Neil Gaiman

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Whatever. Is it fun being right

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Yes!

 

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[Bouncy Castle]

Oh, I've missed your eye rolls!

 

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[Who's Wee Dug]

I'm sitting on the fence for that one, the blurb did not draw me in enough to order a copy. :-|

 

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I held back on ordering a copy, then I saw a signed slipcased for 30 quid and had to cos the yank version was £80 so I was saving money really.

 

[Tonyblack]

I held back on ordering a copy, then I saw a signed slipcased for 30 quid and had to cos the yank version was £80 so I was saving money really.

You were practically getting it for free.

 

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Someday i'll learn

 

[Catch-up]

I was really surprised that I was able to put a hold on it at the library! Had to double check it after seeing here that it's not out until June. I thought I could only hold a book once one of the libraries in the network actually had it. Turns out I can do it while they're waiting to acquire it!

 

[Bouncy Castle]

EW.com


The Sandman is returning to Vertigo comics under the influence of writer Neil Gaiman.

Shelly Bond, executive editor of the imprint of DC Entertainment, said Monday that Gaiman is working with artist J.H. Williams III to tell stories of Morpheus’ world before he was captured. Titled The Sandman: Overture, the new series will appear bi-monthly starting Oct. 30 in comic shops and digitally, too.

Gaiman last penned stories in the realm of the Endless more than a decade ago. His telling of Sandman has sold more than 7 million copies in nine languages by combining epic story with mythology in a comic medium.

DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson called the return to the “lush, evocative world” Gaiman created with Sandman “a literary event.”

 

[Ghost]

I do have a signed slipcased edition of his upcoming book preordered so it better be bloody good.

I didn't know he had a new one coming out! Can't wait to read it.

Got my copy ordered for the signing in a couple of months
as well as acquiring a first edition of good omens for just £3.99
that I'm hoping will be signed as well

 

[pip]

Finished it , Brilliant is an understatement .
Well worth the hype.

Blog review-

Ocean at the End of the Lane

 

[Quatermass]

I've just borrowed The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Here's hoping...

 

[Quatermass]

Okay, read The Ocean at the End of the Lane. And I loved it. A bit harrowing at times (bathtub scene, anyone?), but great, one of Gaiman's best ones.

But could someone tell me something? TV Tropes claims that there are several references to Doctor Who. But I must've missed them, given my fast reading style. Did anyone else notice these references, and if so, what were they?

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Dunno about DW, but this is from Wiki:

In February 2013 Focus Features has acquired the rights of the novel to make into a feature film.

Tom Hanks will produce the film and Joe Wright will direct.

 

[Quatermass]

Neil Gaiman's in the George RR Martin's Revenge vid that's in the eponymous thread.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

New good Omens cover!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Omens-Neil ... 772&sr=1-2

 

[Ghost]

nice design I spent ages looking for a reversible cover copy for the signing but I had to settle with accidentally buying a first edition instead

 

[michelanCello]

New good Omens cover!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Omens-Neil ... 772&sr=1-2

Nice!

I bumped into a first Hungarian edition in a second hand bookshop, was too expensive and I wouldn't want to read it in Hungarian anyway, but it was beautiful! The pages were black and it was all rather sinister...

Edit: it was this one, sorry for the size, couldn't find a bigger one

Edit2: the new edition has this cover