Neil Gaiman

[fireworks19]

Alright! I've yet to see ANYONE post ANYTHING about him! I'm actually almost offended!

Neil Gaiman is a great fantasy writer. He has done novels (3 that I can recall, of the top...no, 4), lots of short stories, and even a 'graphic novel'. (comic books...;))

Stardust is about a guy who wants to marry the prettiest girl in his town. She tells him to bring her a star they saw fall from the sky. The guy (Tristan) has to travel into Faerie to find it, and he's not the only one looking. Its a great book.

Good Omens was written with Terry Brooks...(I think). Its their version of Armegeddon(SPELLING?!). Very very funny.

Neverworld is really hard to explain, but its a really interesting story about a completely different world underneath London.

American Gods is his latest. I haven't gotten to read it yet.

You can find some short stories of his in Smoke and Mirrors.

The graphic novel he wrote (the famous one) is The Sandman. They are a really interesting collection about..well...the Sandman. He's called Dream. Kind of like the Greek god, Morpheus, which he is called by some.

He also did a remake of the Black Orchid comic and worked a little with Todd McFarlane on Spawn.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? If not, go find one of the things I just said so I have someone to talk to about Gaiman!!

[Mathron]

I actually just recently got into his stuff. I had read Good Omens a while back, but not really realized who he was. However, I recently just read Neverwhere (exactly story), and all of Sandman (excellent comic). His stuff is simply great, and I definitely am planning on reading more of it. :)

[fireworks19]

Finally! A reply! Oh glorious day!

Who was your favorite character in the Sandman? I like Delirium. I spell bad. Sappurt puhblik ejakashun.

[Elwen]

I love Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Pratchett is a great fantasy comedian on his own and with Gaiman writing as well the book is great. I have also read Neverwhere and Stardust.

Infact i can't listen to Bohemian Rhapsody any more and keep a straight face, or go around the M25 or even watch the news.

[fireworks19]

oooh....I like the name..Elwen...Purdy. I actually made that my name for something awhile back...

Prachett? That's what I thought, if I was wrong with the other choice. =) I get confused.

[Mathron]

Yeah, I first read Good Omens because of Pratchett, too.

As for Sandman, my favorite character was also Delirium, with Death a close second.

[fireworks19]

YOu had better have a reason other than 'Huh Huh, death is cool' for liking Death. She was also my second, but only because she quotes Mary Poppins in the first book. =D

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

I love the Sandman books! SO much! Two years ago at my school everyone was reading them, and I started, and now they are some of my favorite books (recently displaced by LotR and other books by Tolkien. . .)
My favorite characters, well, I can't pick just one, I liked Death, (I like her being so cheerful all the time. And other reasons, but I could go on forever) Dream and Delirium, but also Matthew, the Raven. I also love the books about Death. Anyone read Books of Magic (?) It's really good, too. A lot like Harry Potter, but much, much darker. Like most of Gaiman's writing :) It's really good, also a graphic novel.
I also really liked Good Omens. It's my favorite Terry Pratchett book, helped along by the fact that Neil Gaiman also wrote it :) I read it on the plane on my way back from Costa Rica-er, actually I got it in the Chicago airport, but I was coming home from Costa Rica. I couldn't find a bookstore in the Miami airport! :)
I've read Smoke and Mirrors and I really enjoyed it. That last story was really creepy. . .(I think it was the last one. The Snow White story.)
Haven't read American Gods yet, but I mean to. Okay, I've been going on and on here. Oh well. I happen to be a big fan. :) And there are so many smileys in this post! :)

[Lelondul]

A friend recommended me read Neverwhere a couple years ago now. Still stands out in my mind as a great modern fantasy novel. You're right Fireworks, it is a hard book to describe, but was beautifully done and very vibrant and detailed - just how I like 'em :)

I've been meaning to pick up some of his other stuff too, but you know how that goes...

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

Okay, I just read American Gods. . .wow. *takes a deep breath*

That was an amazing book. Has anyone else read it? It would be nice to start a discussion here. . .good book to discuss, if you ask me :)

Well, anyone?

[Carafin]

I haven't read his newes t book ( I didn't even know it was out till I saw it in the store) but I have read Neverwhere and Stardust and I really enjoyed them both ( unfortunately that was like 1 or 2 years ago, I'll have to pick them up again soon and the new one too:)

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

I still have to find Neverwhere and Stardust. But I will! :)

[Tanoliel]

YAY! Neil Gaiman ROCKS! :)
I read all of Sandman (worship. worship.) and the beginnings of both American Gods and Good Omens. I had to give both back to the library. Pooh. :(
I plan to get them out again soon, however, once I pay off my horrendously large library fine (try $17.50! And no, I haven't a clue how it got so big).
I like Death too...she's very pragmatic. I like Dream a lot, but he's so sulky all the time...still, he is tres cool.
I took an online test once--Which Sandman Character Are You?--and I turned out to be Death. Nifty, hey what? If I can find it I'll post it on here.
-tano

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

Find it! Post it! Find this personality test, you must! :)

I'll bet I'm Dream. . .:rolleyes:

Oh, and I can lend you Good Omens.

