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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A quirky set of stories. Not too scary, but exploring the dark side. I may have missed the point of some of them, but the last one is a cracker. (  )steevc | Jul 5, 2009 |   Like Tanith Lee, what I think of as Literary Horror. The style tends to be more creepy than horrifying: literary creepy? Ugh.The story in the introduction was especially disturbing. Some of the semi-pornographic bits bothered me-- like the story about the male with a detatchment to his penis. Perhaps just that they were scenes about sex written by a man, from a male point of view, since they were disturbing to me in a way that sex scenes written by women generally aren't. The casual body-function-ness attitude is alien, to someone who first learned about sex from female-written romance novels, anyways. (  )krisiti | Jul 1, 2009 | As always, Gaiman is the master when it comes to magical, creepy sometimes twisted short tales. I think I finished the book on board the flight to Europe and back :P (  )afterthought | Jun 20, 2009 | An eclectic collection of short stories, poems and other writings which are, as usual with Gaiman's writing, always interesting and thought provoking. My favourite stories are Chivalry, The Price, Troll Bridge, The Facts in the Case of the Disappearance of Miss Finch, The Daughter of Owls, Shoggoth's Old Peculiar and Mouse. (  )riverwillow | Jun 6, 2009 | www.snigel.nu | Apr 11, 2009 | 0.026 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0380789027, Mass Market Paperback)This anthology of short stories, and the occasional story poem, is vintage Neil Gaiman: quirky, sometimes very funny, often dark and disturbing. Most have been published before, but are hard to find elsewhere and cover all of Gaiman's writing life. As Gaiman says in his introduction, "most of the stories in this book are about love in some form or another," but not requited love. The stories in Smoke and Mirrors touch on all of Gaiman's themes: sex, death, dreams, and the end of the world. From "Chivalry," about the Holy Grail and where it finally ended up, to "Troll Bridge," a very adult version of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"; from "Bay Wolf," a story poem that melds Beowulf and Baywatch, with interesting results, to "Murder Mysteries," which is about a murder, but also about angels, God's will, and Evil, these stories leave lasting impressions. Fans of Ray Bradbury's short stories and of Gaiman's other works will enjoy this collection. --Nona Vero(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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