Saturday, June 19, 2010

A Madman's Way of the Words and the Worlds

"You know, ennui is insufficient reason to suicide."

I didn't know until I read Neil Gaiman's works.

Aside from the weekly manga updates online, Neil Gaiman's works are
one of the few things that persuade me that every breath I take is still
worth the ennui. But to you, it might be something like, music? study? or
late night news? something stupid like that too, huh. But Neil Gaiman's
work of arts are not only that but more, like adding raelity to the hope of
the good life and decreasing the weight of life's utter despair. But maybe
it's just me.

I'd like to enumerate NEIL GAIMAN'S Works of Art that I know of:

Sandman comic book series. This one is a comic book of 75 issue mostly
about the personification/deification of DREAM and his family the
Endless, namely; Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium and the late
Destruction. I hear they're making this one a movie, I hope so.

American Gods. Well the first novel of Gaiman's that i've read, after the
first time i read it, i borrowed it, and gave it back months late, and then
borrowed it again for awhile, i thought about just taking it, you know not
giving it back, cause the book was just so awesome! But i still valued my
honor and i gave back the book to it's owner. And yeah, this one's about
long forgotten Gods reincarnated and the upcoming war between them
and the modern Gods. The old Gods were the Norse, Egyptian, Greecian
and the like, guess the other Gods? Yep, they were Technology, Mass
Media and etc.
Good Omens. This one Gaiman co-writed it with another author, but it
still reads like him though. The maggots, particularly the maggots. The
Anti-Christ is just a kid and the Armaggedon is coming while an Angel
and Demon work together to stop it consulting a book of (very accurate)
prophecy written by a witch centuries ago. Fun read, if you want to laugh
at humanity at it's foibles on how, inevitable and unresistable a deed, an
act, a sin is.

Anansi Boys. Now, this one I like. As a teen, I can relate to Fat Charlie
Nancy's embarrassment about his father, but it doesn't stop me from
laughing out loud at his clumsiness. I love his brother Spider though. A
story that is about family and brotherhood and magic and self-confidence
and songs.

Coraline & Beowulf. Coraline story and plot written by Gaiman, Beowulf
script written by Gaiman. Awesomeness speak for it self in the big
screen. Watch and be awed.

Fragile Things & Smokes and Mirrors. This two are collection of short
stories and poems written by Neil Gaiman. Interesting read. Extremely
interesting.

Neverwhere & Stardust. Neverwhere I have not a chance to read (im

broke) and Stardust is a novel that has been adopted to a movie, I hear.

That ends my Neil Gaiman litany. And so's my post.

Good to see y'all.