What are you reading?

[mistercharlie]

Neil Gaiman's American Gods

I've been meaning to read this book for years and am just now getting to it. I am liking it so far.

[mehead]

Neil Gaiman's American Gods

I've been meaning to read this book for years and am just now getting to it. I am liking it so far.

my 10 yr. old daughter is reading this in class right now...

[mistercharlie]

Neil Gaiman's American Gods

I've been meaning to read this book for years and am just now getting to it. I am liking it so far.

my 10 yr. old daughter is reading this in class right now...

American Gods is much more adult-oriented than The Graveyard Book.

My wife just finished reading The Graveyard Book for a project she's doing for the kids at the Central Library downtown. That's kinda what made me finally pick up American Gods.

[Lifeboy]

Just started this last night. I was at the book store and looked up recommendations for a good science fiction novel, and this was recommended several times, so I went with it. After doing some more research once I got home, I saw where this is being made into a movie starring Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley that will be released in March 2013. Perfect timing.

[VDB]

I saw American Gods on the bookshelf at home recently, guess the wife picked it up. I haven't read any of his books but I think it's kind of funny seeing Neil Gaiman's name floating around considering I think of him as a comic book writer first, going back to my comic-nerd adolescence.

I am reading:



Follows the Chatham A's during a season in the Cape Cod League (amateur college summer baseball). If you're a baseball fan you'll like it. And in my case, having visited my grandparents on the Cape every summer growing up and going to CCL games, it's particularly enjoyable.

[mistercharlie]

I saw American Gods on the bookshelf at home recently, guess the wife picked it up. I haven't read any of his books but I think it's kind of funny seeing Neil Gaiman's name floating around considering I think of him as a comic book writer first, going back to my comic-nerd adolescence.

Hell, Sandman was so much more than just a comic book. In my opinion Sandman changed the face of comic book story telling from there on out.

[rowjimmy]

American Gods is pretty good.

[VDB]

I saw American Gods on the bookshelf at home recently, guess the wife picked it up. I haven't read any of his books but I think it's kind of funny seeing Neil Gaiman's name floating around considering I think of him as a comic book writer first, going back to my comic-nerd adolescence.

Hell, Sandman was so much more than just a comic book. In my opinion Sandman changed the face of comic book story telling from there on out.

Sorry, "graphic novel."  :-P

[mistercharlie]

I saw American Gods on the bookshelf at home recently, guess the wife picked it up. I haven't read any of his books but I think it's kind of funny seeing Neil Gaiman's name floating around considering I think of him as a comic book writer first, going back to my comic-nerd adolescence.

Hell, Sandman was so much more than just a comic book. In my opinion Sandman changed the face of comic book story telling from there on out.

Sorry, "graphic novel."  :-P

No, it was a comic book, it was just so much more.


The term "graphic novel" is misused a lot these days. A graphic novel is a story told in comic book format that is released all at once in a single book. The collected issues of comics are actually called "trade paperbacks". While Allen Moore's Watchmen is considered a 'graphic novel' nowadays, it was originally released as twelve separate issues, making it a "limited series" (a comic book series that has a planned number of issues to tell the story), and the collected editions of it are really just 'trade paperbacks'.

/end rant

[rowjimmy]

Usually, people use the term 'graphic novel' incorrectly because they don't want to admit to themselves or others that they are reading and *gasp* enjoying a comic book.

[mistercharlie]

Usually, people use the term 'graphic novel' incorrectly because they don't want to admit to themselves or others that they are reading and *gasp* enjoying a comic book.

The truth, this man speaks it.

[VDB]

Ah yes, trade paperback, I remember that term.

Side note, my parents are planning to move soon so they're trying to get all the kids' old crap out of the house. When I see them this weekend I will be taking possession of several boxes of my brother's and my old comics. I'm kinda looking forward to leafing through those to see how they'll have held up to the older me.

I can say that, on a trip home sometime during the last couple years, I pulled out an issue of -- it might have been -- Rob Liefield's Supreme, and I was a little surprised by how dumb it was.

[mistercharlie]

I can say that, on a trip home sometime during the last couple years, I pulled out an issue of -- it might have been -- Rob Liefield's Supreme, and I was a little surprised by how dumb it was.

Liefield was a cool artist, but a bad writer. He was better when he just did the artwork for x-force.

[susep]

I've read almost every  book out there except this, great, fun read so far. 

[mehead]

Started this yesterday and should finish it up tonight.  We own pretty much everything King has written yet I have never started this series.  Here we goooo......