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Collection of Neil Gaiman's miscellaneous writings, many from early in his career. A couple of the stories were great, most were fine, but I found the "poems" basically unreadable. (At one point he flat out says that it's just a prose story with random line breaks added.) Also egregious use of Papyrus font in the edition I read.
My favorite story was fairly atypical for Gaiman: a scifi piece about a cancer-curing pill that lets people change gender at will. There was also one about a schoolboy ob ...more
My favorite story was fairly atypical for Gaiman: a scifi piece about a cancer-curing pill that lets people change gender at will. There was also one about a schoolboy ob ...more
Feb 05, 2008
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One of my co-worker's loaned me this short story collection after I loaned him Wicked-- due to the fact that this book contained 1 or 2 short stories that were also "twisted" versions of familiar childhood stories. It was the first time I had read anything by Gaiman and I really enjoyed the stories in this collection.
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