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hamsterwoman

Reading roundup

Dec 14, 2007 21:48

And here I take my departure from prime number posting. Farewell, superlative geekery!

63. Jim Butcher, White Night -- *this* is why I like reading Butcher. ( MAJOR SPOILERS )

discworld, kushiel, gaiman, a: esther m. friesner, a: tamora pierce, a: neil gaiman, dresden files, link, taltos, short stories, tithe, a: jim butcher, reading, a: jacqueline carey, a: terry pratchett, a: holly black

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hamsterwoman December 15 2007, 19:14:05 UTC

Ooh, thank you for the link! I mostly get the mythology references, but I know I'm missing tons of stuff on history and pretty much everything that's a comics ref. Awesome!

I'm definitely intending to stick with reading through the whole thing. I'm about halfway through the original 11 volumes, though a bit out of order, unfortunately. Are there other Sandman things beyond that which I should also include -- I've seen references to Endless Nights and spinoffs and stuff, but haven't really been able to figure out how they fit in.

_grayswandir_ December 15 2007, 23:45:32 UTC

Whoo! I'm back just in time for your post on more Sandman books!

In reflection, I think you're right -- Preludes and Nocturnes probably is darker than The Doll's House. I'd forgotten that the thing with Dee happened in Preludes (I always just think of Dream getting his mask back).

And it's so *weird* to think of all this horrible stuff as coming from the same mind as officialgaiman's delightful blog entries

I know! Having read the comics first, for a while I was completely weirded out by how cheerful and... happy Neil Gaiman is in his blog. I've always thought of him as this very dark writer, not quite horror, but very close. Now I don't know what to make of him.

Then again, I write pretty damn dark stuff myself. And then I go and teach third-graders about dolphins all day. :/ I guess that's just how it goes.

Your attitude toward Dream is interesting to me, because I've met a lot of people who's second-favorite character was Dream, after Death, or Delirium, or Desire -- but I don't know that I've ever met anyone for ( ... )

hamsterwoman December 16 2007, 00:15:42 UTC

Whoo! I'm back just in time for your post on more Sandman books!

Heh -- AWESOME timing! :DDD

It's not like I dislike Dream. He is interesting, and I definitely agree on the fact that it's good that he is flawed and petty and kind of an asshole to a lot of people, and condescending to pretty much everyone (except cats). I think my problem is probably that there aren't enough people around to tell him so. Death does, which is fun, and Desire does, though it is pretty ineffectual, and the occasional mortal/creature does -- like Unity, when she dies in Rose's place. But not enough of it, and I guess I just like to see the broody, self-involved characters taken down a peg, occasionally. I think that might be it. And I think I would've liked to see more of the other Endless, too.

"Men of Good Fortune" may well be my favorite as well. The other episode that I really was struck by was "24 Hours", with honorable mentions for the one with the dead schoolboys in Season of Mists and "The Sound of Her Wings". But all those other ones are just ( ... )