reading Neil Gaiman's "Stardust" - which is a book that I can honestly call delightful. I don't know that I have ever called anything delightful ever, and I blame this on an astonishing lack of garden parties to attend (I assume that if I did attend a garden party, I would refer to all sorts of things as delightful and also eat tiny cucumber sandwiches) but in describing this story - delightful is quite an apt term.
Oh, I missed you SO MUCH. I really love Stardust, even though most people prefer his other novels.
For things a bit like it (whimsical and delightful and not really at all like epic fantasy), I think his really big influence was Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist (OOP), though there's also some resemblance to Lord Dunsany's novels, notably The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Charwoman's Shadow (which for some weird reason has a schlock horror novel cover, even though it would have been much better off with a Pre-Raphaelite painting, like The King of Elfland's Daughter).
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:05 am (UTC)Oh, I missed you SO MUCH. I really love Stardust, even though most people prefer his other novels.
For things a bit like it (whimsical and delightful and not really at all like epic fantasy), I think his really big influence was Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist (OOP), though there's also some resemblance to Lord Dunsany's novels, notably The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Charwoman's Shadow (which for some weird reason has a schlock horror novel cover, even though it would have been much better off with a Pre-Raphaelite painting, like The King of Elfland's Daughter).