[Tanoliel]

okay, y'all...here's the test.
Which Endless Are You? (http://users.drew.edu/jleto/endless/)
take the test, and then tell me who you were.
I'm Death! :D

-tano

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

woohoo! I'm Dream! I knew I would be! :D

Yep, that's me...really angsty and sulky and. . .I'm stopping there. :rolleyes: :)

[Tanoliel]

heehee...i'm delight now. okay, well, not really, cause i went in specifically going for her. so nevermind. it's funt o figure out which endless each question is, though some are v. obvious...
-tano

[Carafin]

I took the test!!(I've never read the books but oh well!!) I came out as Death (is that a good thing??)

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

Originally posted by Carafin
I took the test!!(I've never read the books but oh well!!) I came out as Death (is that a good thing??)

Well, do you want to be a cheerful person who wears all black and occasionally purple and has goldfish and wears an ankh and has an eye of horus design on her eye and likes Mary Poppins and lines like 'Peachy Keen?' Then yes, you want to be Death :D

On the other hand, if you'd prefer to be gloomy, there are about four other Endless that would be more suitable :)

[Willow Oran]

I only know about this stuff from Tano's babbling but I took the test and came out as Delirium.

[Mirahzi]

Originally posted by Eruviel Greenleaf


Well, do you want to be a cheerful person who wears all black and occasionally purple and has goldfish and wears an ankh and has an eye of horus design on her eye and likes Mary Poppins and lines like 'Peachy Keen?' Then yes, you want to be Death :D

On the other hand, if you'd prefer to be gloomy, there are about four other Endless that would be more suitable :)

That seems kinda inverted.. don't ya think? :rolleyes:
I came out as Desire.. :confused:
I think I'd rather be Death ;)

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

Hey, Desire is pretty cool! I like Desire, anyway :D Even though it caused...nevermind, shutting up NOW! ;)

[Mirahzi]

Damn.. almost bilked it out of you... (is bilked a word, heard it somewhere)

- Just checked.. it is.

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

You can't bilk (yay! new word!) anything out of me-especially plot spoilers :D

[Tanoliel]

gerp. i don't like desire. s/he/it be nasty things. doesn't give me chocolate. :D
hmmm..."bilk." I like it. Bilk...bilk...bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk, bilk! :D
-tano

[Carafin]

Hmmm now I'm going to have to read those books (although I doubt our library has them, it's so small:mad: )anyway I looked up bilk and while the definition isn't very good (2. defraud ;cheat; decive) it sounds cool and would make a vey good insult:D (something like "loquacious fop" :) ) its also a good word for scrabble:D

[Tanoliel]

er...onto the topic of the thread...:rolleyes:

HEY! I just finished Good Omens...it's REALLY GREAT! Anyone else here read it at all?
-tano

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

Have a nice doomsday :D

I love that book. It makes me happy. Ovenmitts and holy water. :)

I like Desire even if it isn't very nice. Hey, it would cool to live in a heart! :D

[Carafin]

yes, um, sorry about that :) well I looked in our (new) library and they don't have anything by Neil Gaimen:mad: our old library did
are there any sites with summaries of the sandman (or any of his books?I wouldn't think so:( ) *sighs*

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

How sad they don't have anything by Neil Gaiman (who's works I worship if you haven't noticed by now :))

You could try doing a search, I think he has a website. I'm sure there is. . .

[Human#3.141592653]

<A HREF="http://www.users.drew.edu/jleto/endless/"><IMG SRC="http://www.users.drew.edu/jleto/endless/desire.jpg" ALT="I'm Desire!" BORDER="0"><BR><font face="courier new" size="2"><a href="http://www.users.drew.edu/jleto/endless/">Which Member of the Endless Are <i>You</i>?</a></font></a>

hee hee, just sonds liek me don't it, Tano???:D

[Human#3.141592653]

oops! That didn't work well, did it?
I'm Desire, and also Delrium. Hee hee!

My favorites always will be The Sandman, because...well, it's that **mn good.

[osszie]

Neil Gaiman?? :D

American Gods just left me staggered.................truly brilliant

Stardust..........heck that book just go down in history as THE classic modern fairy tale!!!!!!

Sleep well all..................and I'll see yer's in the dreamland;)

[Eruviel Greenleaf]

New Neil Gaiman book!!!

I believe in 5 days...maybe less, his latest book, Coraline is coming out. I'm REALLY excited...it looks very, very good. It's supposed to be a childrens book, but I say read it anyway. Supposedly adults find it to be really scary.

Yay! :D

here's the website about it:
Coraline (http://www.mousecircus.com/flash/coraline.html)