Comments on: Neil Gaiman's "Graveyard Book," chapter-a-day reading video from the tour

By: salty_horse

salty_horse — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s possible to download the flash video and convert into an mp3 or other formats to listen to on an audio player. So it’s also a free audio book!

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve got a few audio collections of Neil Gaiman reading his own work, and I have to say that I prefer the readings of his children’s stories. There’s an inflection there, a hint of a smile here, that brings a little fun to it.

On a vaguely related note, I picked this book up at one of the massive bookstores a few days ago (along with Terry Pratchett’s Nation) as a birthday gift to myself. While Nation is in the Young Adults section, Graveyard Book is in the kid’s area. You know, with the teddy bears and toys. So far, the book isn’t anything like “See Ghost talk. Talk, Ghost, talk!”

By: kiltreiser

kiltreiser — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman is Jesus. FACT.

Seriously though, only the best and most worthy human beings ever make wonderful gestures like this, I just hope others are paying attention. Wish Neal Stephenson would do this with Anathem but then again that might take years to complete…

By: erudite_ogre

erudite_ogre — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#10: Hmmm. . . that would be cool! Although I want to read the book myself first. . . .

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Graveyard Book is in the kid’s area. You know, with the teddy bears and toys. So far, the book isn’t anything like “See Ghost talk. Talk, Ghost, talk!

That’s great! I hope that will inspire parents to read real books to their kids, not only rhyming ‘baby talk’ stories. And they can equally enjoy it because Gaiman never dumbs down his writing for children (another reason why he rules). To this day, ‘Coraline’ is still one of my favorite books. It’s gorgeous.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I just love Neil Gaiman and own most of his books. They’re the kind you just want to read several times over, like favorite candy.

I’ve never heard him narrate, but if he is as good at reading as he is at writing, I can’t wait to get started on this.

By: Church

Church — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil’s a very good reader, no doubt, but he’s no Spider Robinson.

By: Robotech_Master

Robotech_Master — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder how many wax cylinders it would take if Stephenson were to do an audiobook recording?

By: tim

tim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m enjoying ‘Fragile Things’ on my iPod right now; and despite being a longtime fan of Spider I think Neil is easily as good as a reader.

I agree with Cory about Pinkwater too – I loved his old radio show ‘chinwag theater’. Boy was I pissed when they canned that one – and from the tone of the email reply I got from him on asking about it, so was he.

By: Trent Hawkins

Trent Hawkins — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

He needs to do more of these readings. His Cthulhu short story(Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar) was fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1HElM_ECA

By: Ian Mackereth

Ian Mackereth — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, Neil’s good, and Spider is at least as good, but I’ve never heard anybody bring their own material to life as well as Harlan Ellison.
And being Harlan, he tells you this, of course…

A close second is Australia’s Terry Dowling, who can be surprisingly scary for such an affable bloke!

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Okay; listened to the first chapter and I’m hooked. I am very impressed by Neil’s reading (British accent being a huge plus, I’ll admit).

I’ll definitely keep up with it.

By: wolfiesma

wolfiesma — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It is nice to see some innovation on the book publishing/ distribution front.

By: Robotech_Master

Robotech_Master — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Holy crap.

Neil Gaiman linked to me.

And then BoingBoing quoted Neil Gaiman.

Holy crap.

By: stygyan

stygyan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just ordered Graveyard Book and Coraline… let’s see!

By: Mr_Voodoo

Mr_Voodoo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s see… awesome writer, great reader, attentive (almost to a fault) to his fans, musician, world traveler, probably an excellent father, lover of cats AND dogs, beekeeper… great hair… wearer of black (without pretension)…

So he’s pretty much the coolest guy ever. Thanks, Neil. I bet you can dance, too.

I’ll be over here in the corner, crying into my Absolute Sandman Vol. 3. Which is, of course, f-ing brilliant, btw.