Fragile Things

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Fifteen Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot - 2/5 - brief vignettes made to accompany a book of vampire tarot cards (? 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.

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can color one's entire day.And if we crave blood, well, it is no more than the way you people crave food or affection or sunlight - and besides, it gets us out of the house. And paying homage is tricky too--it can't be merely a lesser or different version of the original concept. Sunbird" (4 stars)- I liked the whole thing about this elusive eating club getting their just desserts. Stories, Neil Gaiman informs in the introduction, are fragile things made up of 26 letters (more if you want to use phonetic symbols), ink and paper.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t talk about how the stories (and poems) within Fragile Things are often experimental or unusual in structure.Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire – Gaiman makes fun of the kind of reader I was at 14. Harlequin Valentine' was one of the few I rather enjoyed, an unexpected metamorphosis coming to a stalking puppet.

A pesar de su escasa extensión, creo que ha sido una de mis historias favoritas, porque creo que retrata de alguna forma "las vueltas de la vida".Aunque debo decir que no me gustó particularmente, y probablemente sea de aquellas historias que olvide primero. Tal como sugiere el título, se trata de una serie de páginas sueltas de un diario, que relatan la búsqueda interminable del protagonista de una chica llamada Scarlet. More recently, although I was happily buried in a pile of Christmas reading, I purchased his second collection of short fictions, Fragile Things, to revisit this infectious voice and break away from heavier reading into his eerie landscapes. I'm not easily shocked or offended, but I like that sometimes Neil's writing van cause that little thrill in me. The stories were quite good, but very few had anything to do with the idea of a “trigger” that sets the story in motion and reveals the horror lurking in wait.

Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would. Este relato se parece un poco al primero, en el sentido que el autor toma un clásico, como son las Crónicas de Narnia, a partir del cual narra una historia. But I do want to say that one thing I love about almost the entire collection is the interpretability of the stories. There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow. The Problem of Susan briefly discusses a history of children’s fiction, moving from books where children were just miniature adults to ones that are more ‘pure’ and ‘sanctimonious’, and dealt with issues that befall children in the way they perceive and react to them.This helps highlight Gaiman’s pervasive idea of the power stories hold while also allowing him to bring the reader into the story at a safe distance before shocking them. That said, Instructions, a poem that illustrates the clichés of fairytales in the manner of laying out ground-rules for what to do should one find themselves in a fairytale, is highly creative and one of my favorite pieces here. I like the first paragraph and the phrase, "In every way that counted, I was dead"--a fantastic opening line.