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| Original Title: | The Sandman: Book of Dreams |
| ISBN: | 0380817705 (ISBN13: 9780380817702) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Sandman |
| Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Anthology/Collection (1997) |
Neil Gaiman
Paperback | Pages: 402 pages Rating: 4.29 | 8222 Users | 172 Reviews
Define Of Books The Sandman: Book of Dreams (The Sandman)
| Title | : | The Sandman: Book of Dreams (The Sandman) |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 402 pages |
| Published | : | January 8th 2002 by HarperTorch (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Short Stories. Fiction. Comics. Anthologies. Horror |
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There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits -- along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers -- the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare -- inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep. Surrender to him now. A stunning collection of visions, wonders, horrors, hallucinations, and revelations from Clive Barker, Barbara Hambly, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, Nancy A. Collins, and sixteen other incomparable dreamers -- inspired by the groundbreaking, bestselling graphic novel phenomenon by Neil Gaiman.Rating Of Books The Sandman: Book of Dreams (The Sandman)
Ratings: 4.29 From 8222 Users | 172 ReviewsCritique Of Books The Sandman: Book of Dreams (The Sandman)
this collection of short stories based about and around neil gaiman's characters from his 'sandman' graphic novel series is actually pretty good. some better than other but after coming kind of late into the game with the sandman stuff i devoured everything that had anything to do with the series. i couldn't let it go yet. i was please and slightly relieved that i wasn't the only one. these stories only gave proff to how inspiring sandman was. everyone wanted a crack at gaiman's storytellingI have been a fan of Neil Gaiman since the 90s, and so when I saw this anthology of short stories based on his characters, I picked it up used. It took me a long time to read, as most of the stories were not ones that kept me on the edge of my seat. It also had been some time since I had read Sandman, and though I once had been familiar with the seven siblings Dream, Death, Desire, Despair, Destruction, Delirium, and Destiny, remembering them took about half the book.Anthologies are hard to
Didn't finish this one; am not counting this as being read this year for that reason.I like the Sandman universe very well, I just wasn't feeling it too powerfully under other people's direction. Might be my problem, rather than a problem with the stories directly as I didn't read them all. Oh well, at least there are some graphic novels I haven't read in the series.
You already know in your heart whether you want to read this collection or not. But if you're in a rush, and you aren't sure if other authors are capable of capturing that Gaiman magic, try these:Each Damp Thing by Barbara HamblyThe Witch's Heart by Delia Shermanand Stopp't-Clock Yard by Susanna Clarke (which is arguably one of the greatest Sandman stories ever written)
As with (almost) every anthology, this collection is somehow unbalanced. I basically didn't care for any of the stories from the first half of the book and I've enjoyed a fair bit of the second half - so I guess there's a balance in a sense, although this is entirely subjective.The stories are of course connected by theme (sometimes very loosely, but the majority of them feature Morpheus or his siblings) and they're all within the same genre, which was to be expected, but to be honest, I'd
Like most anthologies, this is a mixed bag, i.e. some stories are better than others. However, even the best don't measure up to the standards of the Sandman comics, so I don't recommend it; at the very least, it's a book to borrow rather than buy.My favourite story is "Splatter" (by Will Shetterly), set during The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists. It works well on its own merits, but it doesn't quite fit with the source material. (view spoiler)[In the original story, Nimrod tells all the others
This is basically fan fiction. I stopped reading as soon as I had another book in my hand. I love the Endless, but stories about the Endless are best in graphic novel form, and written by Neil Gaiman.
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