Stardust
By John • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Audio Books, Printed BooksAfter watching the movie adaptation, I obviously went back to the source and listened to the audio version of Stardust written by Neil Gaiman. At the same time I also looked at the illustrated book.
This is a really good fantasy/fairy tale for adults. There are many scary scenes in this book, but it also contained many light hearted scenes. The style in which this is written is very poetic. I usually don’t care much about that style, I am not a literary guy, but in this book it really works.
I think listening to it read by Neil Gaiman made it even better, it just sounds really nice. There are so many characters in this story, all of them memorable. However many of them have a very small role, sometimes they are introduced and never seen again. I do wish that they would either have a bigger role, or just not introduced at all. Their presence wasn’t really needed for the plot.
Another little problem at the end, I though it was weird the way Tristran dealt with his real mother, Gaiman didn’t go into that at all, not even a brief mention.
Other than that, I thought this was a very good story, and the illustrations by Charles Vess were also excellent. His style is the quintessential fantasy art in my mind.
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