Stardust: The Gift Edition

If nothing more than his writing, I absolutely enjoy listening to his voice. They are perfectly matched.

My favorite so far of what I’ve read by this author. His way of writing makes me feel swept away just reading the words but having him read it to you in the audiobook is a double dose of magical.

Adorable!!
In an interview at the end of the recording, The author reveals the process of Reading for the audiobook And also very interesting insights on his creation process.

It just wasn't engaging enough to keep my attention. Decent story, the author is talented, but it was really pretty boring.

I really liked it but I had so trouble really getting into it for some reason.

I love this book! Tristan died in this book, but I didn't cry! His star lived past his death.

I liked Tristan from the beginning, and followed his adventures with great interest. I also liked his star. I really didn't like Victoria.

I read this book on October 4th, 2022. I thought Neil Gaiman did a fantastic job performing this story! I thoroughly enjoyed his narration.

Wonderfully written, fantastic tale. Best adult fairy tale I've read in a while.

This is a great story. The audiobook is very well read.

Fun reading, imaginative. Another wonderful book by Neil Gaimen!

This is indeed a fairy tale for adults. The book has large type and a quick prose that make it feel like a kids tale, and yet there are touches of violence and sexuality to push it back to the adult side. It's not gratuitous, but just enough that it actually feels more real. It's a fairy tale, but it's not completely sugarcoated, and I found that refreshing.

A fairy tale for grownups. Tristran Thorne sets out on a quest into the land of faerie to fetch a fallen star for his beloved. The star turns out to be a person and they have many adventures on their way back to our world. I really enjoyed this book. The ending wasn't such a surprise but the pleasure is more in the telling than in a great reveal. The writing style is very much like a children's book, with a sort of "gather round" feeling, but the story itself is a little darker and more satisfying for grownups.

not a horrible story, but not what i'd think of as gaiman quality... seems to have been written to create a world worthy of being mined for sequels and prequels... once he stopped writing in poor elizabethan gothic, with commas, more commas, then still more commas, the story felt stronger and more alive...

Neil Gaiman is a master of storytelling.

A nearly perfect story. It takes you back to being a kid listening to an adult tell you a story, which I think Neil Gaiman was going for in this "adult fairy tale." Would definitely recommend the audiobook.

I read this book back in 2008, through bookcrossing.

I found the end a bit disappointing. It is a deconstruction of a typical boy meets girl fairy tale, with some twists on the clichés.

I liked the book, but after all the compliments I heard to Gaiman's writing I was disappointed. But I still wanted to read more of his books, because I love all the little, I guess I could call it easter eggs (little references dropped around the world). I guess that those little twist on the clichés and easter egg dropping are what makes me want to read more and more...

One note that I have in my bookcrossing entry is about comparing the book to the movie: Can't be done!

I saw the movie first and i liked it (I'm a fan of Claire Danes).
And when I read the book I found a totally different story. The movie ends before the end of the book, at the and lived happily ever after and the book has a epilogue, that gives a little about the ever after part, shedding a new light on the characters and their motivation.

And De Niro's Character isn't in the book, and he was one of the best parts of the movie... Hard to beat De Niro dancing in lady's clothes (and with a little heart shaped beauty mark on his cheek) :D

As magical and well-written as anything Neil Gaiman writes. Beautiful prose and a wonderful story. Will not disappoint.

The audio is professionally done. The reader is the author, so there’s no wonder why he reads with perfect delivery. A wonderful reading of a good/great book.

Good fantasy novel. I read the regular novel, not the graphic version.

This is my favorite Neil Gaiman book--a beautifully written and imaginative fairy tale with original characters. Yay!

Excellent fantasy.

I listened to a full cast recording and it was genuinely excellent. Full of set pieces that are touching and funny by turns. Yes, there's a love story, but it doesn't get in the way of the rest of the adventure. While there were a lot of characters to keep straight, the voices were all sufficiently different that it was possible to identify who was speaking without too much intervention from the narrator. In this format there was little in the way of description, such that you can, in a sense, invent your own landscape for the most part and picture the characters yourself. As someone with no visual imagination, that's a drawback, so I wonder if in novel or graphic novel format I might get something different from this. As it was I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent in Faerie.

Great story line, enjoyable characters. All in all a great read. And the movie they made out of it wasn't half bad.

A somewhat odd fairytale, but a good one.

This is the first time, I'd read Stardust. Usually I like to read the book then see the film if I liked the book. I almost always like the book better then the film. For some reason, I hadn't known the film was written by Gaiman or I'd have read it first. I really liked the movie, and now many years later when have finally read the book, and enjoyed the adult fairy tale very much. It's fairly short so the characters don't get a lot of development side from the main two, but that's alright a fairy tale is more about the story than the character development and the main character does indeed grow and change as he moves through the story.

But someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again
C.S. Lewis

And one more!!!

Stardust, a novel by Neil Gaiman, overflows with stardust on all its pages. The beginning didn't grab me much, but then the reading became continuous, with the relentless passage of the adventure at full speed.

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What will happen when young Tristan Thorn embarks on a journey to the Land of the Fairies with the goal of obtaining a star for his beloved that they saw fall together one night? Will he succeed, or perhaps perish along the way?
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I'll leave you in suspense...? (Translated from Spanish)

An utterly charming adult fairy tale, magnificently read by Neil himself.Despite promises of smut in one negative review, nipples appear only once and briefly at that.

adult fantasy fiction (magic, faery world, fairy tales)
Count on Neil Gaiman for a great story. There is one love scene at the beginning, and some violence by/against unicorns, but this would also suit older teens.

A fun, entertaining, ridiculous portal fantasy story of a young man entering a magical world to catch a falling star. The story is great with many exciting characters. There is action, romance, magic, and character growth all in this short novel. It is a fantastic book that I highly recommend, especially for fans of Neil Gaiman.

I ADORED this book. It's a fairy tale that incorporates other fairy tales, and it was just lovely.