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hamsterwoman

Reading roundup

May 14, 2008 21:06

Trip to Oregon was good, but I'm too tired and braindead to talk about it at the moment. So, instead, reading roundup, which was all written up prior to today:

28. Sandman #11: Endless Nights (by Neil Gaiman) -- I hadn't realized this was written at such a remove after the original series. I enjoyed some of the chapters more than others, as ( Read more... )

a: barbara hambly, a: diana wynne jones, a: patricia cornwell, gaiman, a: libba bray, a: neil gaiman, reading, a: seena b. frost

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lookfar May 15 2008, 10:35:15 UTC

Hey, I didn't know there were more Chrestomanci books! We read the first three to the kids. Must investigate.

hamsterwoman May 15 2008, 16:27:23 UTC

I wonder if yo've read the same ones I had -- Witch Week, Charmed Life, and The Lives of Christopher Chant. Although it looks like The Magicians of Caprona might have been chronologically earlier than at least one of those? (I haven't read it, and have to admit it doesn't sound quite as interesting as the others, although it's hard to guess how much I will enjoy a DWJ book just from the blurb.

Oh, and I know the Howl movie was based on DWJ's book, but I've neither read it nor seen the movie. Not opposed to it or anything, just haven't naturally come across them, and haven't gone seeking either out because Miazake's style doesn't really seem to be my thing and I've found that, though I've enjoyed all of DWJ's books I've read, I really like the Chrestomanci ones best. Well, and maybe Deep Secret.

lookfar May 15 2008, 10:35:53 UTC

And you know that DWJ wrote Howl's Moving Castle, right? That Miazake made into a movie?

_grayswandir_ May 23 2008, 19:15:52 UTC

Okay, so, just so you know, the reason I totally failed to reply to this post isn't because I was ignoring you, but rather because I've actually never read Endless Nights. I read all of the Sandman comics (er, except for Brief Lives, apparently) when I was in high school, which was before Endless Nights came out... and although I know I heard about it, for some reason I never got around to reading it, and eventually forgot it existed, so that when I finally went and bought all the books, I stopped at The Wake, and didn't even think to look for Endless Nights. So I don't even have a copy to read.

Anyway, I shall have to buy it and then come back and read this post. D'oh!

hamsterwoman May 23 2008, 22:55:01 UTC

Heh, no worries on my account :)

But, yeah, will be most interested to hear what you think of it when you read it. One thing I can say for it is that it seems to have prettier art than many of the other volumes (except maybe The Wake, which was very pretty in its own right. And it has a chapter for Destiny (albeit a short one). And the chapter on Despair has some very interesting vignettes of human tragedy. Anyway, I liked it quite a bit.