Search - Stardust (P.S.)

I really enjoyed "Coraline", so I decided to try "Stardust" and was met with a big disappointment. It would have been really good but a few chapters in there was sexual content and I stopped reading and returned it. Needless to say I no longer read Neil Gaiman's books.

It's written in prose style so if you are not into that you may not like it. The prose gives it that extra flair and detail, and even with that it's a very fast read. An excellent fairy story for adults.

This was a charming, quick story of self-growth and achieving adulthood, all done up in a nifty magical world. There's humor there, too, and it's quite engaging. Fun.

I read this book almost immediately after seeing the movie; it's not clear to me how much of my good feeling is from attaching the words to the movie. There were few differences between the two; you can either take that to mean that the movie did a good job of following the book, or that the book adds damn little to what the movie presents. It is clear that Gaiman has the knack for writing short novels (or novellas) that can easily be transformed into screenplays, and this is one of those.

4 of 5 stars.