I just read the short story about Shadow, the protaginist in American God, the story my Neil Gaimon.
I loved it.
I am really looking forward to the next installment, although it will probably be a while before he gets to it.
[ December 31, 2005, 06:16 PM: Message edited by: Kwea ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You know, this story didn't do a whole lot for me. I loved American Gods, so this was a bit of a surprise for me. I read it right when Legends II came out though, so it's been long enough that a reread might be in order. Maybe I'll like it better the second time around.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
BY the way. I met him. He's cool.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I liked it, although ti wasn't anything suprising...and I was a little miffed at Shadow for being so dense about the "party"... Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I got a different impression of him. I was in Boston for WorldCon last year, and a friend wanted to get a book signed by him.
So we're walking down the hall, trying to figure out where he'll be signing (we knew the time but were too lazy to look at a map). Anyway, we see Neil walking with his agent (he sticks out like a sore thumb with his 80s hair and denim jacket), so we decide to follow him to where he's going because we assume he's going to where he's supposed to be in five minutes.
We follow them into an elevator, and he looks down at the book my friend is carrying and says "Were you wanting to get that signed?"
"Yeah," she says, "we were just following you 'cause we're lost."
He just laughed, and we thought he'd pull out the sharpie we could clearly see he had in his breast pocket and sign it--there was easily time, as the elevator was stopping on every floor on the way down.
Instead, he just tells us where to go, and that he'll probably be ten minutes late because he has to run to his room. Then the four of us just spent the last minute or so of the elevator ride in an uncomfortable silence, staring at the doors.
I'm never surprised when someone who's met him tells me they think he's smug and arrogant.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Anyone else read this story?
I just read his new book, and I am looking forward to reading the next installment of AG....
Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
Err, so did it occur to your friend to actually ask him to sign it then and there? Not that he'd be under any obligation to do so anyway, but expecting mind reading on top of book signing seems a bit much.
Posted by WntrMute (Member # 7556) on :
I'm sorry, but all of these 'author' people just need to understand that they exist solely to entertain me with their books and signatures on demand. This idea that they are 'entitled' to a 'private life' is ridiculous, and I'll not stand for it.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Huh. I've read AG, and I own Legends II, but I haven't read that story. I'll have to go back and do that.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
He seemed like a cool sort of guy when I met him in Cambridge Poor dude had to sign stuff for hours. His hands must have hurt. I reckon he didn't have his special pen he likes to sign stuff with too. It's a cool pen.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
It was cool, although the tone was a little different, mph. I think there is a lot of potential in it though.
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