The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-fiction
A Biography, Essays, Language book. We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we...
A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman.The View from the Cheap Seats draws together, for the first time ever, myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech he gave at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett, Lou Reed and Ray Bradbury, the collection offers a glimpse into the...
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In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place. Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction // Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction // Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more important lessons away from my Saturday tea time serial. For a start, I became infected by the idea that there are an infinite number of worlds only a foot step away. And another part of the meme was this- some things are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. And perhaps some people are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside as well. And that was only the start of it. Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction...
All I really knew about Neil Gaiman was that he was a comic book artist or maybe a graphic novelist, or something, and thus beneath my rarified literary tastes.In other words, I didn't know jackshit about Neil Gaiman. When I saw that several of my fellow Litsyites were reading and posting about his new collection of nonfiction, I decided... 3.5 Stars. I loved some of these essays and wondered why he included others. But his reading of the audiobook was stellar as always. I still want to marry his voice. , Gaiman . / , , , / . Terry Pratchett, . Highlight ,,essays - -Make Good Art ( ) Why Our Future Depends on Libraries,Reading and Daydreaming. , Gaiman . / , , , / . Terry Pratchett, . Highlight ,,essays - -Make Good Art ( ) Why Our Future Depends on Libraries,Reading and Daydreaming. 2 : "The world doesn't have to be like this.Things...
