Neil Gaiman

[Dr Haggard]

I'm sure fans of Pratchett will have read Good Omens, a book that I adore. It's funny that I always though Good Omens was 100% classic Pratchett, until I started reading Neil Gaiman's books. So many of the bits that I loved are straight out of Gaiman's weird wonderful and very literary world.

If you haven't read Gaiman before I recommend anything and everything he has writted, but particularly American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust and the Sandman Library.

[empireofthecat]

I have all of Neil Gaiman's books, he's an excellent author. American Gods, Anansi Boys and Neverwhere are especially good, though if you like graphic novels, you can't go wrong with the Sandman series, and he also has some great kids books

[oneofthesedays]

Neverwhere and American Gods were my two favourites of Neil Gaiman's - in fact they would rank pretty much up in my list of favourite books overall as well!

[Mouse]

Have just read Stardust for my book group. It was an enjoyable and easy read. At times you feel you are reading a children's book, but then there are shocking acts of violence that bring you up short - the killing of the unicorn is very sad and graphic.
Having watched the trailer for the upcoming film, I have the feeling I will enjoy this more than the book, which lacked spark. http://www.stardustmovie.com/intl/uk/

[Flingo]

A few of us read a collection of Gaiman's short stories, Smoke and Mirrors, about a year - 18 months ago. There are discussions to be read in The Book Group Archive (http://www.bookgrouponline.com/forum/forumdisplay.html?f=502).
It was an enjoyable and easy read. At times you feel you are reading a children's book, but then there are shocking acts of violence that bring you up short
I think this was echoed in the short stories discussion - many of them had a very child-like basis (set around fairy tales etc), but there was always something to remind you that it wasn't suitable reading for an 8 year old!

I saw Gaiman talking at the recent "Bath Children's Literature Festival". He was thoroughly entertaining, and told us a lot about his next couple of books for children and where he was at with writing them. The next to be published (in about a years time) is the full story and context for a short story which recently appeared in a fantasy collection, called Dark Alchemy, Has anyone seen this collection?

[solace91z]

I started off with Gaiman's run on The Sandman, and subsequently read American Gods (probably my favourite), Anansi Boys and Stardust. His graphic novel Marvel: 1602 is also worth a read.