Fragile Things

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Some stories gave me the chills, sure, but at the same time, I felt a wave of sorrow and a feeling of understanding, empathy. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the fantastical stuff with its focus on the magic of youth and mystery of the unknown.

It is certainly something every short story enthusiast and fantasy fan, let alone Neil Gaiman fan will want to read. I don't think of Gaiman as a YA author, but even so, I didn't expect the themes and details of the stories in this collection to be so jaded or brutal. And I do think it's unnecessarily mercenary to lump us with jottings of your drafts that didn't quite work. Fragile Things is a collection of oddities, retellings, poetry, spin-offs, and queer creations of Neil Gaiman's colorful imagination. On the other hand, something like “Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire” frustrates me, because I feel like I’m almost-but-not-quite getting it.A fine copy of the first paperback edition (1st printing) of this collection of short stories by this popular author. But this is a mostly almost-horror collection of short story ideas rendered in a not particularly clever way, and I often had the feeling I was reading bits and pieces of autobiography tucked into larger tales. The contents, with a little green ink to the text block fore-edge from Gaiman's signature, are clean throughout. That alone could have made for a great story, but Gaiman takes it one step further, introducing strange dreams that portray Aslan and the White Witch as conspirators and lovers rather than enemies. And it only took me, well, 3 months to make my way through this collection of Neil Gaiman fantasy stories.

Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky" (3. Tra le perle abbiamo comunque Uno studio smeraldo (Sherlock Holmes incontra Lovecraft), Presiede Ottobre (uno dei racconti che avevo già letto), L'uccello del sole (altro raccolto già letto, l'unico che ricordavo abbastanza bene), Gli altri (sull'Inferno). The Problem of Susan" (5 stars)- Disturbing as anything, but it does give a different perspective as what became of Susan Pevensie and why she turned her back on all things Narnia.I happen to own more than one Tori album, but she can get haunting and mournful quite fast, and I'd rather not spend the rest of the day depressed. Almeno quattro li avevo già letti in passato, magari con altri titoli, ma a distanza di svariati anni avevo rimosso quasi tutti i racconti dalla memoria, quindi poco male. Don't worry, I'm not losing the 1/4 soul I own (my mother told me my siblings and I share one soul between us because there aren't enough souls to go around anymore, due to our living too long and the lower infant mortality rate, etc. Occasionally he does lovely things with words and had fabulous ideas, and I hear he's a very nice guy.