the view from the cheap seats by neil gaiman

I want to read it again and again and again. His fiction characters are as real as Lou Reed, Amanda Palmer, Tori Amos and Terry Pratchett. If there were ever a doubt that these (and all of his other) characters were real, this book will rid you of it.

The Ocean at the end of the Lane's protagonist making us question what's really happened or hasn't. I've loved his complex characters who spiral down their own emotional and thoughtful rabbit holes: Fat Charlie discovering his own strength. I've loved his stories, how he pulls magic from seams you didn't even realize were there. Every book I read of his, I've liked more than the previous. This is the most surprising and touching book I've ever read. The very best View is from the Cheap Seats Illuminating and incisive, witty and wise, The View from the Cheap Seats explores some of the issues, subjects, and people that matter most to Neil Gaiman - and offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. And he includes a moving essay on the plight of Syrian refugees in a United Nations camp in Jordan. He offers unlikely perspectives on subjects as diverse as The Bride of Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Batman, Tori Amos, Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants, and Amanda Palmer. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Diana Wynne Jones, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, and his dear friend, Terry Pratchett. Neil ponders the truth of fiction and the power of stories (and why we tell them) and offers his own profiles of and insights into writers who have influenced him, including C. In prose that's analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, Neil explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to) authors past and present music storytelling comics bookshops travel fairy tales America inspiration libraries ghosts and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts his experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood. Some of them are serious, and some of them are frivolous, and some of them are earnest, and some of them I wrote to try to make people listen.' It is, instead, a motley bunch of speeches and articles, introductions and essays. Now The View from the Cheap Seats brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of his outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart.Īs Neil explains, 'This book is not 'the complete nonfiction of Neil Gaiman'. An enthralling collection of nonfiction pieces on myriad topics - from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories to comics, films, and literature - observed in award-winning number-one New York Times best-selling Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style.Īn inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his fiction.

The view from the cheap seats by neil gaiman