Stardust

Author: Neil Gaiman

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02/28/09

[Not so much an actual review as it is a collection of thoughts prompted by the book.]

I will admit to having seen the movie before reading the book and while I really like the film adaptation and believe that it is about as good as a movie based off of a book can be, I like the book better. (This is nearly always the case for me, but I like the movie a lot, so I thought I should specify.)

This book is fantastic. (At some point I'm going to have to review a book that I didn't really like, I know, but today is not that day.) I like the fairytale-for-adults feel that it has. I love the witty and sarcastic tone in which Gaiman writes. I get a kick out of the chapter titles. Without spoiling anything I will say that I like the end and prefer it to the changes that the movie made. (Though I will say that I think that the movie's ending works better for the story it told.)

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that this is the first Neil Gaiman book that I ever finished.

This is my favorite line from the book. Also, everyone now knows just how bad I am at Photoshop.