{"id":5423,"date":"2010-10-22T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2010-10-22T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T00:22:29","slug":"on-winter-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5423","title":{"rendered":"On Winter Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have never read The Sandman<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It's a curious lapse in my comic book reading. I generally like Neil Gaiman's other comics work (though I was cold on 1602<\/i>). The idea of a Lord of Dreams is compelling. I love Wesley Dodds, the superhero Sandman of the 1930s (and I religiously read Sandman Mystery Theatre<\/i>), and I read Sandman Midnight Theatre<\/i>, the crossover story between Neil Gaiman's Dream and Matt Wagner's Dodds. (And I have a faded and worn t-shirt of Teddy Kristiansen's artwork from the story.) I bought and read the first Death<\/i> mini-series — and really liked it.<\/p>\n

But The Sandman<\/i> itself?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I've never read it.<\/p>\n

Oh, I started it. Once. I remember picking up my brother's trade paperback edition of the first volume, Preludes & Nocturnes<\/i>, and starting on it many years ago. I don't remember getting very far<\/i> in it. I don't remember why I stopped. In retrospect, it probably doesn't matter.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless! DC Comics is reprinting The Sandman<\/i> again, in a new trade paperback edition, with the recolored artwork used for the Absolute Sandman<\/i> collections, printed on glossy paper. (DC's Vertigo collections have traditionally been printed on non-glossy paper, probably to save money.)<\/p>\n

I picked up the first volume, Preludes & Nocturnes<\/i>, at work this week. Next week, A Doll's House<\/i> arrives in my hands. At some point after that, I'll pick up the third volume, Dream Country<\/i>. (The fourth, Season of Mists<\/i>, is due out at the end of January.)<\/p>\n

We'll see how it goes. Perhaps I'll even pick up Mike Carey's Lucifer<\/i>, a sequel series to The Sandman<\/i>, when I'm done with The Sandman<\/i>.<\/p>\n

That's not the sum totality of my winter reading plans.<\/p>\n

I've ordered some books on writing from BookCloseouts.com<\/a> to read, get ideas from, hone some skills, fine-tune my language, that sort of thing, including Fowler's Modern English Usage<\/i>, which is the sort of book that would be nice simply to have around, even if it's not often referenced.<\/p>\n

Another book I'm looking forward to reading in the coming months is The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York<\/a><\/i>, which is about the Moon Hoax<\/a> of 1835, where New York City newspapers ran a series articles about the discovery of life and civilizations on the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n

And, of course, other books as they appear.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to reading The Sandman<\/i>. I hope I like it; otherwise, I'll have several trade paperbacks in search of a good home… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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I have never read The Sandman. It's a curious lapse in my comic book reading. I generally like Neil Gaiman's other comics work (though I was cold on 1602). The idea of a Lord of Dreams is compelling. I love Wesley Dodds, the superhero Sandman of the 1930s (and I religiously read Sandman Mystery Theatre),Continue reading “On Winter Reading”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[4111,4092,481,101,4102],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-astronomy","tag-comic-books","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-plinky","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}