William Morrow Fragile Things - Short Fictions and Wonders Used Condition

from rivkat

Short stories and poems-a couple try too hard to have a twist at the end, and I was left completely cold by the series of drabbles Gaiman wrote for two Tori Amos albums, but at his strongest Gaiman can really mesh the creepy and the cute. The drabble-esque format worked for me best with Fifteen P...

from xicanti

Neil Gaiman sneaks up on me. I'm reading along, certain that I don't much care about what's happening, when I suddenly realize that I'm speed reading because I'm so desperate to know where all this is going. It's all about the buildup. Gaiman's narratives gradually gain momentum until the story t...

from PghDragonMan

Fragile Things is a collection of works from the fertile mind Neil Gaiman that spans such a range, it is difficult to classify, except to say it is brilliant. Within this collection are some short stories, poems, sketches for works that were later expanded and one longer work that is not exactly ...

from MyriadBooks

Gaiman is a favorite author of mine, and I snapped up a copy of Fragile Things as soon as I could. As with any short story collection, there were some stories I loved more than others, but overall this collection ranks as my second favorite of Gaiman's collections. The one thing that seriously ir...

from iron_queen

A bizarre parade of freakish delights, each one bringing a bitterer pleasure than the last. Neil Gaiman is one of the few authors out there whose imagination bursts, unadulterated, off the page and into the minds of his readers. That said, there were a few short stories that stayed with me longer...