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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
It's weird when what was once your favourite writer you now can barely stand to read. There is no heart & soul to his writing, seriously questionable women (and thus views of women), and way too much of that extra white supremacy thing goths do. He has some cool ideas sometimes. About it.
Didn't love all the stories but some like babycakes, we can get them for you wholesale, changes, murder mysteries and snow glass apples will probably stay with me for a while. Disturbing
My favourites from this collection:
The Price
The Sweeper of Dreams
Murder Mysteries - the story within this short story has got to be my favourite angel adaptations I've ever read - 5 stars for that alone.
4.5 stars in total. Brilliant
The Price
The Sweeper of Dreams
Murder Mysteries - the story within this short story has got to be my favourite angel adaptations I've ever read - 5 stars for that alone.
4.5 stars in total. Brilliant
This was great - I enjoyed the mixture of prose and poetry. Lots of fun stories in this one.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fun and creepy. the cthulu stories were my favorite.
adventurous
dark
This collection of short stories was the perfect way to introduce me to the works of Neil Gaiman. I loved his style of writing. I was afraid it might be a little pretentious and too high-brow for me, but it was quite the opposite. It was simple, enjoyable and highly imaginative.
I mean, it's pretty obvious that in a book of short stories, one will not love ALL of them, but I really enjoyed more than half of the stories and the only problem I had with the remaining ones were that they went completely over my head. (I'll probably, hopefully, get them after a few more readings.)
What amazed me was the sheer variety of themes I got to read. There were stories and poems about cats, vampires, holy grails, fairytale characters, writers, little children, trolls, foxes and so much more. I felt that some stories were just waiting to be made into novels. I don’t know why, but I really want the story ‘Changes’ to be co-written by Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. I would probably be one of the first people to go and buy that book. By the way, ‘Babycakes’ is going to haunt me forever.
I really loved how the author sort of gave the background and inspiration behind each story in the introduction (which incidentally, contained an extra short story). It was interesting to follow his crazy train of thought.
Note to self: Look up Lisa Snellings’ sculptures.
I mean, it's pretty obvious that in a book of short stories, one will not love ALL of them, but I really enjoyed more than half of the stories and the only problem I had with the remaining ones were that they went completely over my head. (I'll probably, hopefully, get them after a few more readings.)
What amazed me was the sheer variety of themes I got to read. There were stories and poems about cats, vampires, holy grails, fairytale characters, writers, little children, trolls, foxes and so much more. I felt that some stories were just waiting to be made into novels. I don’t know why, but I really want the story ‘Changes’ to be co-written by Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. I would probably be one of the first people to go and buy that book. By the way, ‘Babycakes’ is going to haunt me forever.
I really loved how the author sort of gave the background and inspiration behind each story in the introduction (which incidentally, contained an extra short story). It was interesting to follow his crazy train of thought.
Note to self: Look up Lisa Snellings’ sculptures.
Out of Gaiman's three short fiction collections, this takes the second spot for me, ahead of fragile things, but behind trigger warnings. The stories I really enjoyed (wedding present, chivalry, snow glass apples and murder mysteries were clustered at the end and the beginning of the book, which made the middle a bit of a slog to get through, especially as I was reading other things at the same time. I certainly will be returning to this, as I hone my own short stories into something publishable.