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Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman
Another excellent piece of fiction from Gaiman, who is my favorite children's/young adult author out there right now (not counting Rowling who is done with that genre at least for the time being). This one is quite short, and it ended up fitting nicely with the Sea of Trolls trilogy which I had just read as well. Norse mythology has come into our own culture, often without us knowing it, so it is interesting to notice parallels with things like Lord of the Rings for example.
For anyone who has read the Graveyard Book, did you find it a bit odd that the name of the main character boy is Odd in this book and was Bod in the GB? What is the next protagonist going to be named, Cod?
I also listened to this one on audiobook, and Gaiman could seriously read audiobooks for his primary living. Other times that I have listened to authors reading their own work it has been absolutely dreadful (for example Anne Lamott--just too burnt out on drugs to be a good reader despite her writing being so good).
Anyway, I highly recommend this one, and I won't give away any of the story here.
For anyone who has read the Graveyard Book, did you find it a bit odd that the name of the main character boy is Odd in this book and was Bod in the GB? What is the next protagonist going to be named, Cod?
I also listened to this one on audiobook, and Gaiman could seriously read audiobooks for his primary living. Other times that I have listened to authors reading their own work it has been absolutely dreadful (for example Anne Lamott--just too burnt out on drugs to be a good reader despite her writing being so good).
Anyway, I highly recommend this one, and I won't give away any of the story here.