M Is for Magic | Neil Gaiman | New and Old Stories make an excellent introduction

M Is for Magic | Neil Gaiman | A good primer for young adult readers, but...

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M Is for Magic

	M Is for Magic Neil Gaiman HarperCollins, 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you.

Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers?but always embrace the unexpected:

A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party. A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it. A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living. A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.

These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time.

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New and Old Stories make an excellent introduction

This collection, like Smoke and Mirrors before it, is both a wonderful introduction to Neil Gaiman and a delightful treat for those who already know him. The short stories collected here are not all brand new (Chivalry, Troll Bridge), but there's some 2006 and 2007 short stories you may not have read before.

Regardless, the tone and style provides a great example of this master writer's skill and range. If you've been wondering why people make a fuss over Gaiman, start here.

A good primer for young adult readers, but...

Hardcore Gaiman fans will find little new to love in this release. It'd make a great way to introduce younger readers to Gaiman's style, but most of the stories here have been recycled from his other short story collections, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions and Fragile Things. I do, however, appreciate the homage to Ray Bradbury (R Is for Rocket).

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Not exactly satisfying, but....

Ever since the "Sandman" happened, Neil Gaiman has been 'hip' & 'hot'. The symphony of enthusiasm for his works reached a crescendo with the "American Gods", which had propelled me to buy this book. But, this book was quite below-par in terms of the impressions that a reader is bound to have after reading them. There are a few cute stories that you might feel like going through again & again, like "Chivalry" (an old lady and her finding of 'Holy Grail'). There are stories which just make you feel like a dumb for forking out good money to buy such stuff, e.g. "How to sell the Ponti Bridge". There are wretched stories like "Jack-in-the-box" and "Troll Bridge" which pushes you to a point where you have just missed the train (of meaning). But, there are stories like "October in the Chair" which stops you at whatever you had been doing. If you like to discover jewels in a heap of mundane, go for this book, esp. in this beautiful edition, so that you may enjoy the quest.

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