Two Plays for Voices

I love "Snow, Glass, Apples" and "Murder Mysteries" in their written forms, but oh, not in this audio form. Audio books in general can be a bit hit or miss for me, and this multiple-voice, music added format was a big, big miss. I felt like I was back college attending an overly dramatic experimental performance.

I'd actually read the 2nd story somewhere. It was a good story. However, this audio production was amazing! The sound design was as important as the text itself; they worked beautifully together. They're both intense stories - each starts with screaming for good reason. You can borrow it from the library, as I'll (reluctantly) return the copy I borrowed later today.

Neil Gaiman's Snow Glass Apples was a fantastically chilling retelling of the Snow White story. Murder Mysteries was not as good as Snow Glass Apples, but was still a short, enjoyable story involving angels, murder, and Lucifer.

Meh, not so much. Both stories were, indeed, creepy. Snow Glass Apples put an interesting twist on a familiar story (along the lines of Gregory MacGuire, but more effectively and with about 30,000 fewer words). I must not have understood the Murder Mysteries one - I thought I was doing fine until the ending, which confused me. The stories weren't terrible, maybe just not my cup of tea.

This is an audio recording of two plays for voices written by Neil Gaiman, adapted (by Gaiman himself) from his short stories Snow Glass Apples and Murder Mysteries. Each CD has its own case within the main packaging, and I put labels with the same BCID on both. I hope that doesn't confuse anyone.

Snow Glass Apples is a creepy retelling of a very familiar story. I don't want to say which one and spoil the surprise. It's unquestionably disturbing, but very well done.

Murder Mysteries was well acted but, to me at least, not as well written. I'm still unclear about the ending, and I wonder if that was because I didn't hear something important along the way. I'm still just a budding Gaiman fan, but I hope to read both these stories in their show more original form at some point in the future. show less

Snow Glass Apple was just another retelling of Snow White from a different viewpoint. It was okay, but I'm tired of retellings. Wicked is the only one I've read that managed to pull itself above the genre and create its own life.

The second play, Murder Mysteries, was a tale about angels in the Silver City prior to the creation of the universe. And murder. It was a promising concept, but wasn't wonderfully written.

I'm going to read Stardust. If I don't like that then I'm done with Gaiman.

These are fantastic stories, made even better by the excellent narration. Very enjoyable--and very not for kids!