The Sandman (Audible Original #1)
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Torn from his realm, The Sandman - Morpheus, the immortal king of dreams, stories and the...
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This, I believe, was the first of his solo novels that I read.
Circa 2006, not all that long before the movie on which it is based came out.
It was also a, how do we put this?, 'normal' prose novel: not a graphic novel; nor even an illustrated novel (as this is). Indeed, I didn't even know at first that the prose version which I read had previously been issued as an illustrated novel, until I saw it mentioned 'based on the work by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' at the end of the movie.
It then took me approximately a good decade or so before I finally got round to actually reading that version of the work, when I came across it on sale via Comixology. And, I have to say, the illustrations do add a certain Je Ne Sais Quoi to the work: a work which, while the main beats may be familiar to the reader from the movie version, is also very much its own thing and which includes elements not in said movie (Tristran’s wider family, for one, or even the much sadder ending in this)
Coraline
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There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always...
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CBLDF Presents: Liberty
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* Celebrate creative freedom with the industry's top talents in Liberty, a collection benefiting the...
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, with a foreword by Neil Gaiman, is the fourth instalment in...
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Neil Gaiman and Divya Srinivasan
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In a hot, hot country, ringed with mountains on one side and jungle on the other, lives a princess...
I immediately loved her sass from the beginning. However, I felt there were several times throughout the story where Coraline's emotions were lost. I have read Neil Gaiman before, and it is typical that emotions are stark and factual, and not easy for the reader to find empathy.
If it had not been for the existing love of Coraline and her story, I think I would have really struggled to finish this.
David McK (3425 KP) rated Stardust (2007) in Movies
Aug 3, 2019 (Updated Apr 6, 2021)
I also have to say that I found the inclusion of Ricky Gervais to be completely out of place (I find his whole schtick to be incredibly annoying anyway), and Robert De Niro playing against type as Captain Shakespeare also took me quite by surprise the first time I saw it (but good on him for being game enough to do so).
Untitled Harkness
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The spellbinding new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness is set in...