…think “Larry McMurtry”

Book review:

The View from the Cheap Seats

by Neil Gaiman (b1960)

New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016

522 pages

I realize it’s a bit outré to mention that I recently “discovered” the very satisfying writing style of Neil Gaiman.

Gaiman writes with panache about Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling’s horror (!) stories, Dracula, and more.

I’ve read The View from the Cheap Seats and loved it!

The “Four Bookshops” piece is rare earth for me. Reading Gaiman is giving me flavor and overtones of reading Larry McMurtry (viz., Literary Life: A Second Memoir).

Gaiman recounts this anecdote:

“Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. ‘If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” (15)

Gaiman also says “There’s a brotherhood of people who read and who care about books.” (29) He’s one of those folks, and so am I.

….viz., Fahrenheit 451

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“…and dipped in folly…”

only Poe knows how to say it…

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