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Opinions? Favorite works?

>> No.5318587

I sometimes dream of a female comic author who would be named Gaywoman and be physically faithful to her name.

That was all. Thank you.

>> No.5318599

>>5318587
I didn't even know I wanted this, but I want i t so much.

>> No.5318611

>>5318587
>>5318599
is this reddit or are you just replying to yourself?

>> No.5318644

>>5318575

His short stories are probably better than his novels, but he is still fun to read. My favourite was Anansi Boys, gave me brotherly feels. Also didnt feel like he was forcing the fantasy or deeper meanings, like it sometimes did in Neverwhere and American Gods

>> No.5318664

>>5318575

Mostly girl-bait, Coraline.

>> No.5318667

>>5318664
What's so girl-bait about him?

>> No.5318679

>>5318667

Anecdotal, he's usually the favorite comic book guy/author of the girl nerds I talk to IRL.

>> No.5318688

>>5318575

Dude has good taste and jocks many authors and writers that are much better than him. He knows his place so I can't get down on him too much. Not so much a fan of his work but I did enjoy Stardust, Sandman, and The Graveyard Book.

He's the very definition of a /lit/bro if there ever was one.

>> No.5318697

>>5318679
It's actually the same with me. I just can't find out what in particular brings so much girls to his fandom. It's not that he has fanservice or at least not any that I can see.

>> No.5318699
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5318699

>>5318688
>He knows his place

>> No.5320133

ruins babylon-5 with his twinkly shit, then proceeds to ruin Dr Who.

>What was Neil Gaiman thinking when he was writing the episode?

oh, the usual stuff. motes of dust twinkling in the afternoon sun. the laughter of children playing a game with sinister overtones from the distant past. young girls saving the universe with the power of dreams, unicorn farts and pixie giggles. what he thinks of most of the time when he isn't down in his cellar violating the corpse of Enid Blyton.

>> No.5321185

>>5318697
because he makes a perfect mix of fairy tales magic and that mature adult world womens love

>> No.5321365

Sadman is the best comic ever

>> No.5321375

>>5318575
What do you think we are? Fourteen year old girls?

>> No.5321379

He has been writing the same book for the last 20 years.

>> No.5321450

>>5318575

I don't get why so many praise his works. The novels of his I've read were all generic boy-meets-girl bullshit, and Sandman was just trippy LOLRANDOM shit with graphics like vomit. All his billion edgy fangirls would crucify me for saying this, but I really don't understand.

>> No.5321472

>>5321450
most people don't know any better?

>> No.5321525

>>5321450
Then read more of his work? I don't think i've read anything that's typical boy-meets-girl shit as you describe from him.

>> No.5321532

>>5321379
ouch but didnt gaddis spend that time on JR?

>> No.5321750

>>5321525

I've read Neverwhere and Stardust and they were just that. I also read Coraline and it was so boring I remember absolutely nothing about it. Give me one good reason, why I should still think after three misses that this guy's other books are worth reading.

>> No.5321937

Pretty good YA author, but this board is for adult literature.

>> No.5322231

>>5321937
>this board is for adult literature.
this board is populated by white tweens, where are you getting this idea?

>> No.5322248

Sandman probably. Though it was largely superseded by the Invisibles.

American Gods was good.

>> No.5322266

I read never where and thought it was alright, then I read anansi boys and didn't enjoy it.
But then I read perdido street station and found it to be neverwhere on roids so now I'm not sure why I bothered with gaiman in the first place.
Not that he isn't a cool guy, he's a pretty cool guy.

>> No.5322290

>>5322231
Please fuck off you shitskin/self-hating faggot.

>> No.5322351

>>5322290
*tips fedora*

>> No.5322385

>>5322290

lmao ebin bro

>> No.5322485

>>5322351
how does fedora even remotely make sense in this context?

>> No.5322505
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5322505

I've read American Gods and Neverwhere. Neither really jumped out at me, though I guess AG had me at the start.

If I didn't get on with these two is worth trying more or are most kinda like this?

I guess I'm not really into magical stuff with no rules. For instance, the fantasy in Neverwhere just had no structure to it, was just like the angle, the weirdo fagget assassin and the whole of London below just weren't congruent with each other or anything else. The universe was a hodgepodge with no explanation.

'my the only one who feels like that?

>> No.5322553

>>5322248

>Invisibles

if you genuinely read it all and still ended up liking it, you have objectively awful taste.

>> No.5322565

>>5322485
It almost never makes sense. People just call things that they don't like fedora, such as racism.