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Originally Posted by cearbhallain
As to American Gods, I keep reading Gaiman because I want to read another one of *those*, but so far (and my Sandman loving husband would probably disagree here) none of his other books really compare.
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Neil Gaiman doesn't seem to do 'series'. Every book is different. There's a 2006 interview with him (
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_10_010057.php) that addresses this.
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That’s the weird thing about not doing the same stuff every time. With every book, you piss off a bunch of people who like a specific thing and are hoping for that specific thing again.
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I’m sure there are people out there who still wish you were doing Sandman.
Oh sure. And there are people who wish I’d done nothing but Neverwhere novels. And then there are the ones who wish that I’d done nothing but American Gods. I sort of worried a bit when Anansi Boys was being sold as if it was the American Gods sequel. And I kept walking around going (cough, grumble) it’s, uh, not. The publisher said, “Yeah, but American Gods was a New York Times bestseller, and we have to push that.” Yeah, but it’s a different book. I didn’t want people with expectations for more of the same. If you want more of the same with American Gods, there’s a Shadow story in Fragile Things.
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