Gaiman

[Ashen]

So I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan, and just need to *squee* for a moment over the excitement in Gaiman related news, so I'm making this thread for anything Gaiman related, books, movies, whatever..

So not only is there forward movement with the HBO show for "American Gods" but... *drum roll* Neverwhere is being redone!!

**For any who haven't read it Neverwhere is a really good story of London 'Below'.. the BBC Mini series is alright but kinda really crappy BBC (don't get me wrong some BBC is good but they made the big beast at the end a cow with a buffalo mask on (come on!!)) So I'm really excited for this new series.

And better yet there is a new book out this summer, after many years Gaiman finally put out another adult novel. "Ocean at the End of the Lane"

--"It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.

His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang."

[wolfvanzandt]

Hey, I thing a cow with a buffalo mask would be scary.....

I like everything I've ever read by Gaiman. The new one sounds sorta Lovecraftian but very Gaimanian.

[Ashen]

Did you ever read The Graveyard Book or Odd and the Frost Giants? Children's novels but very good and twisted just enough to be twisted but still ok for little ones. xD

[wolfvanzandt]

I've read reviews that interested me but I haven't gotten around to reading the books yet. I'm just finishing up The Werewolf of Paris which has very much surprised me. I didn't know that werewolf stories of this quality existed. And next, I'll be "reading" (listening to, actually) a Gaiman recommendation, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. I used to get Gaiman's graohic novels and I've read American Gods (it almost makes me regret that I dropped TV) and Anansi Boys. I've also read several of his short stories in various anthologies.

I'm sorta having a 6 degrees of separation moment. Gregory Reece, who interviewed me for his book Creatures of the Night, was interviewed by Alex Wright, the executive editor of his publisher, who commented on some parallels between Reece and Gaiman, who is one of his (Wright's) much admired authors. So, through some really twisted convolutions, my name and Gaiman's has been popping up together recently.