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threemonkeysA couple of "not sure why" issues today. There are things which you think you will like. Things which have an attraction and yet you do not pursue them. Why? - "not sure why". Sometimes it just happens. Today I caught up with a couple of things I had bypassed the first time around.
I have a lot of Sandman stuff. Not just the graphic novels but a whole heap of other titles that Neil Gaiman has produced set in that universe. I cannot get enough of it really. And yet until today, I had not read The Sandman Book of Dreams. I think my reluctance was because the short stories contained within the volume are not written by Gaiman. Instead it is a collection of stories by well known authors edited by Gaiman and Ed Kramer. I am a bit dubious of the commitment that authors show in such collections - you tend to get a real quality mixture where many of the authors just do not "get" the setting. Not so here. The authors all seem to be friends of Neil (who may have more friends than anybody else on the planet) as well as being fans of the series. The result is a wonderful collection. Varied and yet faithful to the original. Trouble is, I only want more now.
I don't know why I never watched the TV series Absolute Power either. Satirical British comedy looking at the bastards who run advertising companies. Plus it stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. Normally I lap this type of thing up yet when it was on I barely glanced at it. I watched an episode today and it was brilliant. It did for the advertising industry what The New Statesman did for the Tory party. Now I just need to get more.
I have a lot of Sandman stuff. Not just the graphic novels but a whole heap of other titles that Neil Gaiman has produced set in that universe. I cannot get enough of it really. And yet until today, I had not read The Sandman Book of Dreams. I think my reluctance was because the short stories contained within the volume are not written by Gaiman. Instead it is a collection of stories by well known authors edited by Gaiman and Ed Kramer. I am a bit dubious of the commitment that authors show in such collections - you tend to get a real quality mixture where many of the authors just do not "get" the setting. Not so here. The authors all seem to be friends of Neil (who may have more friends than anybody else on the planet) as well as being fans of the series. The result is a wonderful collection. Varied and yet faithful to the original. Trouble is, I only want more now.
I don't know why I never watched the TV series Absolute Power either. Satirical British comedy looking at the bastards who run advertising companies. Plus it stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. Normally I lap this type of thing up yet when it was on I barely glanced at it. I watched an episode today and it was brilliant. It did for the advertising industry what The New Statesman did for the Tory party. Now I just need to get more.