Gaiman is Pure Gold

That's about all I need to say, really.  That, and go read his latest book.

Another new addition to the list via the local libraries "Hot Pick" table, David and I devoured this book over the course of a week and managed to return it the following Sunday without any trouble whatsoever.

It is, simply put, a gorgeous fairy tale of a story - but in this work, Gaiman does what he does with most of his books - he manages to weave the fairyness into the modernity with such ease you actually start to SEE the story unfolding before you like you were the main protagonist within it.  Not that he is writing a screenplay, in fact, most of Gaiman's vision is just way too elaborate to ever truly be captured as a series of photographic images - his works require massive canvasses with multiple layers applied with detailed brush work - whole exhibition halls would fill up with image upon image upon image that you would spend days wandering about and even then you wouldn't be able to see them all.

So I've loved Gaiman probably from before I started reading John Constantine comics (many, many years ago for all those non-geeky folk out there who have no idea who John Constantine is).  I think the first actually novel that made me truly fall in love with this Gaiman's work was Coraline - but of course so many of his works have become movies (some of them even quite good considering my earlier comments about how impossible it is to truly do his work justice via this medium) but there is something truly magical about his writing that just makes me want to gush like the fan that I have now become.

Clive Barker once made me gush like this.  I'm hoping he will one day again (soon I am hoping as I hear a new novel is being published as I type) but for the moment, Gaiman is King of the fantastical mixed with the mundane, the bizarre world seeping into the ordinary via the lost collective memories, now long since forgotten, allowing us to briefly glimpses the realms much much larger than any of us currently can imagine ever existing within.

For EU customers, order The Ocean At the End of the Lane from Amazon EU here.
For US customers, order it from Amazon US here.

Or borrow it from your local library, you'll find it on the "Hot Picks" table :-)

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