weave a story, setting gods against the backdrop of our modern society- how every door can lead somewhere new, and how cracks in the floor hide worlds underground. He's been doing it since Sandman. When he moved into narrative work with Neverwhere, Coraline, Shadows and Mirrors, he did it again. Seriously whatever the guy writes is gold. His fiction is so great and secular that it rarely translates well into other media (Stardust movie was poor, Neverwhere tv show
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Re-reading with the most excellent George Guidall at the helm.
It's a better audio than print book but I'm just not in the mood for it right now. ...more
It's a better audio than print book but I'm just not in the mood for it right now. ...more
Jun 18, 2007
William
marked it as to-read
Jun 21, 2007
Sarah Sammis
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it was ok
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Sep 02, 2007
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