![]() ![]() This is one of the best examples of that. One of the best things about Gaiman is how he uses folklore and myth to tell modern tales with modern sensibilities. To prove it, here are my personal top five from this collection, presented in the order that they appear, using memories that are fast approaching three years of age. I also thought the poems were generally better than those in Fragile Things, even though that collection has the poem Instructions, which is my favorite of all Neil's poems. I don't know that it has the highest concentration of great stories, but it was by far the most consistent, with none of the stories being bad or forgettable. ![]() I think this is one of the most even collections I've read. While looking back through the various short story collections I've read, I realized I hadn't wrote any sort of review for this one, even though I did write a review for Neil's second collection, Fragile Things. ![]()
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