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Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2: Angela

Neil Gaiman and Brian Michael Bendis

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Spinning out of the dramatic conclusion of Age of Ultron, dimensions collide and Heaven's most...

The Living Dead (The Living Dead, #1)

John Joseph Adams

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Ideal for fans of iZombie, Colin Morgan, The Walking Dead, iZombie comics, Resident Evil anthology,...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Monarch of the Glen in Books

Jan 25, 2022

The Monarch of the Glen

Neil Gaiman | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

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The Monarch of the Glen ( American Gods 1.5 )
By Neil Gaiman

He was not sure what he had been looking for. He only knew that he had not found it.

Shadow Moon has been away from America for nearly two years. His nights are broken with dangerous dreams. Sometimes he almost believes he doesn't care if he ever returns home.

In the Highlands of Scotland, where the sky is pale white and it feels as remote as any place can possibly be, the beautiful and the wealthy gather at a grand old house in the glen. And when the strange local doctor offers him work at the party, Shadow is intrigued.

He knows there is no good reason for him to be there.

So what do they want with him?

A brilliant novella catching up with Shadow! Fab little addition to the 1st book!

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The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson

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This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one...

Hypeshooter (3 KP) created a post

Jul 12, 2017

I'm hearing a lot of great things about the new tv series 'American Gods' on Amazon Prime.
I must read the book first!
The fact that it's written by Neil Gaiman makes it just that much more enticing.

'Ex-convict Shadow Moon roams a world he doesn't understand, left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife.

Little does he know his life is about to change after he meets a crafty, charismatic con man named Mr. Wednesday, who offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard.
As their journey begins, Shadow encounters a hidden America where magic is real and fear grows over the ascending power of New Gods like Technology and Media.
In a grand plan to combat the threat, Mr. Wednesday attempts to unite the Old Gods to defend their existence and rebuild the influence that they've lost, leaving Shadow struggling to accept this new world and his place in it.'

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David McK (3425 KP) rated The Long Earth in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Terry Pratchett has long been one of my favourite authors; I don't think I've ever really read any of Stephen Baxter.

I do know that Pratchett has collaborated with other authors before - Neil Gaiman springs immediately to mind (<i>Good Omens</i>) - but Pratchett is better known for his series of Discworld books. Unfortunately, Discworld this ain't: slow moving with not much happening and might as well end with three little words: To Be Continued ...

Truth be told, on reading this it didn't really get much of a Pratchett 'feel' to the story - there was only occassional hints of his touch on the contents. I can't speak for how much it felt like a Baxter work, not having read many of his before, but if this <b>is</b> predominately his feel, and based purely on this one book, he's not an author I would be looking out for.

In short: disappointing.