Signal to Noise

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Summary: One of Neil's Best Works
Review: This may be Neil's best non-Sandman book. It is not a happy book. It is serious and it is literature. A director in his final days on earth writes a screenplay about the end of the world--in 999 A.D. In truth, it is about our contemporary society and what life means within that realm. The title refers to the book (Signal to Noise) as the signal, and our contemporary society as the white noise that it points us toward and tries to help us understand. It doubles as it refers to the script that the director is writing in the same fashion. Remember that the script hasn't been made into a movie yet at which point it will be both signal and noise. Indeed, the artistic medium that the director works with is very symbolic of all the white noise in American society (or British for that matter). A previous reader who did not understand the title or the book gave it a negative review on the first edition of the book that was originally offered on Amazon. That's sad.

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Summary: Title clue
Review: To answer a question: The term "Signal to Noise" refers to a radiobroadcasting term: the signal to noise ratio, which describes the level of music (or whatever) to the level of background static. i.e. How well is your message getting through? In the case of Neil Gaiman: a lot. A whole lot.

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Summary: one of the best one shot comics ever.
Review: What Neil Gaiman does is to bring together the different ideas all of us have about what life is and apply it to one mans death. If you can find it buy it it will affect you especially if you have ever experienced the death of a loved one.

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Summary: Brilliant.
Review: _Signal to Noise_ once again brings together artist Dave McKean (Cages, the Sandman covers, Violent Cases) and writer Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Angels and Visitations, Violent Cases, Neverwhere) to produce a stunning work of unparalelled quality. The story is touching and mysterious, as Gaimain's always are, and the art has the fantastic dreamlike quality that I've come to expect from McKean. This book is *very* hard to find, but well worth it if you can