![]() ![]() ![]() Regarding his story "Pages From a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky," Gaiman (who should have nothing left to say after that title) blithely name-drops the fact that "This was written for my friend Tori Amos's Scarlet's Walk tour book several years ago, and it made me extremely happy when it was picked up for a "best-of-the-year" anthology." It made me extremely unhappy to discover that the story, like many in the book, was made up of Gaimanesque ideas and moods, not stories. It succeeds primarily because Gaiman himself wrote it. ![]() This glowing introduction, which is longer than many of the book's stories, attempts to shed light on the copious smaller texts written by the famous author of the Sandman comic books. Each story and poem in this 350-odd page collection of odds and ends is discussed - what makes it a good story or poem, what the history is behind its creation, and why it is so particularly Gaimanesque. By Marty Demarest & r & & r & Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman & r & The book Fragile Things begins with a lengthy tribute to Neil Gaiman's writing. ![]()
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