Fragile Things

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This is my second read-through of this book, and it was just as great, and oddly, just as surprising this time around as the last. Quizá esta historia también podría tener algo con el karma, como el embustero termina siendo embaucado. This extraordinary book reveals one of the world’s most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers. The poetry and other short miscellanies within this book were interesting, and some of them actually made sense (unlike poetry in general which usually comes off to me as fluff). The stories were quite good, but very few had anything to do with the idea of a “trigger” that sets the story in motion and reveals the horror lurking in wait.

The Flints of Memory Lane – a real life ghost story has no resolution I'm not happy that a Romani woman is again presented as someone people should be afraid of. Gaiman doesn't make these things the focus, but rather adds them in an almost nonchalant way that has more of an impact because it's NOT the focus.It's been my experience that authors who read their own stories as audiobooks are generally not the best. Keepsakes and Treasures”, “The problem with Susan”– it's an unsettling story about Susan's fate and a witch ends up having sex with a lion (? The Problem of Susan" (5 stars)- Disturbing as anything, but it does give a different perspective as what became of Susan Pevensie and why she turned her back on all things Narnia. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; signed by author to title page; no other markings inscriptions or book plates; looks unread; overall in fine condition.

What’s actually going on here sneaks up on you, but as you start to realize the truth before the narrator, this dramatic irony becomes the driving force for the rest of the story. I like his ability to create characters through broad strokes that seem to shift and change in a different light: both American Gods and The Ocean at the End of the Lane feature interesting protagonists who gradually undergo existential crises as the story unfolds. The four stories not included in the British edition are included in the British edition of Smoke and Mirrors. Sunbird" (4 stars)- I liked the whole thing about this elusive eating club getting their just desserts.I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if he wrote some of them at the same time as working on his magnum-opus; there are certainly parallels. Gaiman is one of the more versatile modern authors and his work is both bizarre, fascinating, reflective and full of literary reference. Here's what I think: Gaiman is successful because he is popular and slightly pushes boundaries in a currently fashionable, ie.

pages Multi-award winning, scarce in signed condition, "Fragile Things" is an exclusive Collector's Edition SIGNED by Neil Gaiman. October in the Chair' has an interesting concept at it's base and ends up being a story within a story, the source of The Graveyard Book.

A Locus Award winning collection of short stories and poetry that includes the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "A Study In Emerald". There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow. Mission of browsing a Gaiman body of work accomplished, and self-flagellation accomplished for the week.