![]() ![]() Gaiman excels in the sustained continuous sweep of long fiction and his short works are sketches based on ideas of unequal merit. This is not to say that the thirty-one pieces – some poetry but mostly prose – of Fragile Things are equally successful. ![]() The first movie MirrorMask was a low budget production with which he had much to do and it is certainly conceivable that MirrorMask may for this reason be his most successful cinematic venture. In addition to this he has provided the basics of several movies and has had a varying degree of involvement in their content and development. He has written the text of some of the most important examples of graphic novels, he has written a body of work that occupies an important position in the world of fantasy, and he is a writer of such ability that he transcends limitations of genre. The versatility of Neil Gaiman is impressive. He forthrightly asserts that it is meant to be read aloud and he measures its quality by the effectiveness with which audiences have received it.Ģ006, ISBN 0-06-051522-8, $26.95, 360 pages But many of these pieces are in fact exceptionally good and the poetry, although Gaiman makes rather little of his poetry, is very good. ![]()
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