Neil Gaiman- proclaimed to be one of our great masters within the fantasy genre. The author of:
-Stardust (now a successful movie)
-Stardust (now a successful movie)
-Coraline (made into an animated picture- in fact the very first piece of writing I read by Gaiman was Coraline in a graphic novel format. Creeped me out big time, what's with all those button eyes?!)
And now the Sandman series. I'd heard big things about this saga. So when i spotted it at my library- i thought i'd hit the jackpot! It features various short stories, all written by Gaiman- illustrated by different artists (all very impressive within their own rights).
Now i don't know whether I'm being completely stupid- but i really didn't get the point of most of them. At the end of almost every story i remember thinking (okay, well... what? what was the message, the meaning?). I feel a little bit like the one person sitting in the audience of a stand-up comedian who misses every punchline.
Some stories (such as the one pictured above- Desire's story) albeit a little sexy- was admittedly a brilliant piece of story-telling. Maybe i should not have chosen this book to be my very first in the Sandman series. Or maybe i should just retire myself to the fact that everyone's favourite author isn't mine.
Just some thoughts.
:)
The first piece of well written and thought out post.
ReplyDeletehmm, that made me sound like a teacher *giggles*..What I meant is that I generally do not find comic books interesting and as soon as I came across the picture I had this slight shiver creep up my back. So after I pushed away the person tickling my back, I read it and discovered that I really enjoyed what you said. So much so that I thought maybe I should have a look at these books, because actually now you've made me quite curious, and maybe I could add my opinion on here.... hmm, really well written - im obviously not surprised at all :)
Lol! (what do you mean by 'the first piece of well written...'?- my other pieces aren't well written?!)
ReplyDeleteSure, give the comic a spin! Maybe you can make some sense of it. :)