just read the book in time for the film
it was ok.
i like neil gaimon as an idea man, but not so much as a writer. none of his characters or places ever come to life for me. they're always rather flat, indifferent. for example, i usually cry when an animal dies. in wicked, i cried when a bear cub died. the cub didn't do a damn thing except die, but i cried. the unicorn is killed in this, he was more of a character and i LOVe unicorns, but i didn't care about it. i didn't care about the herop and his star, i didn't care about the evil witch, i didn't care about anyone. no one was really alive for me. and i found the whole thing, especially the epiloguie, really unsatisifactory. im hoping the film will bring it to life better
and i have to say, it's alittle odd that two people have said that they like the fact that tristarn matured and changed throughout the story. um, he should! i guess that kinda say something about other writers, that perhaps their characters don't change and develop as they should when things happen to them, that people so note that it did happen to this one.
anyway, i love neil gaimon for his ideas. teh story as the character, the ghosts watching everything, it was pretty unique for me. and i love his sandman, but there it's just speech, with pictures, no prose. i guess i just don't like his prose, his descriptions, his actions *shrug* read neverwhere too and good omen (which i hated, a fair bit because i don't like pratchett) and neither of them really did anything for me either. tho i loved neverwhere the show
oh well