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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; by Neil Gaiman
Topic Started: Jan 7 2016, 11:54 PM (148 Views)
Vanessa
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From one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers of our time comes a major new collection of stories and verse

"We each have our little triggers . . . things that wait for us in the dark corridors of our lives." So says Neil Gaiman in his introduction to Trigger Warning, a remarkable compendium of twenty-five stories and poems that explore the transformative power of imagination.

In "Adventure Story"—a thematic companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the ways in which people take their stories with them when they die. "A Calendar of Tales" is comprised of short pieces about the months of the year—stories of pirates and March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale "The Case of Death and Honey." Also included is "Nothing O'Clock," a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the beloved series in 2013, as well as the never-before-published "Black Dog," a haunting new tale that revisits the world of American Gods as Shadow Moon stops in at a village pub on his way back to America.

Gaiman, a sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, entrances with his literary alchemy and transports us deep into an undiscovered country where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday is incandescent. Replete with wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of literary delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul.
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I'm about a third of the way in. I was going to review each story separately, but I'm one of those people that need a trigger warning for poetry. Both of the ones toward the beginning are good, but I'm not all that into them generally. I prefer "My Last Landlady" is the one I like a bit more, but it's also a narrative. Neil Gaiman is one of the only authors whose introductions I really enjoy reading. I read "A Lunar Labyrinth" earlier this year. I like it. I'll have to double-check when it was first published, but I'm planning on nominating it in the 2015 awards, since I first read it in a literary magazine from this year.

"The Thing About Cassandra" is my favorite story so far. I really liked the main character's voice, and he had me hooked immediately. He was totally fleshed out right from the beginning. I also like "Orange" a lot. The narrative device of telling a story using only answers to questions is one the I really enjoy, and I liked seeing it used in a more silly context. I've enjoyed all of the stories so far.
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This sounds freaking amazing. Neil Gaiman is wonderful. :p
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Neil Gaiman's short story collections are always good reads, and this one isn't any different. There were only a couple stories that I didn't like, and one was a poem, so it maybe shouldn't count. "And Weep, Like Alexander" is very clever. "The Return of the Thin White Duke" is especially poignant reading it after David Bowie's death. I really enjoyed the fairy tale stories toward the end of the book. A Neil Gaiman version of Sleeping Beauty is something that I would automatically enjoy very much, and they lived up to my expectations. I liked the story connected to American Gods less than I thought I would, but I really liked the Sherlock Holmes story and the Dr. Who one.
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