gremlins4444 's review for:

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

5.0

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I think it's important to remember that this book was originally published as a longform comic with Charles Vess, in 1998- in 4 volumes; you shouldn't really read it without the illustration, and perhaps the understanding thats it's It's an intentionally old school homage to Lord Dunsany's "the king of Elfland's Daughter" (with Charles Vess doing a rather passable job embellishing it as it might have been in published in the 1920s); he uses a very similar wall in the English countryside setting & even some of the same words- "over the fields we know" though that's repeated nearly 700 times in Dunsany's work & only twice I think in Stardust...

I've read it 5 or 6 times over my life; initially without the illustration. The recording of Gaiman reading it is very good though, I will say that.