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2nd Bingo!

Good Omens: The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

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In preparation for the upcoming new Amazon series, I decided to reread “Good Omens.” It’s probably been about a decade since I picked this up the first time, and while there were many parts that I thoroughly re-enjoyed, there were other parts that let me down. And not because it’s bad, but just because we’re getting farther and farther away from many of the contemporary nuances and details that were hilarious in the 2000s. Sadly, as time marches on, much of the ironic nuance in the jokes and satire don’t make sense simply because we’re missing the contemporary background. Published […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

A wonderfully childlike story

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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This book is straight-up magical. I’ve read it before, I think right around the time I first got a kindle, and I’ve seen (and loved) the movie and yet somehow I let this story fall by the wayside. But the audiobook fell into my lap and it seemed like a perfect Bingo choice and I am so grateful for all of these elements that brought Coraline back into my life. Neil Gaiman has brought this little girl to life in spectacular fashion. The book is written in third person narration and everything in Coraline’s head is so delightfully child-like. Her reasonings, […]

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9/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:104 |

The best way to exist in a story

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

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I got the okay on this one on Twitter but mods please let me know if it doesn’t count. I didn’t listen to the audiobook of Neverwhere but rather the BBC’s radio play adaptation – the one with McAvoy and Dormer? It’s basically the greatest. So the gist of Neverwhere is: everyman Richard Mayhew accidentally stumbles into London Below, a society made up of the people London Above forgot, with danger at every turn. He is sucked into a mission to protect the Lady Door from assassins and betrayal and the things that lurk in the dark. The story is like 3% of […]

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8/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:98 |

CBR Bingo: White Whale

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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I feel like I am going to catch some grief for having Good Omens as my White Whale but I purchased it in November of last year and started it three times before finally completing the whole thing while on the beach last week. Unfortunately I was also drinking rum cocktails while I read so I may be a little foggy on the complete story. Good Omens is quite the literary achievement; the two authors, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, have a seamless flow and you never get the sense that there is more than one cook in the kitchen. I can see why […]

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8/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:91 |

“All things are reflections of other things.”

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman

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This is a short story by Neil Gaiman.  A dwarf comes seeking a man to act as a guide to a certain cave in the Black Mountains on the Misty Isle, a cave that is said to be full of gold for the taking.  But that gold comes with a price. This is a story of travel and darkness and truth.   Going the audiobook route is always a different experience than reading something, especially when the text is supplemented by illustrations, as this one is.  In exchange for not getting to experience the illustrations with this work, we have […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Oh, the humanity!

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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#CBR10Bingo Cannonballer Says This book was a gift from cannonballer Malin in the 2017 book exchange and was also recently recommended by Lowercasesee in Quick Questions with a Cannonballer.  For my first review of CBR10, I read Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather and loved it for its wit, humor and wisdom. Malin had sent the book as part of the CBR9 book exchange, and she included Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the package. Let me just say this: I am a fan of Pratchett for sure and most likely will become one of Gaiman’s, too. Good Omens deals with the […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

She Just Hasn’t Met You Yet

Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman

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Picture Death. What do you see? If it’s a pale, thin girl with big hair, dark clothing, and a silver ankh, Neil Gaiman’s to blame. In a moment of inspiration that will long outlive him, he chose to make his personification of death not terrifying or beautiful but cute. Over the course of Absolute Death (which collects two miniseries, three one-off stories, and various ephemera), she quotes Mary Poppins, jokes about pigeons, and ushers the newly dead into the afterlife. Her first appearance was in “The Sound of Her Wings,” an early issue of Sandman. In it, she’s presented as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl before […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Between Ragnarok and a Hard Place

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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When I was a kid, I was fascinated with ancient mythology. My favorite myths were those from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, but I tried to read everything I could get my grubby little hands on. I thought that myths provide a deeper understanding of a particular culture, specifically their understanding of self, their environment, and their place in the universe. For example, isn’t it interesting that the “great flood” is a recurrent theme in myths cross-culturally? And what about the common theme of resurrection, wherein a male figure undergoes a great sacrifice, is dead for a specific number of […]

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6/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |


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