Sandman: Endless Nights
Oct. 7th, 2003 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gementThe art is incredible. The stories are very good, and very good Sandman.
I can see the reviewer's point (I believe it was on CNN.com, it's linked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
officialgaiman) who said he didn't like Endless Nights quite as much because he's been keeping up with Gaiman's novel-writing career and the man has written stories at this point that far surpass these vignettes in power and sweep. (I'm completely paraphrasing. I believe the original quote was along the lines of, "Come on, Neil. I've seen you give us better than this. Don't hold back.")
If I step back and remember that these are not only short stories, but short stories with very tight text restrictions, they look a lot better. No fair comparing a short to a novel and asking it to offer as much subtlety or scope.
The portraits of Despair were chilling, I'll be quoting Del for a month, Desire's chapter was suggestive porn at its best, and Destruction was... wow-sexy-yum. There were beautiful art shots of all of them.
Worth my money in hard back. Probably will end up chained to my shelf.
On rereading this is a pretty bipolar review. I've come straight off of rereading several of his novels, so it's hard to switch back into Sandman gear. Once I did, very tasty stuff.
I can see the reviewer's point (I believe it was on CNN.com, it's linked from
officialgaiman) who said he didn't like Endless Nights quite as much because he's been keeping up with Gaiman's novel-writing career and the man has written stories at this point that far surpass these vignettes in power and sweep. (I'm completely paraphrasing. I believe the original quote was along the lines of, "Come on, Neil. I've seen you give us better than this. Don't hold back.")If I step back and remember that these are not only short stories, but short stories with very tight text restrictions, they look a lot better. No fair comparing a short to a novel and asking it to offer as much subtlety or scope.
The portraits of Despair were chilling, I'll be quoting Del for a month, Desire's chapter was suggestive porn at its best, and Destruction was... wow-sexy-yum. There were beautiful art shots of all of them.
Worth my money in hard back. Probably will end up chained to my shelf.
On rereading this is a pretty bipolar review. I've come straight off of rereading several of his novels, so it's hard to switch back into Sandman gear. Once I did, very tasty stuff.
