The Book Depository Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
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Description: Smoke and Mirrors : Paperback : Headline Publishing Group : 9780755322831 : : 19 Sep 2005 : An extraordinary collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction that will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul. The Book Depository Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780755322831
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Author: Reader
Rating: 5
Review: I love especially the story about the stray cat who fought the devil for the family who took it in, and the one about the foxes with two folklore stories involved, very poetically told, with a wonderful twist at the end.
Author: Mr Nobody
Rating: 2
Review: This is a mixed bag, as you might expect. There are a few good stories in here - in particular I thought Shoggoth's Old Peculiar and the reworking of Snow White were both witty and well executed - but there's a lot of dross in there too: Painfully teenage-sounding poems about vampires; embarrassingly bad efforts at soft porn and several stories which just don't seem to go anywhere at all. The competence of the writing is patchy too. I've read and enjoyed Gaiman's novels American Gods, Anansi Boys and Neverwhere, and in each of those I found the style and execution at least as important as the content. It was they way his prose flowed, and the manner in which he constructed the stories which kept me reading them. While that skill is evident in the best of the stories in this collection, in most of them you get a young writer who has not yet found his voice.
