Sandman Collected Library: Sandman, The: Dream Country - Book III (Paperback)

from Britt84

Third Sandman volume. This volume is again a series of different stories that are more or less separate. I really liked this one, more so than the first and second volume. The stories are very different and show Gaiman's diversity. Themes and characters from the other volumes return, but we also ...

from DeltaQueen50

The Sandman Vol 3: Dream Country consists of four stories and the inclusion of the script for the first story, Calliope, which I found both interesting and enlightening. As Gaiman says in the introduction, who doesn't want to see behind the illusion. And illusion is precisely what Dream Country a...

from elenchus

SYNOPSIS | Four stories, unrelated either to one another or to earlier narrative arcs. The first three serve the same role as did interludes in the preceding volumes, expanding on some aspect of Morpheus's character and/or the workings of the Dreaming. The last revisits an old DC character and fe...

from GingerbreadMan

This volume collects four short stories, that bridge the gap between two long (and very good) Sandman arcs: Doll's house and Season of Mists. Included here is the award-winning "A midsummer night's dream", about the original performance of Shakespeare's play. This is not only a central story in t...

from MrsLee

My heart is torn on this one between three and four stars. I loved two of the stories and found the other two very interesting and compelling, but the content is such that I couldn't recommend it to most of my friends, and I didn't enjoy that part either. I don't understand why the focus on the h...