The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
It’s Neil, ’nuff said. No? OK, a sweet, funny and often sad book about a baby named Nobody who grows up in a graveyard, raised by the kindly dead. Beautiful and otherworldly as only Gaiman can write.
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere – Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry
This Neil Gaiman approved graphic novel of Neverwhere was excellent. Slight variations in the story line and an occasional missing character don’t affect the overall story arc. The novel has gorgeous art and the depictions of Door, de Carabas and Hunter are particularly good. Any fan of the original book will enjoy this, though I’d recommend neophytes read the book first if you are not familiar with the story.
Neil Gaiman in Madison
I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub and Gary Wolfe speak at the Wisconsin Book Festival last weekend. Hot damn, Neil Gaiman rocks in so many ways. The official title of the talk was something on the lines of “The Evolution of Horror and Fantasy: Genre Fiction and ‘The New Wave Fabulists.” Straub and Wolfe immediately launched into a schpiel on how all the authors hate the bizarre genre title of “New Wave Fabulists”. Wolfe mentioned “When I think of waves, I think of something nasty washed up on the shore.” Straub went on in this vein for a good 20 minutes before saying “I said we should be...
Read MoreAnansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
I am shocked and apologetic that I forgot to review this last month. Perhaps I forgot because I read it at the very beginning of the month – or perhaps my mind was going “wub wub wub” from having seen Gaiman/McKeen’s movie MirrorMask. SEE IT IF YOU CAN! Regardless…
I should state for the record that Gaiman’s American Gods is one of the 10 best books I have read. Rich and dense and intense and wonderful. Just right in every way. Anansi Boys is set in the same universe, though the only character from American Gods to appear is Mr. Nancy (the spider god) whose death starts the series of events covered in the books. As I started the book, I found...