Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers
A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780755334148 (0755334140)
Publish date: April 5th 2007
Publisher: Headline Review
Pages no: 433
Edition language: English
Series: American Gods (#1)
This took forever to finish over multiple tries, which pretty much sums up how engaged I was with this book. I love Neil Gaiman's stories, but nearly every story in this collection left me thinking either, "okay that was different" or "wtf did I just read?". They mostly felt like the kind of flash f...
As with previous collections of short pieces by Gaiman, I found this extremely variable in quality: Anything referred to as "poetry" is execrable, as are all the "stories" that are extremely short and fail to follow any normal narrative structure. On the other hand, the pieces that follow some kind ...
Please note that I gave this 3.5 stars. I rounded it up to 4 stars on Goodreads.So all in all definitely a mixed bag I am sad to say. I have loved everything else that I have read of Neil Gaiman's though I did only find Good Omens to be okay/good and have no intention of re-reading it. I have alread...
Some real gems here, as you would expect from Gaiman.
Author: Neil Gaiman ASIN: B005GL95T0 Why did I read it? Well, I had listened to two other books by Neil Gaiman: one being a collaboration with Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"; and the other being the 10th anniversary edition of "American Gods", which I truly enjoyed. Given this was a selection of sh...
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