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Summary: Another good one.
Review: These are good stories. Properly speaking, they are barely 'Sandman' stories: I think the Sandman makes just one cameo appearance. They're still good stories. The format is familiar: strangers wait out a storm at an inn unfamiliar to all of them. They pass the time exchanging stories. OK, it's an old bottle, but Gaiman fills it with new wine. The stories range from the biographical to the fantastic and satiric. The most mythic story, I think, takes place in the politics of a world much like modern America, or maybe 70s America. Mythology isn't about distant times, it's about grand heroes and their quests - I like to be reminded of that occasionally. I usually read comics for the artwork first and writing second. The various artists in this book are all capable enough, but that's not what carries the book. I was quite happy to be pulled along by the story-telling.
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Summary: Brilliant collection with a variety of stories
Review: This is a book for those long winter nights, when you just need to curl up by the fire (or the lamp) and escape into the realm of stories. The collection is similar to the Arabian Nights in it's story within a story structure and it will not disappoint. Definitely a must have for all Sandman buffs as well as for lovers of good storytelling. This and the entire Sandman series is comic book literature at it's best.
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Summary: Interesting stories
Review: This is another collection of independent short stories involving dream. Some of them are good, some are bad, but I think the one about the dreams cities have is the most interesting. The artwork changes to an interesting almost art-deco style, and the story is excellent surrealist literature. I would rank this volume above dream country, but below fables and reflections.
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Summary: Interesting stories
Review: This is another collection of independent short stories involving dream. Some of them are good, some are bad, but I think the one about the dreams cities have is the most interesting. The artwork changes to an interesting almost art-deco style, and the story is excellent surrealist literature. I would rank this volume above dream country, but below fables and reflections.
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Summary: Touches of Sandman
Review: This is not a Dream-centered books, you crazy women who are, admit it, a little stuck on the Sandman. This is a book about dreams...the lives, in essence, that he touches. He pops up in various places along the way, but this is more a collection of short stories. Two travelers get lost in a snowstorm in June and find their way to an inn of all worlds. Creatures from various times and places, caught up in the "reality storm" have come to this place for food and drink and rest from the icy storm, including Clurachan (sp?), a favorite faerie hedonist from other installments in the Sandman series. My favorite story is inarguable "A Tale of Two Cities" when a very average man with a very normal job and a great love of his city finds himself, after falling asleep in the subway (see if you can't connect to an interest in subways overall by Gaiman in his book "Neverwhere"), that he has fallen into a dream of the city. Cities dream as do people...anyone who has traveled extensively knows that cities do have their own personalities. New Orleans feels nothing like New York, etcetera. He searches for months trying to find an exit from the dream of the city, only to find temptation to stay. All of the stories are entertaining, but this one sticks out the most in my mind. I have a great love of cities, especially New York, and I can only imagine what she dreams. A dark shadow plagues the end of "World's End"...a funeral procession...who this funeral procession is for, well...call it foreshadowing.
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Summary: Well told story, not very Dream-related
Review: Travelers all converge at a Tavern at the end of the world to sit out a snowstorm. They pass the time by telling stories. The stories make up each issue and quite often the stories are inseparable from their narrators. Many familiar Sandman characters pop up such as Hob Gadlin and Cluaracan of faerie in the most entertaining of the stories. Even though the Sandman barely figures into the stories, his presence is felt; but what makes everything work is that different artists do the different stories in their own styles. In the case of Mike Allred (the creator of Madman one of the funnest super hero books in recent years) his style works perfectly with the tale of Prez. The last issue is a foreshadowing of things to come... Brace yourself for "The Kindly Ones."
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