Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things

[firecat]

I finished listening to Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, a collection of short stories, novellas, and poems, on audio. Gaiman narrates it himself. He's always been a good reader but his skill has improved. Now he is among the best readers I've listened to. (Yet another thing to envy him for. :-)

I didn't like everything in the collection - some of his stuff is too slight or too self-referential for my taste. But I liked several of the stories quite a lot.

If I ran the world, books containing scenes in which dogs or cats are tortured/killed would come with a mandatory warning sticker. If you don't like stories with such scenes in them, don't read Gaiman's story "Feeders and Eaters".

Comments

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Whatsis name of Salinas who wrote "Of Mice and Men" has been on my "won't read list" since reading his _Red Pony_ as a youngster. It's a horrible death and i'm sure it's an important life lesson learned by the boy of the story, yadda yadda, but cruel and compassionless. Actually, the boy should have learned his father was cruel and compassionless, not life.

Grumble. I must have read this when i was eight....

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

John Steinbeck.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Aiee, you said that name.