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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Regarding hit-and-miss authors... I gave some Gaiman books a try after reading Good Omens. I liked American Gods OK, but most of what else I tried (including Sandman) had too much of a "this is DEEP and MYSTICAL" vibe that put me off.
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I'm trying really hard to like Gaiman, but I think I'm done with him. I loved loved loved his Fragile Things short story collection, and Coraline was pretty interesting as well. But Neverwhere, Stardust and American Gods (which I'm finishing right now) are all so boring and anticlimactic. I don't remember specifics of why I disliked Neverwhere and Stardust, but American Gods has all these really weird product placements, overly-descriptive short sentences that don't really fit with the rest of the story, and random short stories and jokes that never seem to go anywhere. It's more disjointed than anything. I wish he would stick to short stories, as that seems to be his forte.