Neil Gaiman works

Talk about books (or others) written by Neil Gaiman.

I'm currently halfway through American Gods and got to say, something about it is very fascinating. Disturbing at times, but it's all good. Are Neverewhere and Anansi Boys any good?

As far as I know, the only Neil Gaiman work I've experienced is his episode of Doctor Who. It was one of the high points of a mostly disappointing season, though.

American Gods is fucking fantastic.

Other than that, sad to say I've never read any Gaiman.

I've loved every Gaiman book I've read. Neverwhere, American Gods, Anansi Boys and Stardust are all fantastic in very different ways.

I haven't read nearly as much Gaiman as I would like. But I agree, American Gods is frickin' fantastic. One of the best books I've read, at least recently.

I also want to recommend The Sandman Book of Dreams. It's not written by Gaiman (though he is one of the editors), but is an anthology of other writers writing short stories more or less closely based on various facets of the Sandman series. I'm barely familiar with Sandman, and I still enjoyed a good many of the stories.

Anansi Boys is my all time favorite book. It has everything that makes American Gods great, and it's funny, to boot.

I'd recommend Neverwhere, personally. Very different tone and style, but still extremely compelling and well-written.

I'm around a third of the way through the Sandman, that's very good. Unfortunately the last volume I bought wound up unread and MIA in my vast collection of books/comics/graphic novels. Haven't managed to dig it out and I'm not going to skip it or buy it twice.

Other than that American Gods is my favourite thing he's written. Anasi Boys is excellent although it's a completly different tone of book. I found Neverwhere almost a not as good version of Gods, but it's okay. Couldn't get into Stardust though.

I also like his two short story collections. Fragile Things is paticularly good, it's got a story that is sort of a sequel to Gods among other things. Smoke and Mirrors is almost a little too sex focused (but not quite) in places for me, but even if you're really put off by that sort of thing there are still a good number of clean stories, there's a lot of really great stuff in there anyway.

I think American Gods is my favorite of his, with Anansi Boys a close second. I do like Neverwhere, but I also think some of his others are better. It doesn't help that while I think Neverwhere is one of the earlier ones, there's several books (i.e. China Mieville's King Rat and The Nightside series) which have basically the same premise. I liked Stardust, but prefer the movie.

I've also read some of his short stories, and really liked some of them- A Study in Emerald in particular.

I recently saw my school library had a selection of several of the Sandman books. Overall I liked them (that "Cereal Convention" one was freaky), but they weren't really my cup of tea. Think I prefer Gaiman as a humorist to Gaiman as a horror story writer (not that he's a bad horror story writer, quite the opposite).

edited 21st Oct '11 4:55:02 PM by Jordan

You know, for some reason I'm picturing Shadow's appearance as this guy, even though NG himself said he would more look like the Rock. :/

Yeah, I never pictured Shadow as a pretty-boy. Hard to be intimidating looking like that. Also, he never turned into some sort of demon-thing with a phoenix for a willy.

edited 21st Oct '11 2:16:44 AM by AndrewGPaul

I agree, I was actually surprised by how funny Gaiman can be when he puts his mind to it. I laughed several times when reading American Gods, despite the actual storyline hardly being light-hearted.

And of course, there's Good Omens.

I really enjoyed Coraline. American Gods was alright, but never went beyond that.

Neil Gaiman! My favourite writer :D

My first Gaiman book was The Graveyard Book, which I got as a birthday present. I really liked it, and it's probably my favourite book of his.

I read Coraline when I was a little kid and somehow never saw anything strange or horrifying about ripping out eyes and sewing buttons in. I get why adults find it scary, though.

Out of everything he's written, I actually found his short story Babycakes to be scariest. It gave me shivers.

I Cthulhu is pretty entertaining and free.

I started reading Gaiman through Good Omens, which I picked up due to the recommendation of a friend, and because I loved Pterry's work. After that I read Smoke and Mirrors, but I think American Gods is what really hooked me. I love the way Gaiman can make bizarre and often obscure concepts work so well. He's also such a nice and personable guy, from what I've seen of his videos, journal and Twitter.

Apart from the ones mentioned above, I've also read Coraline, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book and some of The Sandman. He also writes a damn good Doctor Who episode.

That's a good one. Reminds me of the equally hilarious Shoggoth's Old Particular (think that's the title).

I think the first Gaiman novel I've read was Good Omens. While it was really great, most of the writing feels more like Terry Pratchett's than Gaiman's. American Gods was just awesome. I also finished The Graveyard Book recently, which was also pretty good.

I didn't particularly like Neverwhere, for some reason...

edited 24th Oct '11 1:53:42 AM by LiberatedLiberater

The Price is quite possibly my favorite short story ever.

American Gods is utterly fantastic, and I liked what I read of Good Omens, though I have to actually finish it at some point. He's got some good short works in Fragile Things, though that Narnia story is one of the most repulsive things I've ever read. On the comics front, Sandman may start out as a horror comic, but it evolves rapidly from about the second volume or so onwards. It's definitely a must read, but I doubt I'll ever go back and read it again (Sandman: The Dream Hunters is a great short story though, with art by Yoshitaka Amano to boot!). Aside from that, Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader (everything that's great about Batman in two issues) and Superman and Green Lantern: The Green Flame are also must reads.

The Narnia story, really? Not that I'm saying it was pleasant but there are worse things out there, including a few stories from Smoke and Mirrors. Then again I have just gone from reading early Ian Mc Ewan straight into From Hell. My mind might need cleansing.

Forgot about The Graveyard book, that was enjoyable. Good Omens is superb, but for some reason I tend to associate it more with pterry.

I need to read more of Gaiman's comics, I'll probably give Black Orchid a try sometime. Couldn't stand 1603, I think that put me off his comics for a while. The Eternals was decent but nothing too special. Whatever Happend to the Caped Crusader, however, was a lot of fun and heartwarming too, it definately beats Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tommorow in my opinion.

Currently at 2/3 of the book. Man, the story's pacing started to increase, just the way I like it. Hmm, during his stay with Ibis, Shadow fucked a Cat Girl in his dream, right?

A Cat Girl Goddess. But yes.

I've read The Graveyard Book, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, the first four Sandman books and Good Omens, although I agree with the person who said that it was a lot more like Pratchett's style than Gaiman's.

I haven't read Stardust, but I liked the film.

Stardust was great. I liked the book more than the film though.