Website review: Neil Gaiman - How To Talk To Girls ...
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revbobuk discovered 6 months ago- Brilliant short story by the master of contemporary fantasy, Neil Gaiman.
- DrBeer rated 6 weeks ago
- "It's the strangest thing about poetry -- you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language. You can hear Homer's Greek without understanding a word, and you still know it's poetry. I've heard Polish poetry, and Inuit poetry, and I knew what it was without knowing. Her whisper was like that. I didn't know the language, but her words washed through me, perfect, and in my mind's eye I saw towers of glass and diamond; and people with eyes of the palest green; and, unstoppable, beneath every syllable, I could feel the relentless advance of the ocean."
- naeri rated 3 months ago
- Mr Gaiman, you are a hack.
Have you ever heard the name Philip K. Dick? How about Stanisław Lem? Ursula LeGuin? William Gibson? Those were the people who dragged science fiction, a justly villified and ridiculed genre, out of the gutter of literature and pummelled it, brutally and mercilessly, until it learned to speak. Every now and then, it tells us something worth listening to.
You could probably do that with fantasy, Mr Gaiman, but you never tried and you never will, because that's what everyone loves you for.
You can evoke feelings. You can do nostalgia and happiness and surprise and fascination. But you're too terrified of breaching comfort zones, of using your little imaginary worlds as anything else than temporary hideouts for nice, sensitive, slightly antisocial people.
You could do this, Mr Gaiman. And you never fucking will.
You would be better off with a case of crippling, incurable aphasia. I sincerely hope you get it someday. - Mr Gaiman, you are a hack.
- 1zzy rated 4 months ago
- I'm not sure I understood it, but I'm sure I loved it! I will have to read it again and again...
- berecca rated 4 months ago
- Excerpt: She unclasped her hands, raised them above the table, spread her fingers. "You see?" The little finger on her left hand was crooked, and it bifurcated at the top, splitting into two smaller fingertips. A minor deformity. "When I was finished a decision was needed. Would I be retained, or eliminated? I was fortunate that the decision was with me. Now, I travel, while my more perfect sisters remain at home in stasis. They were firsts. I am a second.
- Tugger1013 rated 5 months ago
- definitely read this. it's as if it's a mixture of boyhood innocence, longing, desire, and complete mystery. Also not as cheesy as I just made it sound. beautiful.
- Charismachine rated 5 months ago
- This was so whimsical. I enjoyed reading it.
- twilightsense rated 5 months ago
- From the page: ""Come on," said Vic. "It'll be great." "No, it won't," I said, although I'd lost this fight hours ago, and I knew it. "It'll be brilliant," said Vic, for the hundredth time. "Girls! Girls! Girls!" He grinned with white teeth. "
- marqos rated 5 months ago
- So nice, and so seemingly effortless. Simple concept, executed in near-flawless fashion. No wonder it was nominated for a Hugo. I envy...
- artybius rated 5 months ago
- Hmm even though i think i know what she wasn't, I'm still not sure i'm correct on that matter,,, anyways good story, intressting
- SweetSarah rated 5 months ago
- That's a really fucked up story. It made me all tense with dreamy visions of expressionless wispy women washing through my mind. what a read.
