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really in love with neil gaiman's writing style

recommend some books from him that you liked

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>> No.12358474

>>12358392
I enjoyed Stardust. American Gods and Anansi Boys were good.

>> No.12358482

Sandman. All of them. Could easily say he elevated comics to another medium to be used (very well) as a plane of higher thought.

>> No.12358486

>>12358392
plebbit brigade? We hate Gayman here.

>> No.12358493

>>12358392
Not only is he a shit author, but he's a jew. Never post here again.

>> No.12358512

>>12358392
I really enjoyed "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Perhaps thanks to the fact that 98% of the novel is a man recalling his childhood, the entire book was drenched in a nostalgic feeling that very easily resonates with the reader; I'd describe it as a pair of rose tinted glasses that cover very horrific events throughout the story. That's what I remember the most about it.

>> No.12358519

Sandman, Stardust, Ocean at the End of the Lane are all good.Sandman being relatively dark and "adult" in the sense that people get raped and disemboweled in it and there are shakespeare references.

The other two are more straightforward fantasies. Ocean sustains a very beautiful nostalgiac mood throughout. The line "I spent my time in places adults would never think to go." is stuck in my head. Definitely underrated
relative to his other books.

Conversely, while people recommend me American Gods a lot, I thought it was a clumsy and infantile attempt to recapture the blend of fairy fetish and brutal violence Sandman had. Embarrassing attempt at writing for a wider demographic.

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>>12358392
I also have Coraline.
I think A Study in Emerald is his best short story, American Gods his best novel and The Sandman his magnum opus. He doesn't have a single bad book, Stardust was the weakest but I didn't dislike it.

>> No.12358682

>>12358625
American Gods felt very empty to me. I might have been too young and too much of a foreigner to really get into it, but I found it like a bit of a drag. While I did really enjoy that "on the road" feel it had, and specially the cozier times Shadow spent at that village, the rest is kind of blurry in my mind.
Coraline is fantastic, though; a great read for a rainy afternoon.

>> No.12358696

>>12358392
>Neil Gay man

>> No.12358703

>>12358696
Is that the right pronunciation?

>> No.12358784

>>12358703
It is in my mind

>> No.12358820

I only find his short stories truly good. He's still a nice filler to read while on the train or to kill some time.
Smoke and Mirrors has good stuff. I can't remember which one has How to Talk to Girls at Parties, that one is great.

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>>12358486
>We

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>>12358849
>I like Neil Gayman! He's my favorite!

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>>12359020
>L-LEAVE MY TASTE ALONE.

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>>12359039
>C-calling him reddit didn't work? I'll call him a crybaby

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>>12358392
Of his books i have only read Good Omens (which he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett) and American Gods.
>The first part of Good Omens had some hilarious moments, to the point where i burned through a lot of it quickly, even though i'm a generally slow reader, the rest of it i didn't find as good, but the relationship between Crowley and Aziraphale was still enjoyable.
>American Gods was not nearly as funny, though, plus i stopped halfway through and had to come back a few months later (to be fair, i was also pretty busy at the time), i found that the actual plot of the story didn't much interest me, but his discriptions of the protagonist Shadow's inner thoughts and day to day life to be strangely fascinating, Gaiman managed to make the guy feel like a real person with his own thoughts and opinions (though i don't doubt he shares many of these thoughts and opinions with Gaiman himself).
Overall, i think his writing can be a bit pretentious (pic related is an exaggeration of what it feels like to read his books), especially with the whole "What if mythological figures/abstract concepts existed in the real world and looked like 80s british rock stars" angle he keeps coming back to, however he is what i would call a good writer, he does not deserve to be as deified as he is, but neither do a lot of "best of all time" writers, so...

>> No.12360576

>>12358625
Good Omens is by far his best book.