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| Original Title: | The Sandman: A Game of You |
| ISBN: | 1563890933 (ISBN13: 9781563890932) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Sandman #5, Thessaly #0 |
| Characters: | Dream of the Endless |
Neil Gaiman
Hardcover | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.43 | 49937 Users | 1437 Reviews
Details Of Books A Game of You (The Sandman #5)
| Title | : | A Game of You (The Sandman #5) |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | March 10th 1999 by Vertigo (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Graphic Novels Comics. Comic Book |
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Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine, and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus himself and you get this fifth installment of the Sandman series. This story stars Barbie, who first makes an appearance in The Doll's House, who here finds herself a princess in a vivid dreamworld. collecting The Sandman #32–37Rating Of Books A Game of You (The Sandman #5)
Ratings: 4.43 From 49937 Users | 1437 ReviewsColumn Of Books A Game of You (The Sandman #5)
Sandman continues to confound and confusticate, though thats good thing in this instance. This volume took a sharp left turn from the last one, with a minor character taking center stage and Dream playing only a small supporting role. Its a little bit like watching a Ghostbusters spinoff where Louis Tully gets lead billing and Peter Venkman shows up to crack a few jokes toward the end before high-fiving Slimer in a closing freeze frame (which, incidentally, is a spinoff Id watch the crap out
The Sandman series goes from strength to strength, capable of reinventing itself with each new collection. Morpheus is mostly absent at the start of A Game of You , but that's all right, as the new characters prove interesting enough without his presence. The story takes place partly in a New York tenement, peopled with oddball characters that for some reason reminded me of Will Eisner, and partly in a fantasy realm that is lost in a far corner of Morpheus' Dreamcountry. Connecting the two is
I love Barbie. I love Wanda. I love Thessaly.Truly, this was one hell of a tightly-woven story including inner-worlds, cuckoo birds, ancient witches, pulling down the moon, and death.There's no way in hell that I could really boil it down to essentials. As a whole it seriously rocks and hits me in the feels. Sexual identity and childhood and babies is only a part of it. Being wise and forgiving is only a part of it.Hell, I see that holy-bitch at Wanda's funeral and I see her just acting in her
"It's like, that people... well, that everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody, all of the people in the whole world -- no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe."This volume is pretty much a self-contained story, with no flashing to different time periods with different characters or inserting separate stories in-between another
I'll just launch right into it. A Game of You centers on a quintet of (mostly) mortal women sharing an apartment building in New York, two of whom are lesbians, one of whom is trans, one of whom is cishet, and the last of whom is an ageless witch. The cishet woman, Barbie, is the protagonist, or at least the person most of the action centers on; the trans woman, Wanda, is arguably the emotional core. For those not already in the loop, I'll also remind you that our author is a cishet man, and
This came into my bookstore and I hadn't read it in a couple years, plus it's the one with the transwoman in it, and I was feeling emotionally vulnerable. So bring it on! So... yeah. So when I was a little kid I read this and it was like, I was a baby transsexual and all I knew about it was that I'd better not talk about it or admit it to myself or to anybody else. So this book touched me in kind of a weird place and I was SUPER stoked that it treated a transwoman as a human being and, y'know,
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