Morvenna posted:

Neverwhere has finally got a dvd release so that's great as it was never repeated on TV (sadly). My favourite bit of the Sandman - maybe where Dream and Destiny go looking for Destruction, and also the Cereal convention.

Favourite short story?

There is a short story that he did about Snow White, told in the perspective of the Queen. It was twisted, but really good.

I also like the Christmas card that he wrote telling the 'origion' of Santa.



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oh wow I love Neil's Sandman series and just saw a new published piece by him at the bookstore. when they release a movie of this it's gonna be epic. did he direct mirrormask? i could do my homework on that right now but i'll just assume. yeah, that'll blow my mind absolute.

i'm reading his "anansi boyz" and the first few chapters i was losing patience with. get to the good stuff! i wanna go places! It's about this guy's who's father is the god of rebellion. wonder what god that'll make him.... (?)

KC posted:

My fav is 'American Gods' I strongly recommend 'Good Omens' the book he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett. Really funny book. You have to appreciate British humor, this is brilliantly written.

I also just finished 'Anansi Boy's' on audiobook. I just adore Mr. Gaiman...

agreed! good omens was excellent, and even more amazing if you can appreciate british humor. Aziraphale was my favorite character.

a casual friend of mine gave 'good omens' to me my senior year of high school in my AP english class, and we became almost best friends afterward., great novel, it brings back so many memories.

Sandman rocks! Coraline was pretty creepy, but I love it (I just finished it). Good Omens is fantastic. The characters in that book... well, I don't want to spoil it in case someone hasn't read it, but do check it out. It's hilarious

Picked up The Graveyard Book Wednesday. I haven't gotten very far into the book, but I've enjoyed what I've read so far.

I found Graveyard Book hiding at the very front in a cramped little display box. I wish they had put some over with the New Releases too, would have made it much easier to find.

Want to wait until I finish reading American Gods to pick that one up. I love AG, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and most of the stories in Fragile Things. Gaiman has quickly made his way into my top 5 favorite writers.

freshoil posted:

i just finished the graveyard book.... loved it!! great time of yearr for such a story!!

I didn't like it nearly as much as I like everything else he's written, but it's still a step above most other books out there right now.

American Gods is one of the best books I've ever read. When I first started reading his comics I loved his work in that format. I read Neverwhere and enjoyed it but there was just some small thing lacking from it that I couldn't put my finger on. I wasn't sure if I would enjoy his novels as I did his graphic novel/comic work. But American Gods was brilliant and soothed my fears.

I remember getting an opportunity to meet him and feeling like the largest dweeb on the planet being just another wanna-be write-ee person who wanted to gush at him for his inspiration. But of all of my idols I've met he was the most supportive and sincere to the point that I felt like a guilty secret was in me and I had to say something about Neverwhere. He asked what that small thing I thought was lacking and I said more in depth character development. And we talked for a few more minutes and he was great though I felt like the worst fan for it. He said honesty is important and most important from the people who like you the best or else the artist does not improve himself. I think I quibbered a bit and wondered if I could kidnap him.

Great creator. Next to the artist Brom, he's a great inspiration.

Premiere magazine interview

If you enjoy NIN and Trents work,,,,especially Year Zero and The Slip, this is almost required reading:

SNOW CRASH

The story begins and ends in Los Angeles, which is no longer part of what is left of the United States, during the early 21st century. In this hypothetical future reality the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs.[1] Franchising, individual sovereignty and automobiles reign supreme (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in gated, sovereign housing developments. Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads rather than the competitors', and all mail delivery is by hired courier. The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact business that is, by and large, irrelevant to the booming, dynamic society around them.

Much of the territory ceded by the government has been carved up into sovereign enclaves, each run by its own big business franchise (such as "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong" or the various residential burbclaves (suburban enclaves). This arrangement resembles anarcho-capitalism, a theme Stephenson carries over to his next novel The Diamond Age. Hyperinflation has devalued the dollar to the extent that trillion dollar bills — Ed Meeses — are nearly disregarded and the quadrillion dollar note — the Gipper — is the standard 'small' bill. For physical transactions people resort to alternative, non-hyperinflated currencies such as yen or "Kongbucks" (the official currency of Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong).

The Metaverse, a phrase coined by Stephenson as a successor to the Internet, constitutes Stephenson's vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future. Resembling an MMO, the Metaverse is populated by user controlled avatars as well as system daemons. Although there are public-access Metaverse terminals in Reality, using them carries a social stigma among Metaverse denizens, in part because of the poor visual representations of themselves as low-quality avatars. Status in the Metaverse is a function of two things: access to restricted environments such as the Black Sun, an exclusive Metaverse club, and technical acumen, which is often demonstrated by the sophistication of one's avatar.


Sounds good right? It is. Whats insane is that some of this shit is already happening in the real world, and some of it isnt tooo far off,,fiction?

Don't you love college?

The Sigma Tau Delta convention's featured speaker is Neil Gaiman this year.

[www.englishconvention.org]

the song neil gaiman wrote for the new amanda palmer album is brilliant, check it out, its called 'i google you'

Reading the Sandman series now and love it so far. Just read Seasons of the Mists. American Gods keeps begging me to buy it too, but I get sidetracked by Alan Moore stuff LOL.

Neil Gaiman is great! Read American Gods in German language first, and a lot of the comic books in English language and plan to read American Gods in English. There is a scene, I laughed so hard. I can only describe where it is, because it will be other page than in the English: 1. Part, Chapter 7, around page 5 after Laura killed Mr. Stone and Mr. Wood and Shadow is on the way in the snow with only some snickers or sweets and met the raven, who tells him to go to Kayro, they talk and then Shadow suddenly says to the raven (free translation): "Say "nevermore", and the raven answers: "Fuck you!" In the German version (Seite 173, Hardcover) this is really great.



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