Reviews
Reviews of Neil Gaimans books
"A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story about the impossibility of putting up with your relations especially if they happen to be Gods. Anansi Boys combines the anarchy of Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of spirit. Guaranteed to make all but the most committed arachnophobe feel gratefully towards spiders
Susanna Clarke
'Neil Gaiman is one of the few genuinely intelligent writers of what is generally described as "post-modern" fiction his work is thoughtful, wise, spiritually challenging and incredibly funny? From Gaiman, its a treasure, every word. I cant imagine a better way to start a holiday
Manda Scott, Church of England Newspaper
"Whizzing, twirling, erupting into dazzling cartwheels, firing off showers of multi-colored sparks, chortling to itself and muttering killer-diller one-liners, Anansi Boys draws the reader, ever more wide-eyed and amazed, into a world both feather-light and chockablock with mortal danger. Only Neil Gaiman could have brought this fraught enchantment into being, and the ongoing, ultimately revelatory travails of Fat Charlie Nancy display Gaimans remarkable imaginative powers at full stretch. This book is going to sail off the shelves
Peter Straub
"Brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic
Publishers Weekly
"Gaiman juggles several intersecting narratives expertly?blithely echoing numerous creation myths and folklore motifs, Terry Southerns antic farces, Evelyn Waughs comic contes cruels, and even here and there Muriel Sparks whimsical supernaturalism? Enormously entertaining throughout
Kirkus Reviews
"The author...gives us powerful deities Anansi is as charming and dangerous as he ought to be? A thoughtful, atmospheric novel
The Times
"A book its impossible not to love
Starburst
"Bizarre, bonkers?rather brilliant
Ian Hislop
"Gaiman is best-known for his Sandman series of graphic novels, but here he demonstrates an equally vivid ability to portray the mythic and the fantastic in comic prose...slapstick and verbal pyrotechnics are the primary motors of the book. The ?apparent effortlessness? of this sort of writing requires planning and execution of a very high order... Neil Gaiman is a very good writer indeed, and this is a very funny bedtime story
Daily Telegraph
"Exhilarating and terrifying
Independent
"This is the most accomplished of Gaimans novels thus far... Anansi Boys has charm going for it and a plot that pirouettes on a dime. Urbane and sophisticated
Time Out
"Part soap opera, part macabre fairy tale, part supernatural horror... Gaimans writing is as sharp as ever, full of flair and fun...his characters are huge and full-blooded... Often hilarious and just as often unsettling, Anansi Boys is a dark delight
SFX magazine
"Lenny Henry?is absolutely the perfect choice to read Anansi Boys? An absolutely top-notch performance, one that makes a terrific book even better
Publishers Weekly
"[Neil Gaiman is the] literary equivalent of a sexy rock star
Scotland on Sunday
"Exuberantly inventive
Kirkus Reviews
"A writer of rare perception and endless imagination
William Gibson
"American Gods manages to reinvent, and to reassert, the enduring importance of fantastic literature itself in this late age of the world. Dark fun, and nourishing to the soul
Michael Chabon
"This is a fantastic novel...runs as precisely as clockwork, but reads as smoothly as silk or warm chocolate Independent
"A jaw-droppingly good, scary epic positively drenched in metaphors and symbols... As Gaiman is to literature, so Antoni Gaudi was to architecture
Midweek
"Combines fantastical figures with human heroes and once again proves Gaiman to be one of the leading writers of fiction and mythology
Punch
"Delightful... Inventively horrific... The chimerical stuff of nightmare and daydream
USA Today
"Here we have poignancy, terror, nobility, magic, sacrifice, wisdom, mystery, heartbreak, and a hard-earned sense of resolution a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling
Peter Straub
"Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long hard look into the soul of America
The Western Mail, Cardiff
"An imaginative fantasy
Mail on Sunday
"Gaiman has a rich imagination?and an ability to tackle large themes
Philip Pullman
"American Gods is some kind of miracle. Gaiman has managed to tell the tallest of tales in the most heart-rending and believable fashion, despite the storys truly mythic scale. It is an important, essential book
Jonathan Carroll
"Will astonish you on every page, and at the same time have you believing every word. Youll stay up late to finish and then be sorry when its done
Tim Powers
"Like the best of everything, it leaves you wanting more
Starburst
"A very fine and imaginative writer
The Times
"A new fairy tale about a young mans hunt for his hearts desire, told in clear, rolling prose
Guardian
"Like all fairytales, the prose is beautifully simple while the sheer density of the mythology is breathtaking
The List
"Stardust is charming in every sense of the word, and deeply satisfying
Time Out
'Neil Gaiman is a treasure house of story and we are lucky to have him in any medium. His fecundity, coupled with the overall quality of his work is both wonderful and a little intimidating'
Stephen King
"Neil Gaiman once again excels himself
Buzz
"A writer of extraordinary imagination
The Times
"A clever and bewitching collection of modern fairy tales, every bit as disturbing as the childrens originals
The Big Issue in the North
"[Smoke and Mirrors] showcases his mastery of pastiche, his eclecticism and his knack for the juxtaposition of incongruous notions Independent
"Funny, scary and perverse by turns? A class act and a rich and interesting read
Time Out
"One of our most entertaining storytellers
Kirkus Reviews
"A writer of rare perception and endless imagination
William Gibson
"The best of these tales are exquisitely constructed
The Times
"You long for writers like Neil Gaiman; his vision is so personal and idiosyncratic. And unexpected?
Chris Carter
'The sort of book Terry Pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with Franz Kafka'
Wired
"Exuberantly inventive ... a postmodernist punk Faerie Queen
Kirkus Reviews
"Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix
Clive Barker
"I didnt ever want this book to end? Hunter, Islington, Door these characters are part of my life now? Im over the moon about this book Tori Amos
"A writer of rare perception and endless imagination
William Gibson
"Delightful... Inventively horrific... It draws equally from George Lucas, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and John Milton... The chimerical stuff of nightmare and daydream
USA Today
"Excellent... [Gaiman creates] an alternate city beneath London that is engaging, detailed and fun to explore
Washington Post
"Gaiman is a master? Nobody in his field is better than this
Peter Straub
"A dark contemporary Alice in Wonderland? Imaginative, well-crafted [and] highly visual
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Consistently witty, suspenseful, and hair-raisingly imaginative
Kirkus Reviews
"Excellent escapist fare
Booklist
"Thrilling
USA Today