John Smith wrote:Just finished Reading "American Gods" I didn't like it.
John Smith wrote:Just finished Reading "American Gods" I didn't like it.
The Garbage Man wrote:John Smith wrote:Just finished Reading "American Gods" I didn't like it.
But... but... gods!
In America!
Doin' stuff!
minstrel wrote:Oh, I don't know. The title just refers to American Gods. Maybe they're not doin' stuff. Maybe they're just sitting around drinking. Maybe that's why he didn't like it.
Ribbons wrote:"Doin' stuff" makes me think of "Invader Zim".
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:John Smith wrote:Just finished Reading "American Gods" I didn't like it.
that's a first.
really, everyone I know who's read it has adored it.
what didn't you like?
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:I just finished the graphic novel of Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Before that was Anansi Boys. Thats what I do. i read an author to death. It is my funny little way...
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:I just finished the graphic novel of Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Before that was Anansi Boys. Thats what I do. i read an author to death.
Neil Gaiman wrote:
The Birthday Thing
As you may have deduced, it's the blog's 7th birthday today. On February the 9th 2001, I started writing this thing. And now, 1,071,213 words later, it is still going. (Until the wind changes, as Mary Poppins said.)
One thing we've decided to do, as a small celebratory birthday thing is, initially for a month, make a book of mine available online, free, gratis and for nothing.
Which book, though...? Ah, that's up to you.
What I want you to do is think -- not about which of the books below is your favourite, but if you were giving one away to a friend who had never read anything of mine, what would it be? Where would you want them to start?
Click below on the cover of the book you'd like to see out there, online, for free. We'll keep the voting up for a week, and then announce (and Harper Collins will post, to be read) the winning book.
DennisMM wrote:Wish they'd do something less known, like Smoke and Mirrors. More people need to read the short fiction, especially the early short fiction.
Spifftacular SquirrelGirl wrote:DennisMM wrote:Wish they'd do something less known, like Smoke and Mirrors. More people need to read the short fiction, especially the early short fiction.
LOVE Smoke and Mirrors. Still break out and read a few short stories and poems out of it every once in a while.
Nicholas Was... is a must during the holidays.
A lad discovers that he can walk between alternate Earths—and is swept up in a war between them in this fast-paced, compulsively readable tale. Joey gets lost in his own house, but when he steps into a patch of fog and finds himself in a world where he died, a trillion Earths lie open to him—arranged in a vast arc, with an empire of science-based planes at one end and a realm where magic rules at the other. Recruited into an army of anything-but-identical Joeys gathered from many of these worlds and charged with maintaining the balance of power, Joey picks up companions both human and non as he travels the multidimensional In Between that links the sprawling "Altiverse." In this first of what could and should be many episodes, Joey finishes his basic training by doing battle with melodramatically evil magic workers Lord Dogknife and Lady Indigo. Vivid, well-imagined settings and characters compensate for weak links in the internal logic of this rousing sf/fantasy hybrid.
Nachokoolaid wrote:Just finished THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman. If you're a Gaiman fan, as I suppose many of you are, you'll like this. It's probably the most like his novel NEVERWHERE. It gave me the same sort of bizarre, confused, mystic feeling that Neverwhere gave me. Not his best, but solid. I could see how older children and teens might really like it. It seems like the advertising seems to think so too. Everything says, "From the author of CORALINE" instead of mentioning AMERICAN GODS or NEVERWHERE or any of his other adult novels.
And now I'm reading ABSOLUTE SANDMAN vol. 3. It's not as good as VOL. 1 or 2, but it's damn good.
Maui wrote:Nachokoolaid wrote:Just finished THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman. If you're a Gaiman fan, as I suppose many of you are, you'll like this. It's probably the most like his novel NEVERWHERE. It gave me the same sort of bizarre, confused, mystic feeling that Neverwhere gave me. Not his best, but solid. I could see how older children and teens might really like it. It seems like the advertising seems to think so too. Everything says, "From the author of CORALINE" instead of mentioning AMERICAN GODS or NEVERWHERE or any of his other adult novels.
And now I'm reading ABSOLUTE SANDMAN vol. 3. It's not as good as VOL. 1 or 2, but it's damn good.
Curious, is Gaiman being original at all with this story, or does it read too much like The Jungle Book?
Nachokoolaid wrote:Is it blasphemous to say I haven't read the Jungle Book?
But if you like Gaiman at all, I'd pick it up. It's sort of episodic in a way, looking back on it, almost as if it was written in serial form or something.
Maui wrote:Nachokoolaid wrote:Is it blasphemous to say I haven't read the Jungle Book?
But if you like Gaiman at all, I'd pick it up. It's sort of episodic in a way, looking back on it, almost as if it was written in serial form or something.
No it's cool, I still haven't read LOTR.![]()
I'll check it out. I did miss some children's classics growing up - which is why I like to visit the young readers section, check out the books I missed that everyone so dearly loved reading. I did pick up Coraline a few months back, which I enjoyed.
Maui wrote:Have you read "American Gods"? I keep hearing good things about this book too.
