The Shrine

PostPosted:**Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:46 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.superherohype.com/index.php? ... id=1774</a>

Neil Gaiman to direct Death. One of his sandman spinoffs that he wrote....Hell fucking yes</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:28 pm**

PostPosted:**Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:40 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I tried getting ahold of you but you were never home dammit.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:19 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I've never read Sandamn, but I've read two of his books: Neverwhere and American Gods. Of the two, I think American Gods is the best. He's a good writer, a good storyteller, and has a great imagination. I'll watch any movie he directs or writes.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:48 pm**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Sandman was cool, but I was tempted to slit my own throat during various points of American Gods. However by the end, it managed to raise itself from bad, to merely "boring with badly executed ideas". Somehow it won a Hugo Award...</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:53 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You're a moron. officially you are now a moron. I am deeply offended by that comment. It hurts me down deep</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:44 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Does it hurt you more then that time I killed you brought you back from the dead and then placed you back like I never did anything to you?!</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:56 am**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>It's now official? Do I get a t-shirt too? :) I'm almost positive there's something I missed about this book, because all the acknowledged smart people loved it (they gave it the weighty honor like the Hugo Award after all).</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:21 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I wasn't staying in Toronto after all but I ended up having to go to a client out in Mississauga and stayed at my aunt's in Milton. You still around?</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:44 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>"So," he asked. "How's death?"

"Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."</div>

The Shrine

Neil Gaiman to direct Death. One of his sandman spinoffs that he wrote....Hell fucking yes

Neil Gaiman to direct Death. One of his sandman spinoffs that he wrote....Hell fucking yes

I really dug the concept of gods existing simply because people believed in them. And I liked the somber tone the book had. A favorite line that I still remember from the book: