[ SECRET POST #1642 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1642 ⌋


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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

10. http://i53.tinypic.com/25pl3y8.jpg

[tamabonotchi.livejournal.com]

When I was in 3rd grade and read the book, the only thing that was scary was the cover.

[(Anonymous)]

Give American Gods a whirl. It's awesome.

[berseker.livejournal.com]

... I was bored too, lol. I thought I was the only one.

[nocowardsoul]

I thought so too. Didn't like Stardust much either, though I intend to read Good Omens and American Gods someday.

[greenhoodloxley.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I love it when they include a pointless male character in a movie adaption for no reason whatsoever except that the female protagonist isn't apparently enough to interest an audience. It makes everything just peachy.

[(Anonymous)]

Gaiman is a bit overrated, but you should try his best stuff if you really want to see why people love him. American Gods, Neverwhere, Good Omens.

Gaiman's also said that adults find Coraline creepier than kids do, which I know was true for me. I was older when I read it and thought it was pretty creepy.

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely love (love love love love love) the movie, but I did enjoy the book, too. At first the book didn't strike me as very scary, but after a couple more readings, it really got to me. I just thought about being about 10 or 11 and being forced to face a creepy monster who wants to eat you in order to save your parents. I think Coraline's encounter with the other father in the book was much scarier, but the quest in the movie was much more entertaining.

[les-lenne.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding me? The movie was such a disappointment. D:

[mutantjules.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the book was scary, but I'm pretty sure it made me cry at one point. The movie was AMAZING, though. (and your opinion is your opinion, but damn, if someone asked me for Neil Gaiman recs the non-Coraline things you read are like the things I would rec LAST)

[givemethechild.livejournal.com]

GOOD, it's not just me! I respect him as a writer and I think he's an interesting guy but none of his works have ever particularly grabbed me. I really enjoyed American Gods and Sandman too, but no more than any other decent book I've read. I'm kind of baffled as to how popular he seems to be.

It's weird because all of my friends are obsessed with him. Any time his name comes up it's like OH NEIL GAIMAN YEAH HE'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT CLASS OF WRITER THAN ANY OTHER CONTEMPORARY FANTASY/HORROR WRITER EVER AND HAVE YOU READ HIS LATEST? And I pretend to be a big fan because some of my friends genuinely feel his books have changed their lives and I don't want to belittle that.

I will say that his episode of Doctor Who was one of the best I've ever seen, though. Mostly because I love the idea of, um, anthropomorphisms.

[fairhearing.livejournal.com]

Gaiman said someplace that kids seem fine with the book. ADULTS are the ones who tend to be freaked out by it.

Me, I thought it was deliciously scary and Neil Gaiman's best book. Maybe his ONLY good book, actually.

[arcadiaego.livejournal.com]

Saying 'Overrated' is overrated, or at least overused. How do you prove that something's objectively not that great rather than you just not liking it?

[okapifeathers.livejournal.com]

i personally enjoy his work but i could see how some people wouldn't. i don't think he's over-rated (never heard about him until the Coraline movie came out).

for me, James Patterson is over-rated. i enjoyed some of the Maximum Ride books at first, but man, how many ghost writers must this guy have? or maybe he doesn't because his books always feel way too hastily written.

i enjoyed the Coraline novel for what it was. a children's book. it wasn't super amazing, but i could also see how some people could be big fans.

you know who writes really fun books? robert muchamore

[oxymoronic3.livejournal.com]

I think everyone else has said what I wanted to say, but I'm surprised that my favorite novel by him wasn't recc'd: Anansi Boys! I found it dragged on a lot less than American Gods did and it didn't take itself nearly as seriously which I really enjoyed. If you don't like him, you don't like him and that's perfectly find, but it's worth a whirl.

[vethica.livejournal.com]

I can get not being a fan of Gaiman in general - I'm not enamored of his short stories myself - but you didn't like Sandman? Really? D:

[alliterations.livejournal.com]

I adore Gaiman, but he's not for everyone. /shrugs. People like what they like...I think some of the so-called great American novelists are utter shit, so, you know. Your opinion, anon.

[shinyhappypanic.livejournal.com]

I thought it was supposed to be more sketchy and creepy than scary...

[(Anonymous)]

I'M NOT ALONNNNNNNNE.

Tried Neverwhere; can't remember it. Tried Good Omens; his sections dragged. Tried American Gods; didn't finish it.

All brilliant premises, but just not well executed.

Oh, and I thought the Doctor Who episode failed as well. Again, awesome premise but it just fell flat.

[yuuago]

I found the novel kind of 'meh', but I really, really enjoyed the film.
Maybe I'd feel differently if I'd read the book before seeing the film, though.

[zyxwvutsrq321.livejournal.com]

coraline scared me

I read it when I was quite young and I basically CRIED when that page with the other mother's hand came

and I had to stop reading!

I re-read it more recently and I enjoyed it much better but... yeah, I won't fault you for not finding it creepy or whatever, but for me, it hits quite a few major freakout buttons.

The one scene that scares me to death is the part where she tries to call the police for help getting her parents back, and the policeman just kind of gently tries to get her to go back to bed, thinking that she's had a nightmare, and the only people living around her are kind of scary old people who won't help her either, and she's all alone with this terrifying monster she has to fight! Eep!

and the whole part with the other father in the book. I don't quite recall, but isn't there this whole thing about him being kind of... falling apart? and all the rotting food and whatnot. Basically Coraline hits my abandonment fears pretty hard, haha!

[dinosoiree.livejournal.com]

i love neil gaiman but i do agree he's overrated on the whole. coraline was good but not frightening or creepy, anansi boys was AMAZING, but stardust was just... eh.

[zoey-says.livejournal.com]

OP, you should look into Neverwhere. It was the first book by him that was rec'd to me and I really liked it. Although, I admit, I have a hard time getting into some of his other works, like Sandman and Anansi Boys. Probably because I wanted it to be like Neverwhere. XD

But I agree that he is a tad over-rated. He's a good enough author, but not everything he touches will magically turn to gold.

[bamf2me.livejournal.com]

Most popular authors are overrated to someone. I find Stephen King to be overrated, no matter how much my friends howl at me that he is the most awesome. I know people that hate Pratchett, which I cannot understand. It's the great thing about books, they come in LOTS of different flavors by LOTS of different authors.

American Gods was probably my least favorite of his books, but I still enjoyed it. Honestly, my first love will always be his comics anyway. Sandman was and still is one of my favorite series ever. I find new things every time I read it, even if it's just something new to research. (the geek in me)

I think Gaiman has his status for several reasons. 1) He helped drag masses of adults in to seeing that comics are not just for kids. this is still argued/debated, but for many he was the first experience at reading comics as non-superhero. I'm not saying he invented the genre, it was there forever, but he helped make it more accessible to mainstream - for Good or Ill. Debate as you will.

2) Gaiman is very open and responsive to his fans in many ways. His Twitter account is a great way to get questions answered, and he actually responds - which can be exciting to many fans. He talks to his fans after book readings and signs. He seems to actually want to hear how fans respond to his writings, even if it is not how he meant it.

3) He understands that fans will interpret how they will, and does not demand, as some creators do, that fans can only define things as the writer/creator wishes.

4) He is actually a really nice guy.

Wow, I sound like a major fangirl. Not really what I meant, but whatever.

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

I read that as an adult and it kept me up. Then I gave it to my older brother to read and he called me at midnight yelling/laughing that he couldn't sleep.