Hm. A couple years ago I was looking around on a Tori Amos website, and it mentioned her connection to Delirium and also the tree in Stardust. I did a bit of poking around and decided to ask for Stardust for Christmas, which I got. It was awhile before I got into Sandman, just because I've never been much of a comics fan. Good thing I did though, because I heart Sandman. Yes.

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"Give me all your cookies and I won't have you killed."
-- Tom Servo

I read Good Omens because I liked Terry Prattchet and didn't give a thought to Neil Gaiman

I was intrigued but slightly underwhelmed by Neverwhere when it was on telly (the BBC didn't exactly spend very much money on it!), but eventually got round to checking the novel out of the library...after that I read everything of Neil's the library had to offer, which included a full set of Sandman comics, even though I never read comics

The Sandman series for me, my boss and I had got talking about comics and he brought up "Sandman" comics. I told him I had been curious about them but had just never gotten around to checking them out. Well he ended bringing me in some of the comics to read one day and well I'm on here so go figure what my reaction to them was ;oP

The first thing I ever read of Neils was Dont Panic, and that was entirely because I enjoyed Doug Adams. And then I kept seeing interviews with him in various places talking about how wonderful he was, so I went to the library and read some Sandman and stuff.

Smoke & Mirrors

memento mori

I'm an avid reader mostly fiction from aussie authors like Winton and Malouf, but about a year ago my brother who is very much into fantasy/sci fi sent me "Neverwhere" and "Good Omens" for my birhtday. I tore through "Neverwhere" and was hungry for more Gaiman.....He's amazing! I'm now currently reading "Stardust" and can't put it down. I'm very much enjoying the discussions here about Gaiman's works from his fans.

It was one of those times when I couldn't find much to read. when I heard my friend singing the "Rat Song" from Coraline, I memorized it, and asked her about it.
She told me of the buttons and the other mother, and I was cleaning the library out trying to find this book.
Well, as it turned out, she gave me the wrong name, and only Neverwhere was in the library at the time, so I took hers, an I discovered that if you put all three of the rat songs together, it makes one song altogether.(I have it hanging on my wall right now)
Then it was Nverwhere, after,Stardust, and then Smoke and Mirrors(though I didn't finish it, it was a rather wierd book-nothing I expected from Gaiman.) The rest is history.

annairia

In sixth or seventh grade (I'm in 10th now) I borrowed a graphic-novel type thing from a classmate. I remember almost nothing about it; it had Titania, a manticore, an unclimbable wall, and Death. If anyone can tell me the title, I'd be much obliged.

Anyhoo, I forgot all about that and last summer was pointed towards Good Omens by a friend. Read it, found it hysterical, kept the name Gaiman in the back of my mind.

A month or two later I was in a library for a chess tournament. I was waiting for a ride and picked up Season of Mists because of the cool cover. I read the whole thing in one sitting. After I finished, I looked up. There I was, in this huge, nearly empty library, with this absolutely astounding story burning through my mind. I'll remember that feeling for a long time, even if I can't describe it well.

Thanks, Neil, for scaring and elating me not only simultaneously, but more than any storyteller has before.

*meep!*

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In sixth or seventh grade (I'm in 10th now) I borrowed a graphic-novel type thing from a classmate. I remember almost nothing about it; it had Titania, a manticore, an unclimbable wall, and Death. If anyone can tell me the title, I'd be much obliged.

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That would have been "The Books of Magic: Bindings." Not one of Neil's works. He did write the original the original "The Books of Magic" (which is collected in a single volume by that title). "Bindings" were the first stories of the series built from Neil's work. The writer was John Ney Rieber.

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Gingerly, I clunked down the tunnel, eager to surprise my prey.

First off, welcome to the board Nathaniel, and secondly, if you liked Season of Mists, then if you haven't already you should really check out the rest of the Sandman stuff. There's another 9 volumes like that one and at least two, (volume 6, Fables and Reflections, and volume 7, Brief Lives), which in my humble opinion are even better.

And I know exactly what you meant when you described the feeling at the end of reading that, I felt the exact same way when I first picked up Sandman. What Gaiman does in those stories is simply out of this world.

