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From Our Critics: It seems everyone these days has something to say about Neil Gaimen and his unique literary approach. Unafraid to challenge established principles, or even to put a new spin on the works of other edgy authors, he has a way of making everyone in the literary world, from CNN correspondents first discovering the genre to die hard career critics, stop and take notice. |
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| Guardian Unlimited Books... | |
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"As a genre writer, it has taken Neil Gaiman some time to win around the literary critics. Now that "comic book writers" have become "graphic novelists", he is winning plaudits away from the fields of horror and fantasy, where he has always attracted critical acclaim and numerous awards for his work. His monthly cult horror series, Sandman, which sold over a million copies a year, was described by Norman Mailer as "a comic strip for intellectuals". He tends to be praised more for his imagination, which is rich, dark and very twisted, than the quality of his writing, which veers towards efficient rather than poetic. Following The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish and Coraline, he is also increasingly known and respected as a children's author." |
| BBC News... | |
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"In the field of imagery, Neil Gaiman is truly one of today's most creative and inventive authors.Neil Gaiman has found a way, through imagery, to present the reader with the familiar in an unfamiliar light. He has used his writing prowess to make us think twice about the world in which we live and the people who we spend each day with. He has used this incredible gift to make the world a better place by not only expanding our minds, but by entertaining them as well." |
| George R. R. Martin, Bestselling author, On Neil Gaiman's, American Gods... | |
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"Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive; a picaresque journey across America where the travelers are even stranger than the roadside attractions." |
| Porter Anderson, CNN News... | |
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"Gaiman may still ply his parables on the filmy frontier of the "edgy," but he's been closing in for some 15 years now. Soon he'll have us all surrounded, a multimedia maestro who likes to tell you what "everybody knows" and then rush past before you can object!" |
| Phil Pullman, Bestselling author and literary critic on Coraline... | |
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"Gaiman is too intelligent and subtle to invoke the supernatural - this is much more mysterious than that- But the dangers are real, and part of the richness of the story comes from the fact that it offers many meanings without imposing any. We can see for a moment what it would be like to read the story as the acting-out of some unconscious sense of rejection on Coraline's part; but it is touched on so lightly that a moment later it's left behind. The story is much too clever to be caught in the net of a single interpretation." |
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