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Originally Posted by queentess
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.
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Thanks for the heads up. Good Omens was amazing, perhaps because I really like Pratchett as well. The Graveyard Book was all right. Anansi Boys had some enjoyable parts. American Gods...was both fairly dark in tone and had a strange ending...it felt like a bad rewrite/copy of Norse mythology. I will probably now consider borrowing Neverwhere and Stardust from the library before buying.
Gaiman's short stories are pretty good, though.