Yes, but there's nothing in them that spoils anything after "A Game of You."
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
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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
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.)
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 02, 2006 9:52:49 am PDT #9415 of 10000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
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.)
Who da thunk it?
Atropa - May 02, 2006 9:54:32 am PDT #9416 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Who da thunk it?
Shush, you. I'll be over here with my talking animals. Did I mention that I'm going to be a fairy-witch-princess when I grow up?
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 02, 2006 9:57:08 am PDT #9417 of 10000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Nope, musta missed that one. Oh wait, there was that one time...
Mr. Broom - May 02, 2006 10:09:59 am PDT #9418 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
I can confirm the other part of that analysis: I was always a superhero's alter-ego as a young'n. Still waiting to spring into action.
Strega - May 02, 2006 10:29:59 am PDT #9419 of 10000
the part about how little girls dream that their lives aren't their lives and their parents aren't really their parents
See, that part bugged me. I never would have fantasized about something that, because I was terrified of strangers.
§ ita § - May 02, 2006 10:44:23 am PDT #9420 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I fantasized about that--it's why I stopped sucking my finger, because you never saw pictures of princesses sleeping that way.
Strega - May 02, 2006 2:13:43 pm PDT #9421 of 10000
I played at being Princess Leia and Princess Ardala, but I suspect that was different.
And I've spent all afternoon trying to remember some insanely elaborate lets-pretend games I played with friends. I think hanging around while my brother played D&D had a very strange effect on my recess activities.