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4.37 AVERAGE
4.37 AVERAGE
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
the audiobook has additional notes from Neil Geiman that the book doesn't and I loved that about it. it gave it even more character and he does say many wise things in it.
i will just go and make some good fucking art and be happy about it. also read some more good fucking books.
i will just go and make some good fucking art and be happy about it. also read some more good fucking books.
This was great and read by the author, but I would really like to check out the illustrated edition.
Very short. Wished it was longer. Did the audiobook for this and 100000000000000000% recommend over text (although the art is really cool). Neil Gaiman took us to church with this one. I loved it so much. He was so passionate about books, art and why its important to break rules and leave the world more interesting. So many quotes that were inspirational.---had me motivated at like 3am lol
Neil y su filosofía en una entrega rápida, casi express. Mucho de lo que está escrito acá condensa el éxito de su obra y eso ya es súper positivo. Además, leer mientras uno se imagina la voz de Gaiman como narrador es todo un plus a la experiencia.
Inspirational, fun, entertaining, and full of great art.
Truly inspiring and well worth the 5-10 minutes you would need to read and take great joy in!!
While I thought this book was going to be an average-sized adult book, I was pleasantly surprised to see the handwritten text and illustrations on this 100 page book. However, I was very disappointed to see page two show the following:
page 2: a lightened illustration of the back of a blonde woman with a ponytail and rainbow on her shirt, holding an unknown protest sign and the page text says, "I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sign, dramatise and deny.
page 3: there is a darkened illustration of a person in a shemagh scarf wrapped around their head and face and the page text says, "I do not believe that burning, murdering, exploding people, smashing their heads with rocks (to let the bad ideas out), drowning them or even defeating them will work to contain ideas you do not like."
I spent enough time searching whether Neil Gaiman was a known zionist to find out that he was accused of sexual assault recently. NOT the book I thought I was going into. Normally, I wouldn't bring an author's views into my reviews, but he placed the art there...?
Besides the racist stereotypes, I do LOVE the messages about art:
*Books are the way the dead communicate with us.
*Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
*The things I did because I was excited, and wanted to see them exist in reality, have never let me down, and I've never regretted the time I spent on any of them.
*If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.
*The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the only thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.
page 2: a lightened illustration of the back of a blonde woman with a ponytail and rainbow on her shirt, holding an unknown protest sign and the page text says, "I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sign, dramatise and deny.
page 3: there is a darkened illustration of a person in a shemagh scarf wrapped around their head and face and the page text says, "I do not believe that burning, murdering, exploding people, smashing their heads with rocks (to let the bad ideas out), drowning them or even defeating them will work to contain ideas you do not like."
I spent enough time searching whether Neil Gaiman was a known zionist to find out that he was accused of sexual assault recently. NOT the book I thought I was going into. Normally, I wouldn't bring an author's views into my reviews, but he placed the art there...?
Besides the racist stereotypes, I do LOVE the messages about art:
*Books are the way the dead communicate with us.
*Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
*The things I did because I was excited, and wanted to see them exist in reality, have never let me down, and I've never regretted the time I spent on any of them.
*If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.
*The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the only thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.
We should all of us just read this book every day for the rest of our lives. It’s a compact shot of hope and inspiration.