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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I much preferred this story to the first volume. It flowed better, in my mind. What I most enjoyed was the side story that detailed an odd friendship between Dreams and a man who refused to die. Just brilliant. (  ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 |  I much preferred this story to the first volume. It flowed better, in my mind. What I most enjoyed was the side story that detailed an odd friendship between Dreams and a man who refused to die. Just brilliant. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | I much preferred this story to the first volume. It flowed better, in my mind. What I most enjoyed was the side story that detailed an odd friendship between Dreams and a man who refused to die. Just brilliant. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | The Doll's House is the second in Gaiman's Sandman series, after Preludes and Nocturnes, and I must say I am now hooked. I did enjoy the first novel, but I didn't feel that burning need to read the second - the true mark that I am not totally in love with a series. The Doll's House, on the other hand, I was sad to finish, and I'm already planning on heading to Barnes and Noble to pick up the next two graphic novels in the series...probably today. Many times when I read something I deem creepy, it's in a sporadic, silly, or disgusting way, but not this novel. Gaiman sets a creepy tone and maintains it throughout the entire story. The pictures accompanying the text - this is afterall a graphic novel - do nothing the diminish this tone. I never found myself smiling at a ridiculous image. When I did smile, for there is humor, it was not a this-is-funny type of grin; it was more an amused but horrified grimace. The plot involves interweaving stories which simultaneously focus on Dream, one of the Endless and if I'm not mistaken, the main character in the series, and Rose Walker, the focus of this book in the series. Rose, unknowingly and mistakenly, is a dream vortex. The Doll's House is her story. And yet, it is a continuation of Dream's story begun in Preludes and Nocturnes. I find myself wanting to say so much more and yet any type of plot summary, in my mind, is a spoiler. I don't even read the backs of novels before reading the story itself. Suffice it to say, the plot is complex, surreal, and most importantly, interesting. (  ) EclecticEccentric | Sep 18, 2009 | moonsoar | Aug 4, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming. And there's the smaller matter of a few nightmares having escaped. Among them is Gaiman's creepiest creation: the Corinthian, a serial killer with a miniature set of teeth in each eye socket. Because later volumes concentrate so much on human relationships with Gaiman's signature fair for fantasy and mythology, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Sandman series started out as a horror comic. This book grabs you and doesn't let you forget that so easily. --Jim Pascoe
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