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“Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?” “Then what died? who are you mourning?” “A point of view.”

The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman

August 26, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is the second time while reading this series I have been sorely tempted to give one of these five stars, and I probably will when I revisit in future. What’s holding me back right now is that for most of this, I was only mildly emotionally engaged, but the very last issue, “The Tempest,” is one of my favorite things in this series, and maybe that Gaiman has ever written. I got a little teary while reading it, and in a different state of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Charles Vess, Comics, graphic novels, horror, narfna, Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, the wake

narfna's CBR12 Review No:102 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Charles Vess, Comics, graphic novels, horror, narfna, Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, the wake ·
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the night was clere though i slept i seen it.

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

March 26, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

What a truly impressive book that I didn’t like very much! The premise of this book is looking at a turning point in Anglo-Saxon England right after 1066 as a kind of apocalypse for those involved. Some recently books I’ve read (Gone with the Wind; The Grapes of Wrath) also treat the lives of the primary characters as if they are facing down the apocalypse….this too is a theme in a lot of other books like Doomsday Book and many different encounter narratives by indigenous groups. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Paul Kingsnorth, the wake

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:151 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Paul Kingsnorth, the wake ·
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