A small rule though, it can be single issue stories from Sandman.

Mine is Looking for the Girl, I don't know why, I really like it, its original, and I read it a lot. Many times I pull A&V or S&M off the shelf just to read that.

Howza bout you?

Currently listening to: David Gray White Ladder

I'm kinda partial to Baby Cakes, especially the spoken version on Warning: Contains Language. That story just creeps me out!

I love Murder Mysteries. I'm kinda partial to Heaven/Hell type stories anyway, but this one blew me away. Every time I read it I seem to pick up a few more little points. It really is an amazingly intricate story.

One Life.... is cool, if only because it reminds me of what I was like at eleven or twelve. The comic adaptation was pretty good, but lacked subtlety on some points that seemed semi-ambiguous in the text version.

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I love Tastings (I think that's it) the porn one about the empathy?

But Murder Mysteries as my favourite. It's pretty Milton-esque, and has alot of the same ideas raised. Also the twist is horrible and I genuinely had no inkling of it until my second reading.

Shoggoth's Old Peculiar

"Ramadan"

Snow, Glass, Apples is very disturbing and creepy. I fell in love with it from the first sentence.
But also the Sandman issue from Season of Mists, the one with Charles Rowland and Paine. Very creepy, too!

Forgot to mention 'The Wedding Present' from the introduction of S&M (which, when abbreviated like that, sounds like it should be a book of porno fiction) which is a strangely creepy story that sends chills down my spine every time I read it.

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It's gotta be "Dream of a Thousand Cats"! that story just speaks to the idealist in me!

Baby Cakes & Snow, Glass, Apples

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huh... I guess like his humor and his portrayals on sweet but odd individuals, so I like "Being an experiment...", "Chivalry"/"Golden boy" (prez)/"3 sept & jan" (emp norton)
Surprised no one else listed them

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I was introduced to Mr. Gaiman when a friend of mine made me read "Being an experiment..." years ago. I laugh just thinking about it and it will always be one of my favourites. GMZoe, I'm surprised that no one else mentioned it too.

What book was 'Being an experiment...' in?

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Being an experiment has been available in three places. Originally it was in a magazine called 20/20 (rather rare now), then it was reprinted in Angels & Visitations, and finally put on the spoken word CD Warning: Contains Language as a hidden track

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Being an experiment has been available in three places. Originally it was in a magazine called 20/20 (rather rare now), then it was reprinted in Angels & Visitations, and finally put on the spoken word CD Warning: Contains Language as a hidden track

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Damn. Looks like I'll have to get hold of a copy of Warning: Contains Language, then.
Any word on that new printing of A&V that Neil mentioned a while ago on the Journal?

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Why the hell do a READING of that story?? The whole point of it is that it's something that's written down. I mean, how do you do the spelling mistakes in a reading?

This must be the proof that even someone as smart as Gaiman does stupid and pointless things do his own work sometimes.

I think this is a case of don't knock it til you heard it type thing.

It is really funny read live, and he does a good job of the mispelling thing and the whole act of being drunk. It is really really good.

'Babycakes'

'We Can Get Them For You Wholesale'

'Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story'

'Murder Mysteries'

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Why the hell do a READING of that story?? The whole point of it is that it's something that's written down. I mean, how do you do the spelling mistakes in a reading?

This must be the proof that even someone as smart as Gaiman does stupid and pointless things do his own work sometimes.

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Well, you should also ask yourself why, at the end of the story, the drunk writer keeps typing "got to excuse myself. Oh God" or why he types all the "whosshisnames" - they're all sound like what a drunk would say in person far more than what a drunk writer would type. Hearing it read aloud sounds very natural, and very well done

Oh, there are so many.

Out of Sandman it has to be between Dream of a Thousand Cats and Ramadan.

From the collected short stories, Snow, Glass, Apples and The White Road.

Definitely The White Road when it comes to the ones on WCL. (Actually I think that one's marginally better spoken than on paper.) Although I also like Chivalry and Babycakes.