{"id":10369,"date":"2007-02-02T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/02\/book-review-the-neil-gaiman-audio-collection.html"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:31:59","slug":"book_review_the_neil_gaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/book_review_the_neil_gaim.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060732989?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Click here to go to Amazon\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection, by Neil Gaiman\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0060732989.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060732989?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Click here to go to Amazon\"><strong>The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection<\/strong><\/a><\/i><strong> by Neil Gaiman<\/strong> (2004) <\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<strong>Overall<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Good (4 stars out of 5)\" height=\"18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars4.jpg\" width=\"78\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\nStory<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Faboo (5 stars out of 5)\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars5.jpg\" width=\"97\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nRe-Readability<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Good (4 stars out of 5)\" height=\"18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars4.jpg\" width=\"78\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\nAudio<\/td>\n<td width=\"90\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Good (4 stars out of 5)\" height=\"18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars4.jpg\" width=\"78\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A marvelous and charming collection of tales written and read by Neil Gaiman, including &#8220;The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish,&#8221; &#8220;The Wolves in the Walls,&#8221; &#8220;Cinnamon&#8221; and the poem &#8220;Crazy Hair.&#8221;  It also includes an interview with him by his daughter.  The stories are delightfully offbeat, and Gaiman&#8217;s reading is down to earth, playful, and pleasant.  <\/p>\n<p>We listened to this on our car trip back from California, and it definitely helped pass the time &#8212; though, alas, only a short time.  The only drawback to this is that the single CD only runs 50 minutes, barely enough time to survive a traffic jam &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection by Neil Gaiman (2004) Overall Story Re-Readability Audio A marvelous and charming collection of tales written and read by Neil Gaiman, including &#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12484,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/book_review_adventures_in.html","url_meta":{"origin":10369,"position":0},"title":"Book review:  Adventures in the Dream Trade, by Neil Gaimam","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Apr-08 4:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an odd little volume -- odd in ways not the way you'd normally think of as a Gaiman book being odd -- but quite enjoyable and eminently suited...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":32659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/neil-gaiman-news.html","url_meta":{"origin":10369,"position":1},"title":"Neil Gaiman news","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Mar-13 11:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On all sorts of cool projects.Reshared post from +Shannon TurlingtonAmerican Gods coming to HBO. 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