Neil Gaiman, reading a eulogy for Amanda Palmer

[MMluvver]

Who the hell is Amanda Palmer?

[anxietydown]

@MMluvver His wife.

[blackholenebula1]

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman belong to a cult that opposes free speech and free movement. Scientology runs prison camps for its members, litigates enemies into silence and is responsible for suicides and suspicious deaths worldwide. Gaiman grew up being audited and intimidated himself and is used to lying. He may not even realize he’s a hypocrite. Scientology persecutes gay men and woman, by supporting Prop 8 in CA along with so many crazy scams and crimes I can’t list here.

[Cabochon1360]

Well, he's my doppleganger, but with hair and a career!

[sstrictmachine]

Okay, for those uninformed, this is a BIG DEAL. Neil Gaiman has been a writer of popular stories for a long while ,(most of his stories are goth staples) such as The Sandman (comics,) Death: The High Cost of Living, and :The Time of Your Life, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and numerous other works. He's contributed to both Mirrormask and to the movie Coraline. I was a fan of Dresden Dolls and Neil Gaiman seperately before the vid, This business makes me quite happy!

[sefrankie]

he sounds like severus snape. fact.

[Nina9020992]

@sefrankie Thank you! I am not the only one. :P

[shift0]

@sefrankie there's definitely something slightly Alan-Rickman-like about him

[PyroPrincess33]

I could listen to him talk forever ^^

[PainMonkey]

Note to self-don't hang out with Neil Gaiman for more than a fortnight.

[totheterrorist]

Would anyone mind posting the text? It's still hard for me to translate what I hear and I'd love to know the bautiful things I believe he's saying, i'd be very grateful!

[maevecamplisson]

OHGOD this is so awesome

[catlover1001]

bubblegum cards! ♥

[harlequin2262]

Ones sort of following the Witches of Lancre, another the City Watch, another Tiffany Aching and another, Moist Von Lipwig.

None of the books really need any of the others to make sense, but the later ones do have a bit more history behind them. Long story short, read through some blurbs, and see which one sounds catchy. The Pratchett Archive, or L-Space has good summaries and quote pages for all of the books, so you could get a bit of a cross section from there.

[Cabochon1360]

Just started reading his anthology, "Smoke and Mirrors"; excellent stories.

[Cabochon1360]

@Cabochon1360 Well, I was irritated to find that Gaiman and I both wrote stories about a troll under a bridge, and that we each wrote a story with the same idea about Santa Claus. Further irritated to find we were born on the same day in 1960. Neil Gaiman is my evil British twin.

"Snow, Glass, Apples" is a decent pastiche with a nice inversion -- well-written, but not really remarkable. He probably shouldn't have used the word "midget", which I believe was coined in the 19th century.

[CrunchTHEkangaroo]

@Cabochon1360 you just replyed to yourself! XD

[waelkyrie]

@Cabochon1360

he's clearly your doppleganger. you must exterminate- or would that mean you'd therefore be exterminating yourself? what a terrible dilemma.

re: I appreciate that you don't care for the term "midget"- it was coined by circuses in the sense of "freak" and is considered very derrogatory. It's not often you see someone (especially on YouTube) who is vocal about the insensitivity of using that word that seems to be so annoyingly popular.

[Cabochon1360]

Can't believe I haven't read this guy's books yet. Have to check them out.

[rkdbruyn]

Try reading Gaiman's "The Sandman" series. It's a comic book and available in bundles of each story arc.

[harlequin2262]

Sandman's great. Start part of the way in, though. It's like Pratchet, it gets a lot better once it's started.

Actually, scrub that. Start with the Graphic Novel of Neverwhere. It's brilliant.

[psyche8]

hmm maybe I should retry Pratchet then. I started a while back, because everyone is so frantic about him, but I didn't really liked or disliked it. Any recommendations with which book I should start?

I did love Sandman from the start on...

[harlequin2262]

@psyche8

Well, it depends on the sorts of themes you want. Each one is very different in that regard, and there are a few that stand out. Monstrous Regiment is a lot darker than the others, and Nation isn't Discworld at all, as well as being a bit darker. So if the comedy was the issue..

I started with Lords and Ladies. Wyrd Sisters is another good one, as is Men-at-Arms. They're both quite early in the series.

The first 6 or so books are far lower in quality than the later ones.

[harlequin2262]

@psyche8

I found Preludes and Noctures to be a bit dry, overly horror based, and too DC intergrated. The later ones, where he hit his stride were better, i think. Seasons on Mists onwards was pure gold.

The Truth, Moving Pictures, and Going Postal are pretty much stand-alone. Actually, look on the internet for this file. Discworld order of reading, or something like that. It outlines the story runones and psudo-series in a graph form. There's about 3-5 'series' inside discworld.

[Turambar88]

@psyche8 My personal favourite thread of Discworld books are the City Watch books starting with Men at Arms I think. You might want to check out Good Omens too, Terry Pratchett and Neil co-wrote it. Can't go wrong there.

[TWIB627]

He;s absolutely amazing. Read Neverwhere.

The Sandman is addictive, and there are so many issues D:

[MmmNoodles]

I love Neil GaimanxAmanda Palmer. If they had a baby it would probably be Jesus.

[FerEu100]

LOL

[redgirlinbluedresses]

@MmmNoodles Well, they're getting married, so perhaps the second coming is upon us :)

[b0rk3d]

Actually they are dating now. So she's his bf, and Neil Being like 10000000000000x bigger deal than Amanda Palmer.

[kidshady45]

i like them both but he just works in a different medium.

[BillysEvilCuzan]

i saw a movie he wrote the sceenplay for called "the mirror mask' as soon as i seen it i wrote to the dresden dools site or to amanda's page about it........ now i feel like an ass cuz she already knew him ........ im so fucking slow..... LOL.... but all things are in there own time

[waerfeles]

@BillysEvilCuzan It's just MirrorMask

[InnanaAscending]

Who is this boring old guy on every Amanda Palmer site? He is annoying as fuck!

[bluecod]

I love how you can totally tell the people who've never read Neil Gaiman.

[EmilySnicket14]

His voice is freaking epic.

[reubenmain]

Such an amazing collaboration.

If you'd call it that.

Gaiman's books are stunning. Amanda is stunning.

Why don't I hang out with them daily!!

[ThedaOtticey]

EVERYONE should read Neil's book "Neverwhere"-everyone!! It is the MOST amazing book ever!

[Rachciah]

that was to awsome for words... <3

thank you :D

[NymphetamineQueen]

I think I'm in love.

:D

[RygeltheXVIth]

Oh, I was hoping someone would video and post this....thankyou! :-)