<div>I think <em>Anansi Boys</em> is his best novel, far tighter than <em>American Gods</em> (you can feel a lot of both Wolfe's and Lafferty's influences in those two novels I think). He is, though, like you've noted he acknowledged, a better 'storyteller' than 'writer' and best as a sort of artist-activist who gets great things known to diverse audiences. You can't help but like the guy.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Craig Brewer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnbrewer@yahoo.com" target="_blank">cnbrewer@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I tend to agree. He always seems best when he's doing something oblique, like collaborating or writing for varied formats. I don't think that's a bad thing because parts of Sandman stand up with the best sf writing. But he's always described himself more as a storyteller in something of an old fashioned sense rather tha "a writer," and I think that's apt.<br>
<br>I also think of him as a channeler of other things to broader audiences. That's not only because he always promos people I like, but even stuff like Sandman brought some "literary" stuff to comics, and it brought non-comics readers to graphic novels, etc. He makes people who don't like genre stuff...like genre stuff, and that's a good thing. He also just seems to me like a guy who "gets it" in all the right ways, both in terms of knowing what's good (anything he edits is worth the price) and in knowing what he does best for the most part.
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<div class="h5"><br><br>On May 4, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Antonin Scriabin <<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com" target="_blank">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div></div></div>
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<div>Neil Gaiman rubbed shoulders with a bunch of big writers (Wolfe, Lafferty, Douglas Adams). I have liked his stuff for the most part, although American Gods and Neverwhere weren't anywhere near as good as Sandman or Fragile Things.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:56 AM, nate jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:natejarv@gmail.com" target="_blank">natejarv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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in faerie (ie, is Bax a changeling, or a human, and if he's a human is<br>one the twins from faerie his brother and the other a changeling meant<br>to pass as him?)<br><span><font color="#888888"><br>Nate.<br></font></span>
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