When I first heard his name, I knew what was up. That did not give me any remote inkling of what was goïng on with Wednesday’s grand scheme.

I only know Neverwhere from the 2013 radiö play, but I loved it that way. Somehow I couldn’t get into the TV show, but I didn’t want to read the novel knowing it was adapted from the teleplay. But I loved the radiö play!

The only good thing about Chu’s Day (which is a wretched, “check please!” children’s book from an amazing writer) is that I get to read it to Il Signorino Giuseppe (who loves it… okay, I guess it’s a good children’s book that just has no appeal for adults) in Neil Gaiman’s voice.

I actually agree on all points except De Niro. It dœsn’t ruïn the movie for me, but it just seems like he’s doïng a so-so impression of a Robin Williäms impression of a cross-dressing gay man. His performance as the public Shakespeare persona is fine (love the bargaining with Gervais scene!), but I end up sort of…

Also: How to Train Your Dragon

Pokémon was exactly where I split from kids’s entertainment. I used to watch all the after-school shows (Disney Afternoon, the Spielberg stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs, TMNT), and then I stopped and just a year or two later looked at the schedule and was surprised to see one channel was playing back-to-back Pokém…

Thank you for your fellow support of the Lost Vikings franchise.

It made me very sad to see that we were done with the “L”s and neither Lost Vikings (the greatest videö game(s) ever made) made the list.

I really liked the third one when I watched it when it came on Netflix recently. Except for the Devil Dinosaur camö. I may never have any idea what was goïng on with that.

No, that’s a worthy anecdote for sure. I loved them too, but I’ve only read them once. Il Signorino Giuseppe is 3 1/2, tho, so I’ll be able to read them again as I read them to him before too long…

I recall liking the adaptation when I saw it in the cinema at age 4, so for what that’s worth mebbe it’s actually okay despite its reputation? I hope you like them enough to read the rest of the series!

And Blue Bloods! Woooooooooooo!

Just finished listening to The Art Forger with La Signora Giuseppe, which I had my doubts about (definitely more her taste than mine), and thus one or two romance-novel like sections were a little much for me, but made sense in context. There was much more of the caper/crime and art history stuff that I really liked.

From Hell is one of two books (both by Moore) that were so good that, having started reading them elsewhere (library and while staying with a friend) that I had to buy them just so I could finish. V for Vendetta was the other.

House of the Spirits is (tied for*) my favorite book, and the movie is not-so-great. I think it starred all those anglos because it was about more anglo-looking Spanish-derived aristocracy. Antonio Banderas (who ironically, I think, is Spanish) plays a more Native-American-type Latino. I am not defending any of those…

I just read Batman/Ninja Turtles and it was, like, exactly what you’d expect. hard to be really passionate about, but can’t fault it for anything. I still want to read the TMNT/Ghostbusters one (and the Star Trek/Green Lantern one and…), but I feel like I need something a little more seriöus in between.

From Book of Three you are not moving on directly to The Black Cauldron? Is that the way you read series (I read some like that; for example, I am partway thru both the Chaos Walking and All the Wrong Questions series not because I don’t want to get back to them, but I just am not ready yet), or do you not want to…

I recently read The Night Watch, as someöne who’s basically only read the DT books and I loved it. Altho I thought the story from which the collexion gets its name was a little pointless, especially compared to some of the jewels elsewhere in the book.

By climax, I assume you mean what happens when the narrative actually arrives at the day of the Kennedy assassination, right? I loved that part. It could’ve ended right there and I’d’ve preferred that.

Ocean at the End of the Lane is the only one I haven’t liked. Strangely, it’s th’only one my older brother had read, and he really liked it. Aside from that, I’ve thought everything (give or take a few stories and a good portion of the back half of Sandman) was wonderful. The only one I haven’t read is Odd and the…