Aw, crap. I'm sorry.
It's okay. What's in a name?
Now that I think about it, there's a major plot spoiler at the end of the book, so don't read it out of sequence.
Oh, I don't plan to. I'm reading in order.
What is your childhood trauma?
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Polter-Cow - May 02, 2006 8:14:30 am PDT #9405 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Lola Walser - May 02, 2006 8:27:45 am PDT #9406 of 10000
Madame, what you said to her was "squid", not "good morning".
Speaking of order of reading, where do "Death: the high cost of living", "Death: the time of your life", and the book about Goldie the gargoyle (when Goldie leaves the brothers--can't remember the title) fit within the 10 (?) volumes of the collected Sandman?
Steph L. - May 02, 2006 8:29:25 am PDT #9407 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I keep seeing new posts here and rush over, hoping it'll be DC OYL stuff.
Bah.
Polter-Cow - May 02, 2006 8:29:49 am PDT #9408 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hee! There's a book about Goldie?
Sorry, Tep. I've hijacked the thread.
§ ita § - May 02, 2006 8:32:10 am PDT #9409 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, that made me search eBay for a Goldie plush figure and find out that bidding on one ended yesterday.
Am sad.
Will search more.
Lola Walser - May 02, 2006 8:32:15 am PDT #9410 of 10000
Madame, what you said to her was "squid", not "good morning".
Oy, sorry, I got caught up in the Sandman posts.
There's a book about Goldie?
Yes, and it's excellent! Some of the best graphics in Sandman too.
Dana - May 02, 2006 8:33:49 am PDT #9411 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Both of the Death books come after Sandman, don't they?
Mr. Broom - May 02, 2006 8:40:36 am PDT #9412 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Yes, but there's nothing in them that spoils anything after "A Game of You."
Lola Walser - May 02, 2006 8:53:04 am PDT #9413 of 10000
Madame, what you said to her was "squid", not "good morning".
a Goldie plush figure
That story made me pick up the pencils for the first time in yonks and draw a few pictures (of Goldie)--which admission makes me feel like a sappy sheep.
Both of the Death books come after Sandman, don't they?
"Time of your life" follows "The high cost of living", but I forget if the characters' story preceeds or intercuts with the one in Sandman.
eta: ok, Mr. Broom. So, advise to read them after "The game of you".
Atropa - May 02, 2006 9:51:14 am PDT #9414 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, oh, and I must say: CHEER UP, EMO ENDLESS. "I've got this key I don't want, and it's causing me so much paaaaaain. I'm going to wear my black clothes and sit in the dark and broooooood."
(Dream isn't emo, he's goth, dammit. Or is that just my age showing, and emo is the new goth?)
There are parts of A Game of You that I love beyond all reason, including the part about how little girls dream that their lives aren't their lives and their parents aren't really their parents; they're lost princesses waiting to go back to their magical lands. (I'm paraphrasing, of course, and probably somewhat badly.)