[UA] I'm sure it's been talked to death....

[Patrick O'Duffy]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lassi Seppala" <lsseppal at cc.hut.fi>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>

> So, what you're saying is that if I haven't read much Gaiman American
God's is
> a good book to start with? :)
>
> (Ok, I've read Neverwhere... and loved it.)

In that case, you certainly should give American Gods a try.

My opinion of Gaiman is that he's got talent, but not much range; he can
write well, but doesn't move outside a fairly tight area of plots and plot
ideas. I've also become very bored with the British-public-school,
read-a-lot-of-GK-Chesterton prose style he and a lot of other English genre
writers use (Pratchett, Barker et al), and I don't find his work very
emotionally engaging - but hey, that's just me.

And if you like AG, go read his Sandman stuff afterwards - or better yet
Signal to Noise, which I think is certainly his strongest work.

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

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