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 enjoyed this collection but I can’t say I
loved it.
Some of the stories are different and
interesting enough and Gaiman does write imaginative stories but there were a
few I just didn’t get or I couldn’t understand what’s so special about them.
The writing is lovely and I enjoy his style 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 by adding sexual elements, gratuitous violence or gore and those stories felt a bit wrong to me. He just added and added those elements and they made the stories less about the plot and more about those aspects.
The writing is lovely and I enjoy his style 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 by adding sexual elements, gratuitous violence or gore and those stories felt a bit wrong to me. He just added and 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
quite 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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