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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Okay, fine. You win. This volume is almost entirely a side quest to the main narrative, but holy bananas does it work. I have complained about that before, about how I love Dream and the family and their interactions and whenever we get... not that— I find my interest to drift. That is not true here. If there is one troupe I am all about it is story about stories and stories within stories. This has both and it does it them really well, in my opinion. It also ties it into the main narrative in a creative way that makes the final section rather emotional. After eight volumes, I still have no idea what to expect from this series but I here for it. On to The Kindly Ones!
Worlds' End is the 8th volume in The Sandman series.
It's about stories that people tell inside of a story. Ha!
If that seems confusing to you, then just read the volume.
Neil Gaiman brings all the weird in this volume of The Sandman and I was all about it.
After a car crash, our traveling pair (Brent & Charlene) find themselves at an inn called The Inn of the Worlds' End. No joke.
When you end up at this inn, all types of magical, regular, and strange folk will be there.
They're all staying safe from a reality storm that's brewing outside. They sit around, drink a lot of ale, stay safe from the storm, and tell stories.
Yeah, I want to find myself at an inn like this at one point in my life. What a cool concept!
That's it for the plot but it was enough. The stories that are told at the inn are worth reading this volume.
And that ending. I can't wait to find out more about that!
There's not a lot of The Endless in this volume, but I didn’t mind. I liked being in Neil Gaiman's brain for a bit and just enjoying the strange people and creatures that he's created while they tell their stories.
It's about stories that people tell inside of a story. Ha!
If that seems confusing to you, then just read the volume.
Neil Gaiman brings all the weird in this volume of The Sandman and I was all about it.
After a car crash, our traveling pair (Brent & Charlene) find themselves at an inn called The Inn of the Worlds' End. No joke.
When you end up at this inn, all types of magical, regular, and strange folk will be there.
They're all staying safe from a reality storm that's brewing outside. They sit around, drink a lot of ale, stay safe from the storm, and tell stories.
Yeah, I want to find myself at an inn like this at one point in my life. What a cool concept!
That's it for the plot but it was enough. The stories that are told at the inn are worth reading this volume.
And that ending. I can't wait to find out more about that!
There's not a lot of The Endless in this volume, but I didn’t mind. I liked being in Neil Gaiman's brain for a bit and just enjoying the strange people and creatures that he's created while they tell their stories.
No congruent stories with the Endless really. Kind if boring.
This one isn’t terrible or anything but out of the Sandman series, it’s my least favorite so far. There wasn’t enough of the endless for me.
Felt like a random collection of shorter stories, but each was very unique. Some I wished lasted longer. Looking forward to seeing how this collection concludes!
Este volumen es casi perfecto, a excepción del arte. No es que esté mal, de hecho The Sandman tiende a mostrar un arte muy diferente a lo que uno está acostumbrado (por la época, por el estilo de los artistas o por lo que sea), es simplemente que algo falta en ese aspecto. En cuanto a la trama me parece maravillosa la forma en que se cuentan las historias dentro de una taberna, historias con personajes que a su vez narran otras historias, como si se tratara de una muñeca rusa que se mete más y más profundamente en las ficciones. Las últimas páginas del libro son tan poderosas que lo dejan a uno con ese sentimiento de nostalgia que ataca cuando acaba de terminar algo muy bueno. Además, la incertidumbre de saber algo que no se dice acá genera un sentimiento paralelo de agobio y temor que pocos libros me han causado. Excelente.
I'm reading The Sandman for the first time, i love Gaiman from his other books, i knew that his work on sandman is considered the best of Gaiman, and now i can see why. i loved all the book that i've read until now... But this one is truly amazing, really the best.stories into stories, and i felt like i really was in the inn at the worlds' end.
p.s. while i was reading i thought the inn was a little like the castle from "Il castello dei destini incrociati" , written by Calvino ( "The castle of crossed destinies")
p.s. while i was reading i thought the inn was a little like the castle from "Il castello dei destini incrociati" , written by Calvino ( "The castle of crossed destinies")