In this collection, Gaiman is daring, taking on explicit sex, politics, pornography, and even sex change. filled with things with too many legs and other things with no legs at all.” It’s the little things like referring to crabs and fish as “. This ability also really stood out to me in a different book - “The Ocean at the End of the Lane." I can’t help but admire his mind. A good example of this is “The Price”, where Gaiman story about stray cats turns from reality to supernatural in an instant. He's so deft with his word choice that these transitions happen with ease. One moment the story feels like an honest recollection of his past, and the next we're interacting with angels, trolls, and werewolves. One of my favored aspects of Gaiman is his ability to slip seamlessly between realism and fantasy. Some of my preferences were “Chivalry”, “Changes”, “We Can Get Them for You Wholesale," and “Snow, Glass, Apples." I enjoyed a majority of these stories and Gaiman continues to be one of my favorite authors. It’s not his best work, but as a collection it’s imaginative and provocative. They run the gamut from sci-fi to very short parables to fantasy to magical realism. Gaiman is literary bacon - short stories, young adult, fantasy, adult fiction - he’s good in anything! “Smoke and Mirrors” is a collection of 30 or so short stories.
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