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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
3.5 rounded up, mixed bag of small stories. The Orpheus collection definitely was the most exciting, some others felt so distant to Sandman and I wasn’t sure why I was reading them.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
reflective
I liked the short story format, however they weren't all super interesting.
We meet Baba Yaga and discover that Death has a splendid collection of floppy hats.
Reread 2022: A collection of short stories, tied together by Morpheus and the Dreaming.
The first chapter features the only emperor of the U.S. and explores how a little bit of madness can keep us from despair.
The next chapter follows Joanna Constantine retrieving Morpheus’ son’s head in the midst of the French Revolution (I noticed the reference to this in the Netflix series when Morpheus refers back to Joanna and the service she discharged).
The third story combines sleeping beauty, Baba Yaga, the Dreaming’s librarian, and werewolves into an adventure-quest-romance being told from grandfather to granddaughter. Fun.
Another story follows a Roman emperor and his dreams, an imperator who spends one day a year as a beggar so as to escape the notice of the gods.
The next story has Marco Polo lost in the desert, where he meets Fiddler’s Green and Dream.
This is followed by the son of Dream and Calliope: Orpheus. His catastrophic marriage to Eurydice, his trip to Hades, his gruesome dismemberment at the hands of the Baccheae.
A story about Daniel, Dream’s son with Lyta. He dreams of Eve and Cain and Abel and Matthew.
The final story is of the glory days of Baghdad, and the power of a well-told tale to inspire pride in one’s heritage.
Reread 2022: A collection of short stories, tied together by Morpheus and the Dreaming.
The first chapter features the only emperor of the U.S. and explores how a little bit of madness can keep us from despair.
The next chapter follows Joanna Constantine retrieving Morpheus’ son’s head in the midst of the French Revolution (I noticed the reference to this in the Netflix series when Morpheus refers back to Joanna and the service she discharged).
The third story combines sleeping beauty, Baba Yaga, the Dreaming’s librarian, and werewolves into an adventure-quest-romance being told from grandfather to granddaughter. Fun.
Another story follows a Roman emperor and his dreams, an imperator who spends one day a year as a beggar so as to escape the notice of the gods.
The next story has Marco Polo lost in the desert, where he meets Fiddler’s Green and Dream.
This is followed by the son of Dream and Calliope: Orpheus. His catastrophic marriage to Eurydice, his trip to Hades, his gruesome dismemberment at the hands of the Baccheae.
A story about Daniel, Dream’s son with Lyta. He dreams of Eve and Cain and Abel and Matthew.
The final story is of the glory days of Baghdad, and the power of a well-told tale to inspire pride in one’s heritage.
Six volumes in and I am still not captivated by this series. The artwork is stellar and occasional story catches my interest so I persist, but this volume had little to interest.
I try really hard to treat Gaiman's story as myths but the persistent unresolved mysteries, appearance of deus ex machina, and characters you are presumed to know grows tiring. Even if you are aware of the canonical backgrounds of some of the mythological characters like Hades or Orpheus, he contorts their stories in ways that only those who are very familiar with the myths can appreciate. It dances too close to being pretentious, selling mystery and lack of character development as the reader simply not being as clever as the author.
I'd much rather learn how this world works and for the world to be truly original and not simply 90's western culture with a high-fantasy overlay. The dialogue is so often modern, even among the gods, why? I'll see if there's any hope in future volumes or if it's simply more of the same quiet display of Robert Smith's power that cures all.
I try really hard to treat Gaiman's story as myths but the persistent unresolved mysteries, appearance of deus ex machina, and characters you are presumed to know grows tiring. Even if you are aware of the canonical backgrounds of some of the mythological characters like Hades or Orpheus, he contorts their stories in ways that only those who are very familiar with the myths can appreciate. It dances too close to being pretentious, selling mystery and lack of character development as the reader simply not being as clever as the author.
I'd much rather learn how this world works and for the world to be truly original and not simply 90's western culture with a high-fantasy overlay. The dialogue is so often modern, even among the gods, why? I'll see if there's any hope in future volumes or if it's simply more of the same quiet display of Robert Smith's power that cures all.
This volume is a collection of one-off stories from the Sandman universe. There are some really good ones, including the Orpheus ones. The others are a little less memorable, but still good.
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No