JD Biersdorfer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

JD Biersdorfer

The discovery of new and unexpected spaces drives this surreal fantasy — as do confrontations with deeply embedded memories on the uneven ground from childhood to adulthood. The book is one of Gaiman’s shortest… novels and it can be consumed in one sitting if nobody bothers you.

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Carrie Fisher doesn’t hold back on how she feels about life inside the “Star Wars” industrial complex.

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The novel is Gaiman’s Americana fantasia of a road-trip novel, written with a modern immigrant’s eye less than a decade after he moved from England to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

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“Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch” (1990) is Gaiman’s first, and arguably funniest, published novel... The tone of the book is very Monty Python-meets-“The Omen,” with snarky footnotes — a nice escape from the current state of the world.

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Richard’s adventures with a girl named Door as they dodge assassins in London Below feel like a gritty mash-up of Alice’s Wonderland and the London Underground map.

JD Biersdorfer

…for the cream of the crop, pick up “The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction” (2020). It’s an overflowing buffet that rounds up his best stories (as voted on by his fans) into one chunky but convenient volume, topped off with an introduction by Marlon James.

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Shorto’s vivid writing and deep research into the lives of people often left out of Manhattan’s familiar 17th-century origin story (including women, enslaved people and Native Americans) are illuminating.

JD Biersdorfer

Set in the mid-19th century, the book’s breezy narrative recalls William Goldman’s “The Princess Bride…” As with most quests to strange lands, there are complications along the way, but compared to some of Gaiman’s other work, “Stardust” is a light adventure.