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Old 07-08-2012, 02:16 PM
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Yeah, totally. I thought the movie was fine, but my friend who is kind of religious about Gaiman thought that the movie was an abomination. There are quite a few differences between the book and the movie. If you like Gaiman's other work, you'll like Stardust IMO. And yeah, Croup and Vandemar are the best
I'm also a big Gaiman fan - his best work IMO was the Sandman series, just beyond brilliant with amazing characters. Has anyone seen Mirrormask? I know some who found it boring but I loved it.
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I actually borrowed a big compilation book from the library. Two inches thick, the first Sandman compilation Haven't started reading it yet though
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I actually borrowed a big compilation book from the library. Two inches thick, the first Sandman compilation Haven't started reading it yet though
You should also pick up the two Death mini-series (The High Cost of Living and The Time of Your Life).
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yeah I am also re-reading The Wheel of Time for something like the 5th time. Currently on The Great Hunt.

Also Promethea by Alan Moore

Walking Dead is so old. Kirkmans been killing his characters & pulling his cliffhangers off for years - and I still love it.

Like the show less. Doesn't matter. Breaking Bad season 5 starts soon!
WOT is great! And it only gets better each time you re-read it and pick up things you missed the first few times... sad RJ isn't around to finsih it though But The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern RJ's Conan The Barbarian stuff was pretty good too.

Another great author I always make time to go back and re-read ever few years is Charles Bukowski. He's one of my favourite writers. He wrote a number of great novels including Post Office, Women, Hollywood and published a bunch of poetry too. It's not for everyone but it's damn good stuff if you have the stomach for it.

And like Man_not_Puck mentioned, anything by Alan Moore is generally really, really good. Especially if you're a comic book fan or have interest in what that medium can achieve when it's at the top of it's form. "Watchmen" gets talked about a lot but Moore has done a ton of other great stuff that's worth a look including From Hell, Swamp Thing, Top 10, Tom Strong, V For Vendetta etc. (but if it's been adapted into a movie you're probably better of reading the source material! Ha).
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To all Neil Gaiman fans, some awesome news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GndnR7oSYYk
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Reading the "Luckiest Man" by Jonathan Eig, a book on the life of Lou Gehrig..
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Just finished SuperFreakonomics. Pretty interesting if you're into that sort of stuff.
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I'm looking forward to reading Wind Through the Keyhole as well soon. Though after I'm done with Newsflesh, I plan on getting my hands on 11/22/63, which has just come out in paperback over here.
I have finished Newsflesh, and I have found out there is a prequel called Countdown (leading up to The Rising), but it's only available as a ebook in US. Supposed to be available in the UK at some point, though not sure if it's limited to Kindle users or can be downloaded as a PDF etc.

Have just started Stephen King's 11/22/63 - intrigued.
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Just started reading the game of thrones series... pretty good so far.
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Reading the "Luckiest Man" by Jonathan Eig, a book on the life of Lou Gehrig..
One of the best biographies I have ever read. Quite a remarkable (and sad) story.

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"Predicable Irrationality." Interesting look at faulty decision-making processes we humans possess.

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