/lit/ - Literature

They are definitely entertaining, I wouldn't say we dislike him except insofar as certain segments of /lit/ are ideologically opposed to genre literature as such. I would say that his work isn't stunningly good and that his comics are better than his novels, but you should read them. Neverwhere is entertaining, American Gods is okay, Anansi Boys is okay. But once you've read Gaiman's stuff, there's a wide world of non-traditional fantasy in a similar vein to read much of which is superior to Gaiman's work (and to Gaiman's credit, he loves all this stuff and is willing to talk about it - note the proliferation of books with introductions by Neil Gaiman). Check out Chesterton, and Mervyn Peake, and Jack Vance, and Gene Wolfe, and Dunsany and Eddison and Moorcock, and Leiber and Peter S Beagle and John Crowley and Charles de Lint and M John Harrison they are all so good there is so much good fantasy out there.

There is nothing wrong with Neil Gaiman. I enjoyed his books when I first read them, and they are fun and interesting reads, esp Neverwhere. That being said, he's no Dostoyevsky or Joyce. He writes very good stuff, but his writing isn't revolutionary.

I really like Gaiman.

I enjoy his books and his comics, but it's just all personal prefrence. Plus he cowrote the script for Mirror Mask. It's a great movie and totally worth watching.

He seems to write the same book over and over again. It's fine if you don't read his books back-to-back.

Good Omens is one of my favorite books, he co-wrote it with Terry Pratchett. Quite excellent.

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That one doesn't really count. /lit/ loves it.

Personally, I like his short stories and [to a lesser degree] his poems, a lot more than his novels.

I have to admit, I've never read anything he wrote that wasn't Good Omens, Coraline, or Sandman-related.

But I love him to DEATH.

he seems like a fun guy

goth chix in their late 30s love him

Good Omens is like Pratchett's and Gaiman's redheaded stepchild. Whenever they get mentioned, people always talk about Discworld or Sandman.

Has anyone else noticed that Gaiman is at his best when working with established stories? Even in his short stories and stuff?

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Good Omens is legitimately good but I don't get why people focus on Aziraphale and Crowley to the exclusion of anything else. I guess, you know, fangirls and slash, but still annoying.