read all the Sandman graphic novels

Not my favorite of the collections so far. The scattered / unrelated stories didn’t do much for me. Bring me more Dream and Death!

Probably my least favorite so far. The opening and the conclusion were outstanding, but the stuff in the middle in Barbie’s fantasyland was tedious. I know it set up that delightful ending, but it wasn’t worth it.

The best of the first four. I’m starting to really get into this whole Sandman thing. Good stuff.

I don’t know what type of person you have to be to write stories like Neil Gaiman. But, I’m guessing that you have to be incredibly passionate about human existence. I got lot’s of hope for all types of things when I finished reading this series. So now I feel that I can walk the world with more confidence in what decisions I make in my life. It’s that good.

I have to admit Neil Gaiman has helped inspire a lot of hope and thought in my life from this series so far. I’ll try to keep this a short entry. I think I have pulled a very meaningful lesson from one of the chapters from Worlds End, and that is that the dead should be treated with much respect, and also I am thankful for those in the profession of cleaning and tending the bodies of the deceased. So here and now I would like to thank those who do that job on a regular basis.

Love this series. I am going to get the remaining books from my local library and read the rest. I was going to buy one a year, but this way may be faster (and cheaper)!

I was finishing up my undergraduate studies, and reading non-class related stuff was one of my many escapes. Carlos, before he was my boyfriend, was my friend, and he lent me the first volume. I was hooked. I went through them like candy. They got me through a difficult time in my life—they were a tool in my recovery! Pretty soon, I was reading Gaiman’s other books. They are WORTH, Worth, WORTH reading!

I kind of liked these side stories more than the first two collections, and that last story with Death and the woman was quite moving (not to mention the opening story Calliope).

Now I’m remembering why I didn’t quite finish the series before, because while good, it isn’t so amazing that I wouldn’t rather read a novel than Sandman. But I’ll keep going.

This really is an impressive work of the imagination. I can vaguely remember some of these stories from the first time I read it, but there is some great work here. That horror story set at the diner, and then the switch of having Death show up in the last story here and Dream regain some sense of self. Great stuff.