Larger than life is the perfect size

Oh, and if you're planning on sticking around, be sure to head over to The Worls End forum, that's where most of the action on this site takes place. You can even get the official welcome, complete with cookies and balloons.

Larger than life is the perfect size

I'm not entirely sure... I know I liked him for a while, but I don't think I actually *read* anything of his until this year when my extra-special boyfriend lent me one of the Sandman books... h'm, that's really odd. where did I hear about him before? ::wanders off in a daze::

Magic will find you, if you let it.

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There I was, in this huge, nearly empty library, with this absolutely astounding story burning through my mind.
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wow, I definitely know that feeling... had it with Violet & Claire, and probably The Druid of Shannara though I first read it so long ago I can't remember now.. a couple of other books. now I have to read that. you'll have to buy it and lend it to me. ^.^

Magic will find you, if you let it.

The trade paperback of the Dolls House... or so I initially thought.

It was some years later I found out that I had actually, first encountered Neil's work when he was part of the "Peace and Love Corporation" (along with Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne) when they used to write the humorous pages between the photo's of naked ladies in Knave, back in the mid-eighties...how sad is that. "honestly, I bought them for the funny articles"

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I'm not surprised - they had so many good articles in that magazine.
-GMZoe, who maintains a Neil/P&LC focused Knave bibliography

... I was not in reading comic books back then, but I read some newspaper article mentioning Death. Next day I went to a comic bookshop, and that was it. The owner of the shop still starts laughing when I enter, telling him: "This time I'm not buying anything!"... But he's addicted, too.

Heh... old thread, but I remember when I was younger (middle school, maybe?) my older brother had bought a few vertigo and left them in the bathroom. The one I picked up was "24 hours" and I thought it was some sort of porn (that issue is SCARY, esp out of context!)

Many years later, 2nd year of college, my dad says I need to read Neil Gaiman (I didn't make the connection to 24 hours until later). He hands me breif lives, which is unfortunate because it was basically a spoiler for the entire series, but fortunate because reading it was a beautiful quasi-religious experience, and I went through the whole series and moved onto neverwhere then coroline on tape (I love hearing Gaiman read that!!!)

My current Gaiman obsession is Murder Mysteries, the audio version, which blows my mind every time I listen to it...

I guess it was when I saw this cute guy in a coffeebar last summer reading this book and saw how he was stuggling to keep from crying. I went over and asked him what he was reading and if that was what was making him cry. It was "Murder Mysteries" from Smoke & Mirrors. It was a library book, so he didn't let me borrow it, but a day or so later I saw him again and he loaned me Season of Mist. I was hooked immediately! I think I read next the Death miniseries where she's Didi for a day.

Haft sá hún liggja undir Hveralundi,
lægjarns líki Loka á†ekkjan ...

I was in a little second-hand bookshop in Norwich, England...I was poking around and came across "The Dream Hunters," and the artwork amazed me...I was completely blown away. So I bought it, read it, loved it, and went out in search of more like it. I managed to fall in love with the writing more than the artwork that originally caught my eye (although I am still a big fan of Yoshitako Amano's work to this day) and now I own all of the "Sandman Library" as well as the Death miniseries. I'm on the lookout for more...I've been trying to find "American Gods" here in Savannah, but it seems to be sold out everywhere I go...I guess it's just that good! Anyway, I shall find it one day, I'm sure.

Eist moran agus can beagan

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It was some years later I found out that I had actually, first encountered Neil's work when he was part of the "Peace and Love Corporation" (along with Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne) when they used to write the humorous pages between the photo's of naked ladies in Knave, back in the mid-eighties...how sad is that. "honestly, I bought them for the funny articles"

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I remember back in the 80s the seminal UK humour magazine "The Truth" which also featured Neil, Kim and Eugene. In fact I've still got a couple of them somewhere. As a DNA fan, I later read and hugely enjoyed the 1st ed. of "Don't Panic" and put 2 and 2 together. I actually knew Kim and Eugene about 20 years ago when they were involved in a Somerset arts fanzine called "Sheep Worrying". It's a small world....

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