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Mike
There's nothing particularly graphic in it, but there are some stories that are spooky/unsettling, and there some tame allusions to sex, hints of violence (mostly "off screen"), etc. The stories are written to be unsettling on an existential level, not to be explicit.
A better guide might be whether the reader enjoys it. It plays with a lot of literary and pop culture references, from Gaiman's own books to a variety of world mythologies, to Sherlock Holmes, to Ray Bradbury, to Dr. Who, etc. You wouldn't have to get all of them to enjoy the book (few people can match Gaiman on these things), but someone who would enjoy it would have read (and maybe watched) enough to handle Trigger Warning.
A better guide might be whether the reader enjoys it. It plays with a lot of literary and pop culture references, from Gaiman's own books to a variety of world mythologies, to Sherlock Holmes, to Ray Bradbury, to Dr. Who, etc. You wouldn't have to get all of them to enjoy the book (few people can match Gaiman on these things), but someone who would enjoy it would have read (and maybe watched) enough to handle Trigger Warning.
Scott Bluerock
My (almost) 15 year old daughter wants to read it, but I'd like her to skip "The Thing About Cassandra" (with some talk of hookers and a bit of sex if I recall clearly). I suppose I did let her watch Les Miserables at age 11, so will just let her read away....I don't think she'll care.
Rei ⭐ [TrulyBooked]
Considering that there is (kind of?) a sex scene in it and people get murdered, I would say use your own judgement? In my mind, there's a kind of worldliness that is needed to get some of the nuances in some stories, but it's really up to you.
I'd say that the stories are tamer than the short story collections of Stephen King, but they are still meant to make you uneasy. For me, I definitely wouldn't have liked this collection as much if I were eleven, but I think by the time I was thirteen I would have been able to process the material just fine.
I'd say that the stories are tamer than the short story collections of Stephen King, but they are still meant to make you uneasy. For me, I definitely wouldn't have liked this collection as much if I were eleven, but I think by the time I was thirteen I would have been able to process the material just fine.
Will Byrnes
I am not sure it would be possible to specify an exact age. More significant would be whether or not the reader has read at least a handful of the works that Gaiman writes about here. If you have not read Gaiman before this is not the place to begin. In a way it would be like reading an explanation about a book you have not read. I do not recall material that would be considered inappropriate for young readers.
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