 This is one among several audiobooks. I've been listening to while driving on my 50th Street tour I've read Neil Gaiman before there was the one book Stardust, which I gave a soft recommendation to and There's been some short stories, which I've been half-and-half on The two that come to mind most prominently are Troll Bridge and the problem of Susan both of which are good, but they contain bizarre and uncomfortable sexual References and those being my initial exposure to his writing have led me to believe that That that's what he does The 24 pieces in this book however don't necessarily follow that model I say 24 pieces because they're not all Stories some of them are poems and some of them are poem-like stories But there are some good long prose fiction pieces in here not everything in the book is excellent But everything is good and the ones that are excellent are some of the best short fiction I've ever read that will stick with me forever in particular. I'll briefly describe two of them Number one the truth is a cave in the Black Mountains It takes place in a kind of medieval fantasy Scotland, I guess Where a dwarf hires a retired thief to take him on a journey across the Sea of Mists to a cave where people can supposedly find gold and bring out all they want, but they pay a price of Becoming a little more evil every time they bring gold out and then that turns out not to be entirely true But the story really is a beautiful and entirely new mythology it contains a lot of surprises and Most importantly for the audiobook which I recommend specifically in this case Neil Gaiman himself reads it and he does some really charming Scottish accents that I think should be heard The other story I want to mention is The sleeper and the spindle which is Gaiman's retelling of the sleeping beauty story It has been published independently as a picture book and again it is very different and very surprising and This is specifically an audiobook version that I strongly recommend Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen And then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron There's a link in the description below when you pledge at the $20 level I will send you a random science fiction book in the mail every month