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4.55 AVERAGE
4.55 AVERAGE
This is spectacular, it's so good I don't have other worda for it, just go listen to it.
I've tried reading Gaiman before but could never really get into it so thought I'd give the audiobook a go and wow, thrilled I did - it's well worth the listen!
At times very dark and disturbing but overall, I really enjoyed the stories though everything is elevated to the next level with the quality of the audio production. Great stuff.
At times very dark and disturbing but overall, I really enjoyed the stories though everything is elevated to the next level with the quality of the audio production. Great stuff.
It’s very interesting to listen to a graphic novel as the graphic part is lost but the voice acting was very good (especially McAvoy) and once I accepted it I was able to get into it. Very high production value but it is a bit like listening to a movie in the next room.
This was an amazing audiobook. The multiple voice actors, sound effects and music really make this amazing. I had read a couple of the comics and enjoyed them so I knew I would enjoy the audiobook version. It blew me away and I highly recommend that you listen to it if you are a fan of the comics or even if you don’t like comics.
Questo non è un semplice audiolibro, è una vera e propria esperienza. Qui c'è una storia geniale a cavallo tra mitologia, mondo dei fumetti e letteratura. Morfeo (o il signore dei sogni o il Sandman tra i suoi molti nomi) è un signor personaggio ed è interpretato alla perfezione. Il cast di attori (io ho ascoltato la versione in italiano) è ad altissimi livelli così come gli effetti sonori, per non parlare della colonna sonora MERAVIGLIOSA. Tra i personaggi secondari il mio preferito è sicuramente Morte, sorella del Signore dei Sogni; infatti "Il Battito delle sue Ali" è stato uno dei miei capitoli preferiti. L'atmosfera che questo audiolibro riesce a creare è indescrivibile, la terra dei sogni è un mondo così sfumato ma allo stesso tempo suggestivo e coinvolgente. Spero tanto che escano altri capitoli al più presto perchè ne sento gia la mancanza. Intanto sicuramente recupererò altro di Niel Gaiman.
I have a kind of middle of the road feeling about this, so I'm going to plop my rating right in the middle. I fully admit I'm not a big reader of graphic novels (or surely I'd have read this before now). This means I didn't have any preexisting connection to any of the DC characters that popped up or underlying love of the Gotham world. And, in listening to it, I found I much prefer a regular old audiobook to a dramatization. (Though obviously this is what it is because there's no novel to narrate and it's very well done.) My point is that, unlike a lot of readers, I didn't come to this predisposed to love it. I liked the idea of Morpheus a lot and I've read several Gaiman books I enjoyed (though not all of them), but I was a fairly blank slate.
When the story settled into a single narrative arc for a while I enjoyed it quite a lot. I like Morpheus and his crew. I chuckled frequently, even amongst the grimness. But most of the individual, single episodes bored me. And there were more rapes and women being menaced in alleys (and such) that I felt necessary. Though I acknowledge that this was first published in or about 1998, and that seems to have just been the norm of the time. (Still is, honestly, though I think we're at least becoming more aware of it as problematic.)
All in all, I'd probably listen to volume II if I could get it from the library. But I don't think I'd buy it. I do plan to watch the Netflix show though and that's why I listened to this in the first place.
When the story settled into a single narrative arc for a while I enjoyed it quite a lot. I like Morpheus and his crew. I chuckled frequently, even amongst the grimness. But most of the individual, single episodes bored me. And there were more rapes and women being menaced in alleys (and such) that I felt necessary. Though I acknowledge that this was first published in or about 1998, and that seems to have just been the norm of the time. (Still is, honestly, though I think we're at least becoming more aware of it as problematic.)
All in all, I'd probably listen to volume II if I could get it from the library. But I don't think I'd buy it. I do plan to watch the Netflix show though and that's why I listened to this in the first place.
This was phenomenally good! Act I had it all. Mystery, wonder, action, grace, and a variety of characters that kept you on your toes just as much as the story did. The full production audio version, which is the one I listened to for this, really helped with immersion and I found myself blissfully lost in the story more than once. Since this only covered books 1-3 and there is still more to be read I can safely say I will be journeying ahead into The Sandman: Act II.
So, I initially expected this to be something different than what it actually was. It essentially like a bunch of short stories about Sandman. I dont generally like short story collections so I didn't know how I was going to feel.
I ended up liking it a little more than I expected. It did leave a little to be desired, but as far as short story collections go, it was pretty solid.
Would I recommend it?
So, this is an audible original, so you can't listen to it without it. If you already have audible, it's worth a listen as it's free. If you don't, I wouldn't get a subscription just to listen to this, tbh.
I ended up liking it a little more than I expected. It did leave a little to be desired, but as far as short story collections go, it was pretty solid.
Would I recommend it?
So, this is an audible original, so you can't listen to it without it. If you already have audible, it's worth a listen as it's free. If you don't, I wouldn't get a subscription just to listen to this, tbh.