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Literary Love
On my shelf, in my make-shift TO-READ book pile, I have AYE, AND
GOMORRAH by Samuel R. Delany, THE MEZZANINE by Nicholson Baker, MR.
PARADISE by Elmore Leonard, etc. But, dear reader, I haven't been able to get to these or other books
because I'm completely hooked on the graphic novel craze. So, yet again, for the second month in a row, here's a book with
pictures: PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES (SANDMAN BOOK 1) I started reading AMERICAN GODS and found it
really sucky. I think I started another Gaiman book and also threw
it across the room in disgust. And then I started reading about the Sandman
series and gave it a try and I'm completely hooked and begging for
forgiveness for my hastiness with Gaiman's other works....which I'll now
have to re-visit after I finish the Sandman series. No, wait, I did read a book without pictures this
month, THE SANDMAN COMPANION by Hy Bender. Hy gives a quick and dirty description of the
whole Sandman series: "Sandman is about a being who's the
personification of dreams and rules the place where we spend a third of
our lives." In the first book Sandman aka God of Dreams is
trapped by a magician for 70 years, causing havoc among the dreams of
humans....when he escapes he needs to relocate his three tools of power,
and that sends him on a journey, literally to Hell and back. I wonder if anyone's ever going to adapt TROPIC OF
CANCER into a graphic novel? One can only hope. Literary love, |