Nachokoolaid wrote:A quick question. Do you have any interest in mythologies of various cultures
Bloo wrote:re: AMERICAN GODS what a great book, I bought it on the weekend before 9/11 and didn't know what was going on because I was so involved in the book I didn't have the TV or radio on and was clueless until about 8 at night. I need to buy a new copy because that well rerad dogeared copy was loaned to a co-worker who left with it
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:re: AMERICAN GODS what a great book, I bought it on the weekend before 9/11 and didn't know what was going on because I was so involved in the book I didn't have the TV or radio on and was clueless until about 8 at night. I need to buy a new copy because that well rerad dogeared copy was loaned to a co-worker who left with it
Oooh! More good feedback on "American Gods". Thanks Bloo!
Nacho, forgot to answer your other question, I haven't read "Neverwhere" perhaps I should start with that first as a precursor to "American Gods".
Maui wrote:Nacho, forgot to answer your other question, I haven't read "Neverwhere" perhaps I should start with that first as a precursor to "American Gods".
The Todd wrote:Maui wrote:Nacho, forgot to answer your other question, I haven't read "Neverwhere" perhaps I should start with that first as a precursor to "American Gods".
Gaiman-FIVE!!!!!
You should also check out the Neverwhere tele-movie that the Beeb put out with A&E on DVD.
Drew Taylor wrote:We recently chatted with John Cameron Mitchell about his forthcoming, absolutely dynamite drama “Rabbit Hole,” which is picking up some serious awards season steam (more on that soon). However, the conversation veered into what busy Mitchell has on deck and he updated us on a couple of projects that have been developing recently.
If you’ve seen “Rabbit Hole,” you’ll know that a comic book plays an intriguing part in the film. What you may not know is that it was created by independent writer-artist Dash Shaw (and if you haven’t picked up his mammoth 2008 tome “Bottomless Belly Button,” do yourself a favor and go now. There’s probably a Borders coupon in your mailbox just waiting to be applied.) After Mitchell complimented us on being “the first journalist I’ve talked to who knows him,” he filled us in on an upcoming collaboration between the two.
“I’m actually producing his animated feature now,” Mitchell said. When asked if it was based on either “Bottomless Belly Button” or “BodyWorld,” an online comic that was collected as a book this spring, Mitchell emphatically said, “No.”
“It’s not based on anything. It’s original. It’s called ‘The Ruined Cast.’ It’s going to be 2D. It’s going to be weird, surreal… Well you know his style. I keep comparing it to Philip K. Dick meets ‘The Simpsons.’ And it’s brilliant. He’s gone through all the Sundance labs this year. And I’m producing it with the producer of ‘Shortbus.’ We’re just finishing the script and we’re about to show it to investors, probably at Sundance.”
Mitchell then volunteered details about another project he’s been developing. “I’m also working on something with Neil Gaiman. It’s an adaptation of a short story called ‘How to Talk to Girls At Parties.’ It’s a sort of British, punk-era story that involves an alien girl on her spring break. I’m going to supervise an adaptation with a British writer and eventually direct.”
You can read the short story, which was nominated for all sorts of awards when it was released in 2006, at Neil Gaiman’s website. If “Rabbit Hole” proved anything it is Mitchell’s amazing versatility and range and seeing him dip into the world of Lovecraftian science fiction, wrapped around a period comedy set in 1970s England has us positively giddy. Certainly, plenty of exciting stuff on the way from a director who refuses to be pinned down to any one style.
And in case you missed it, the ever busy Mitchell recently a directed a spot for the latest Lady Dior campaign starring Marion Cotillard. Check it out.
justcheckin wrote:I am reading Neverwhere...
Nachokoolaid wrote:justcheckin wrote:I am reading Neverwhere...
Good choice. Is this the first time you've read it?
Update: DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns has tweeted a status update on the project. Johns tweets that Gaiman is on board and that development on the series continues. It’s possible that the development simply now continues without Kripke’s participation. Here’s Johns’ tweet:Correction to world: The Sandman is AWAKE!Psyched to be working with @neilhimself on developing one of the greatest series ever!
Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:'Monty Python' Writer to Adapt Neil Gaiman Novel for Prime Focus Services Group
Neil Gaiman wrote:In case anyone missed it, Terry Jones is adapting GOOD OMENS into a 4 part television series. Details at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/m ... eil-168792
This is a good thing, and why Terry Pratchett and I were drinking champagne last Septemberish.
I saw a bunch of press about whether there is or isn't a Sandman TV series: as far as I know, nobody has actually optioned SANDMAN as a TV series from DC Comics, who own it. Eric Kripke (of Supernatural fame) pitched his approach to DC and to me last year, and we liked it and we liked him, but it didn't feel quite right at that point, so we passed.
I think that this year the people at DC Comics (and me) will talk to a lot of people who want to make a Sandman TV series, and if we find the perfect person with the perfect way of treating the material, it'll happen. And otherwise it won't.
(Which reminds me: Matt Cheney is still blogging his way through Sandman. He's just reached A Game of You.)
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