Hi everyone
The last novel I read in 2016 is Neil Gaiman’s
short stories collection Fragile Things.
I got it as a gift from my husband and it has 433 pages.
You can find all my Neil Gaiman reviews here.
I got it as a gift from my husband and it has 433 pages.
You can find all my Neil Gaiman reviews here.
I didn't really enjoy this collection.
Some of the stories are different and
interesting enough and Gaiman does write imaginative stories but there were a lot I just didn’t get or I couldn’t understand what’s so special about them.
The writing was ok but I had a hard time reading more then a few stories a day. That wasn’t a problem because life was very busy but it’s not something I’m used to; I tend to read an hour or two hours at a time in the evening.
Some stories felt like Gaiman was trying too hard to make them different or interesting by adding sexual elements, gratuitous violence or gore and those stories felt wrong to me. He just added those elements and they made the stories less about the plot and more about those aspects.
The writing was ok but I had a hard time reading more then a few stories a day. That wasn’t a problem because life was very busy but it’s not something I’m used to; I tend to read an hour or two hours at a time in the evening.
Some stories felt like Gaiman was trying too hard to make them different or interesting by adding sexual elements, gratuitous violence or gore and those stories felt wrong to me. He just added those elements and they made the stories less about the plot and more about those aspects.
All in all I had a mixed experience. I liked a few of the stories but I was disappointed one way or another with the
majority of them.
Happy reading!
Helena
Helena
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