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vcmwI just came back from listening to Mr. Neil Gaiman read the last chapter of the Graveyard Book here in St. Paul. It was organized by the Red Balloon bookstore.
I hadn't read the book or listened to the chapters read aloud before I went. I read chapters 1-6 while waiting for the event to start, heard chapter 8, and then read chapter 7 on the bus ride home. It was fun in that order, which is an accomplishment, I think.
Non spoiler-y (I think) thoughts:
Because my first exposure to Ghouls was in Tanith Lee's Delirium's Mistress, which has a city in a desert inhabited by ghouls that like to eat aged rotten people, I'm afraid that Ghulheim in my brain is that city.
The sequence of events in Chapter 7 reminded me, for some reason, of the book Pest Control by Fitzhugh. I think it's because that was the first book I read where an inexperienced hero uses his knowledge of the environment around him as a weapon.
And it seems to me that the borders policed by the group of sort-of heroes are the borders of the fields that lie beyond the fields we know. But only because I recall that Gaiman likes Dunsany.
Oh, and I thought that the reveal for the chapter with dancing was perfectly done.
I hadn't read the book or listened to the chapters read aloud before I went. I read chapters 1-6 while waiting for the event to start, heard chapter 8, and then read chapter 7 on the bus ride home. It was fun in that order, which is an accomplishment, I think.
Non spoiler-y (I think) thoughts:
Because my first exposure to Ghouls was in Tanith Lee's Delirium's Mistress, which has a city in a desert inhabited by ghouls that like to eat aged rotten people, I'm afraid that Ghulheim in my brain is that city.
The sequence of events in Chapter 7 reminded me, for some reason, of the book Pest Control by Fitzhugh. I think it's because that was the first book I read where an inexperienced hero uses his knowledge of the environment around him as a weapon.
And it seems to me that the borders policed by the group of sort-of heroes are the borders of the fields that lie beyond the fields we know. But only because I recall that Gaiman likes Dunsany.
Oh, and I thought that the reveal for the chapter with dancing was perfectly done.
