Books I've read so far this year...

[nekosensei]

1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen.
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
12. Fray by Joss Whedon
13. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
14. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
17. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
18. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
19. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
20. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
21. The Doll's House, Dream Country, and Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
22. Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

24. A Game of You and Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman -- These were the next two installments of The Sandman series. I just looked online and discovered that the library has the last four volumes available. Guess what I'm going to try to pick up tomorrow?

On the whole, I have to say that these graphic novels are intelligently written. In Fables & Reflections he writes about a number of historical and mythological people and adds a new twist to their stories. Of course, I've noticed a lot of references to history, literature, and mythology in previous volumes too.

Oh...by the way, almeda mentioned another series of graphic novels that Neil Gaiman worked on, but I don't remember what it's called. She mentioned that there's a character in it that's very similar to Harry Potter and, in fact, many have accused J.K. Rowling of stealing the character from Neil Gaiman. Anybody out there know what I'm talking about?

Comments

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

That'd be The Books of Magic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Books_of_Magic), I suspect.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Yeah...that's the one!

[drl909.livejournal.com]

Yeah, The Books of Magic are what you're thinking of.

As a sort of caveat, if you're looking specifically for things that are written by Gaiman...I think The Books of Magic series is more integrated with the D.C. Comics shared universe than the Sandman comics are, so there are Books of Magic collections & graphic novels that aren't written by Gaiman. I've got one of them...The Names of Magic is what I think it's called.

The Gaiman version of Lucifer also got at least one spin-off series...again, I don't think Gaiman actually wrote it, though.