No More, No Less

[orikes]

"You lived what anyone gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime."
"No more, no less."

Sunday night I got Half-Blood Prince in my hands, but before I could dive back into Harry Potter's world, I needed to finish my journey through Morpheus' world. A friend was particularly kind enough to lend me all ten compilations. Sunday night I had to finish 'The Wake' before I could set off back to Hogwarts.

I'm honestly not sure what I was expecting out of the series. Of course I had heard of Sandman. Who can have an interest in comics and NOT have heard about it? I'd even read Neil Gaiman before. But this series was definitely not what I was expecting. It was far deeper and far better than I thought it would be and that's quite the good thing.

Gaiman is one of those authors who makes me feel slow. As much as I loved 'American Gods' and now the Sandman series, when I'm reading him I feel like I'm struggling to catch up to the rest of the class and understand what he's referencing. It doesn't have the pretentious feel that I get from some authors; those I end up putting aside and moving on. With Gaiman, though, he seems like he'd be an incredibly interesting person to talk to, but I'd be giving him a blank stare a good chunk of the time as he references things I know I should know, but somehow don't.

Either way, Sandman left me contemplative. So many themes and thoughts to mull over and consider. I'm babbling at this point, but having finished the series, I felt like I should comment. Read it if you get a chance.

(As a side note, I never did figure out who the unnamed god was supposed to be from American Gods. That's another reason I feel dumb reading Gaiman sometimes. I know there are things I should get that I just don't.)

Comments

[cori-chronicles.livejournal.com]

I need to reread them. I adore Gaiman, and I know just what you mean, I feel the same way. I haven't finished American Gods yet.

Scott always seems to know just what he's talking about, so maybe you should ask him. I don't know how Scott knows. I take my own things from Sandman that probably have nothing to do with Gaiman's intentions. I relate to delirium and death and adore dream, don't understand desire or despair really... scott is the epitome of destruction and that scares the bejesus outta me. destiny... well, that's too encompassing to ponder really.

I'm glad that you found them to be better than you hoped. That makes me happy. I'm not a superhero comic reader really, so this is more my cup of tea when it comes to comics. I like the nuances he puts in with heros and villains and philosophy and reasoning, logic, literature, modern culture... I get goose bumps talking about it! hehe.

I'm about 200 pages into HP6. We'll have to discuss that when you're done.