Reviews

The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman

michaelterranceauthor's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

hlrusso's review

4.0

How I review:

5: Loved it and will reread
4: Liked it
3: It was fine
2: It's not for me
1: It's really not for me/DNF

hezaasan's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

As a Neil Gaiman fan, this was a delightful view into his journey s a writer with the added bonus of experiencing the pieces that have most impacted his followers over the years -- and what a variety of types of tales that is. This is also a great book to share with people who have never read him, as there is something here for everyone, nonfiction purists excepted. I loved this read, and will definitely keep it on my shelf to revisit many times in the future.

scholiast's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I had to pause after The Wedding Present, because that completely broke my heart. Carried on 3 years later.. Neil Gaiman does that to you, there is no one like him! ❤️

gassyhaggis's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

davey_p's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

dallusiona's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

lea8914lh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

designatedbanana's review

fast-paced

5.0

As with most books that stay on my currently reading shelf for a long time, it's not that the book actually took me awhile to read it's that I got to the last 20ish pages and didn't want it to end. 
This is a great book to completely read through once then use for reference. I have a lot of the short stories in other forms that I don't want to annotate so I used this as a way to write notes and mark my favorite stores so I can go back to them easily. 
I think this book is a great investment for anyone that is a fan of Neil Gaiman, it's a great way to read a bunch of short stories that may not have gone into Trigger Warning or Smoke and Mirrors, and it has some experts from his books that are a fun little reminder of how amazing those books are.

thebanhammer's review

4.0

A great book especially if you are a Neil Gaiman fan. It is like a best-of album but, clearly, the stories were picked with great care and placed in a thoughtful order. I highly recommend it.