{"id":638,"date":"2008-12-06T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=638"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:35:44","slug":"gaiman_graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/gaiman_graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaiman, Neil: <cite>Graveyard Book, The<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations are a funny thing. I had middling expectations for <strong>Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <cite>The Graveyard Book<\/cite><\/strong>, and hadn&#8217;t rushed to read (or even buy) it when it first came out. But then I saw reviews from friends who all loved it, quite uniformly so, and I found my expectations being raised.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect I&#8217;d have been happier if I&#8217;d kept my expectations as they were. <cite>The Graveyard Book<\/cite> is entertaining, certainly, and has the sure touch in the details that I&#8217;ve come to expect from Gaiman&#8217;s works. (After all, a story about a boy raised in a graveyard by ghosts (and one other) is entirely up his alley.) But perhaps because of the deliberately episodic nature, I was underwhelmed by what there was of a plot; and since that&#8217;s what the book closes on, it can&#8217;t help but color my overall opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons may be odious, but I still liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/07\/gaiman_neil_cor.php\"><cite>Coraline<\/cite><\/a> better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations are a funny thing. I had middling expectations for Neil Gaiman&#8217;s The Graveyard Book, and hadn&#8217;t rushed to read (or even buy) it when it first came out. But then I saw reviews from friends who all loved it, quite uniformly so, and I found my expectations being raised. I suspect I&#8217;d have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/gaiman_graveyard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaiman, Neil: <cite>Graveyard Book, The<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,48,15],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-hugo-nominees","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-gaiman-neil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}