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The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Vertical Stripes:
What, Spook County or whatever? I haven't read it. In fact I hadn't read any of his stuff until I picked up Idoru from a used book store because he'd dedicated it to Claire and I thought it would be funny to get Claire to sign it for all of like five seconds. And then I realized it wouldn't be funny.
Anyway she told me I had to read Virtual Light first so I went back to the used book store and got that and I'm reading it right now. It's not bad.
BUT BACK TO NEIL GAIMAN.
I could've met him if I'd volunteered for the Granville Island writer's festival ... but his panel was during a class that it would have been unwise for me to miss. GPA unfortunately > Neil Gaiman.
Jackie Blue:
Those are good Gibson books but the real gems in his career are Mona Lisa Overdrive and All Tomorrow's Parties. MLO is the last in the Sprawl Trilogy but it stands alone very well, only a couple bits of info from the previous books are particularly relevant and they're reiterated in MLO anyhow.
ATP is the last book in the trilogy that begins with Virtual Light and Idoru. Each book in that trilogy is exponentially better than the one before it. VL is decent, Idoru is great, ATP is ZOMG AWESOME.
CamusCanDo:
I am very jealous of both for knowing people who know people. Fuck you guys man.
Aminal:
new gaiman = FUCKIN' A
Now that I've graduated college I'm really looking forward to reading for pleasure again. I used to have to keep books away or I'd read until I fell over from dehydration, or on the other end of the spectrum nearly wet myself because I was too preoccupied to use the bathroom.
Also, Gridgm,
Nodaisho:
In regards to Gibson: I haven't finished Virtual light yet, I checked it out from the library twice, but always with other books, and I could never finish it in time. I don't like it as much as Neuromancer, Count Zero, MLO, or Idoru, though. It isn't bad, but it is slow reading, as always, and considering I had just finished reading count zero when I was reading virtual light, I really noticed the difference.
I agree with Camus.
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