Stacked :: May 2012
by Samantha ~ May 31st, 2012. Filed under: stacked.
Earlier this spring, I had decided that one of my birthday presents to myself was that I was going to re-read all of my favorite books. It started off that way, with Neverwhere, wound up working through Neil Gaiman’s novels. I’m anxiously waiting for the tenth anniversary edition of American Gods to come out in paperback in a few weeks. Stardust arrived in the mail a few days ago, although that was my least favorite of his (even though I adore the movie adaptation)*.
I’m just going to assume that everyone has read Nail Gaiman’s novels, so I’m not going to bother with the descriptions or reviews of each. If you have not yet done so, start with my favorite, Neverwhere, and go from there. If you have read everything already, read them all again.
Ender’s Game, obviously, is not by Neil Gaiman, and it actually isn’t one of my favorite novels. It’s a very enjoyable novel in its own right, and is actually being filmed in New Orleans right now. I’m curious if the success of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games is why it’s finally in production after all this time.
I think I’ll be spending the rest of this rainy afternoon with The Sandman series.
**There was a ten minutes pause in updating this, spent browsing his titles on Amazon, adding and removing items from my cart, debating whether or not I want to dig through our storage unit to find the copies we already own. I know we have Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Fragile Things, and Smoke & Mirrors (mostly first editions, no less), and now I’m wondering if it’s worth searching through 50+ boxes of books, or re-buying them for a penny and then eventually donating them to the library**.
**Debate solved.
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May 31st, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Love your Stacked posts, I find a lot of great reads here! Thanks. If you love dystopian settings, futuristic worlds and vampires kinda paralleling the feeling of the Strain Trilogy, I read this great book called The Passage by Justin Cronin. It’s the first book of a trilogy, the second book, I think it’s called The Twelve comes out in Oct.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:46 PM
I’ve always been doubtful that Ender’s Game would translate well to film, even with the more recent books about Bean adding some detail.
Anansi Boys and Neverwhere are still on my “to read” list.
June 1st, 2012 at 7:07 AM
i fully support this endeavor and purchasing books that are lost or misplaced. I never did see the Stardust film though :(
June 1st, 2012 at 12:55 PM
good call on re-reading Sandman. i may have to put that on the summer reading list. shamefully, i have not read any of the other Gaiman books. i’m stuck in this junkie rock star autobiography thing right now.
June 11th, 2012 at 12:55 AM
Tara, I’ll definitely add that to my list! I’m so glad that you enjoy these posts, they’re actually my favorite to draft up.
Eric :: I read the sequels years ago, and honestly don’t remember them. I’m not really sure how well it’ll translate, either, but it’s more likely than not that I’ll see it!
bairdduvessa :: yes!! and watch that movie! It’s really enjoyable!
jtrrrash :: I’m having such a great time reading them all right now, I highly recommend them! Any recommendations on the bios? We’ve had the Keith Richards on the shelf since it came out ages ago and still haven’t gotten around to it.