tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528472736986138907.post6353705989434403586..comments2023-04-16T03:14:40.750-06:00Comments on Kate's Novel Idea: Book Challenge: A Book Set Somewhere You've Always Wanted to VisitThe Hot Girl in the Comic Shophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14325940587057758904noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528472736986138907.post-41473638722107042192015-02-09T17:11:18.220-07:002015-02-09T17:11:18.220-07:00The only other book of his I've read is Corali...The only other book of his I've read is Coraline, and it's one of my favorites. But there is something about his writing that's just... off. Part of it, I think, is that he knows his worlds so well, they make so much sense to him, that he forgets that the rest of us don't actually know how it all works. You always kind of feel like a stranger in his stories, and not in a good way. And "hollow" is not a bad way of putting it. It's like there's just something missing from his stories. The Hot Girl in the Comic Shophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325940587057758904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528472736986138907.post-15587240207035482952015-02-09T16:38:47.855-07:002015-02-09T16:38:47.855-07:00Haha, it's funny to see how the other books I ...Haha, it's funny to see how the other books I read at the same time influence the ratings of books I read around the same time. (For instance, I read this book after I had a loooong semester of reading contemporary short stories that killed my soul a little bit).<br /><br />I agree with a lot of points in your review and they're actually the reason that I like Neil Gaiman, but he's not my favorite. (Even though I did rate this book really highly. But I loved some of the chapters and I thought the beginning was especially good.) I love his imagination, but there's just something about his stories that leave me a little hollow? I don't know. It's hard to explain and maybe I don't make any sense, haha.Ginny-Gin-Ginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10340903080612520657noreply@blogger.com