Brief Lives

Brief Lives (Book VII of The Sandman Collected Library)

256 pages

English language

Published Sept. 24, 1999

ISBN:
978-1-56389-137-3
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A comic saga that chronicles the efforts of Delirium and her brother, Dream, to journey through the world of the waking in an effort to locate their missing sibling, Destruction.

8 editions

A masterpiece

Rereading Sandman for the first time in 20 years, it is so far my favorite volume, probably because it's one narrative unit centering around Dream and his family.

Previous volumes had amazing stories too, but there was a lack of unity in some of them (not to mention a lack of the main character). Yet, a lot of these previous stories were necessary to establish a lot of the things that make this one story as well as the following ones the masterpieces that they are. As, if I remember well, each volume gets better than the previous one at this point.

Can't wait to read volume 8 again. Probably in a few days.

A good friend, revisited

Recently re-read the entire series, prompted (of course) by the Netflix adaptation. How immense the scope of this is, and yet the core storyline is actually pretty tight. Would recommend to anyone (though you've probably read it already, right?)

Review of 'The Brief Lives' on 'Goodreads'

Fem och ett halvt år och den hittills enda säsongen av Netflix-serien sedan jag läste om [b:Fables & Reflections|25106|Fables & Reflections (The Sandman, #6)|Neil Gaiman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1311961999l/25106.SY75.jpg|181895] i min ambition att återuppleva Sandman. Kanske lite väl länge för att recensionerna ska kunna haka i varandra på ett bra sätt? Jag fick kämpa emot för att inte sluta läsa och börja bläddra i de tidigare volymerna för att minnas vad som hänt tidigare.

Jag misstänker att min "paus" - nej, jag hade faktiskt inte tänkt fortsätta läsa efter F&R; det var Netflix-serien som fick mig att ta fram den här volymen ut bokhyllan, så "paus" inom citationstecken är korrekt - kanske handlade om det jag skrev i den recensionen - om en slags besvikelse inför vad jag kände/känner som ett slags utanpåverk. Ett Gaimanskt briljerande med stora kunskaper i mytologier, legender och religiösa berättelser, men utan att egentligen säga något särskilt. …

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