Fragile Things
This is a stunning collection of short stories by acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. His distinctive genius has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With The SandmanNeil Gaiman created one of the most sophisticated, intelligent, and influential graphic novel series of our time. Now after the recent success of his latest novel Anansi Boys, Gaiman has produced Fragile Things, his second collection of short fiction. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul. This extraordinary compilation reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.
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What Hacker News says
- Non-fiction:
* 'Better' by Atul Gawande (also his 'Complications' and of course 'The Checklist Manifesto')
* 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.
Fiction:
* 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders' by Neil Gaiman
* 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss
Graphic novels ("comics"):
* 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore
* 'Promethea' by Alan Moore (actually I'm halfway through this, and loving every bit of it)
Special mentions:
* 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big' by Scott Adams - I only gave this a 4-star rating on Goodreads when I finished it, but I'm finding that I'm usefully applying more and more of the things I learnt from this book as the months go by.
* 'Yoga Benefits Are in Breathing Less' by Artour Rakhimov - to be considered more of an article, taught me useful stuff about O2/CO2 balance in the body, their respective effects, and hence ultimately the effects of different rates of breathing.
- Neil Gaiman (in "Goliath," from the Matrix comic series, collected later in his "Fragile Things" anthology) said that humans linked to the Matrix were used as processors, not batteries.
This guy has a link to a PDF, might be better copies out there somewhere: https://english97withclay.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/read-goli...
